Beyond the Veil of Illusion

Seeing through the façade

Monday: Seeing the inner child in everyone

Monday’s prompt sparked a profound realization deep within me about a reason I have often found relationships to be challenging.

I think for a very long time I have seen underneath the ways people present themselves into the true essence of who they are.

We all have within us an inner child yearning to be seen, understood and nurtured. I see this in other people, and I truly want to uplift them.

It may be one of the main contributing reasons as to why I have always found it hard to find empathy and compassion for myself. Long before I could learn how to give this to myself I naturally had it deeply for other people.

I believed in the past giving all my energy to others and leaving nothing for myself was kind and loving of me. Though after a long time spent soul searching I have truly seen how self-destructive and toxic this self-denial of love can be.

All along I had been placing myself in a position of being above or below other people, choosing to take part in the power games and the round and round playing out of trauma- both my own and other peoples.

When someone treats me badly still to this day I can reason with the idea they may not even be consciously doing it to hurt me, and chances are they aren’t.

I have to remind myself I can hold this higher perspective though and still place importance on self-preservation.

Having boundaries and protecting my inner child is more important to prioritize than the desire to help uplift others in who they are. Once I tend to myself, I can always offer all the rest of what I have to give too.

A powerful new path is being paved for me in recognizing that my ability to see others for who they are is a gift and not a burden. I do not need to protect other people’s feelings and well-being at the expense of my growth.

Realizing this has been powerful.

We are all just people living our lives doing the best we can do. There’s no need to feel we must save or rescue anyone in the world. The only person we’re responsible for healing is ourselves. Anything we can do extra to this is a bonus.

A message I received today helped realign me after a crazy week so far of feeling out of control of everything.

Don’t be dragged back into a reality you worked so hard to get out of.

Without the ability to honour and love our true selves, all else feels empty, disappointing, and purposeless (at least this has been my experience of life in the past).

As well as Seeing the inner child in everyone remember to look out for the no. one inner child you can always tune in to and illuminate within yourself.

Don’t let anyone stop you from shining.

Thanks Diana C. for this lovely prompt 💕!