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The inner issues that destroy love and sabotage our lives

Every one of us has a childhood hurt that destroys love and sabotages our lives. Fortunately, this hurt can be found and removed. Here is how this hurt gets created:

When we were young children, we were pure love. We were happy, alive, and free, but we were born into a world that suppresses this state. As a result, we got hurt and we got hurt a lot. We experienced rejection, invalidation, and painful losses of love. As little children, the only way we could explain these painful losses of love was to blame ourselves. “Clearly I’m the problem.”

In a moment of deep hurt, we decided that we were worthless, not good enough, not worth loving, a failure, or in some other way, “not okay.” It wasn’t the truth, but in the eyes of a little child, it became our truth. It was the only explanation that made since at the time.
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