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I've been reading three different books, one of which is John Bradshaw's Home Coming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child. I finally feel like I'm actually in touch with my inner child who is not at all happy I might add. It seems that our intellectual intelligence and our emotional intelligence to do not necessarily mature at the same rate. Who knew!! It would also seem that stunted emotional intelligence is possibly at the root of a great many emotional outbursts amongst the members of the human race—myself, being a prime example—and my current truth that week was that I was feeling about four years old emotionally. I'm sure you can imagine my dismay and the uncomfortableness in my life considering I am a few months short of turning sixty. Eeeeeekk! Fortunately, I was going through this childlike display alone in the comfort of my home.
People who go on longer fasts in order to detoxify their bodies, often experience a series of events that they call a 'healing event' or a 'healing crisis.' Me, I just call it a detox dump since that is what the body is doing—dumping a load of toxins. What I have discovered is that you can do a detox dump emotionally as well. And that, my friends, is where I found myself, in the middle of an emotional healing crisis/event minus the fasting. The artwork "Inner Child" is what I did to post for the challenge.
I have discovered within myself a rather strong passion for art as therapy. I've pretty much used art in this manner for most of my life but didn't really think about sharing it with others too much. Hence, this post on my blog. There will be more of these coming. I hope that others will be encouraged to do a little art therapy of their own.
