Katherine Woodward Thomas

The thing about the I'm not good enough, and that is the most pervasive one, although the second runner up is I'm alone.

Everything that is not working, if I'm not getting fed properly, people are ignoring my needs.

If I'm aware that my mother didn't want to be pregnant with me, I might form a self-sense of I'm not wanted.

Absolutely.

And it happens in the womb.

You actually cannot progress in your life when you are making a home of victimization.

So you want to look at how is I the source of it?

Who was I being that allowed that to happen?

You have to kind of put your big girl, big boy panties on and really show up for yourself.

You can't create from victimhood.

The first entry to creativity is giving up victimization.

Well, when we're young, our, our, our,

task is to form a sense of self and to understand who we are for others and where we fit into this world.

And so when you're young and you can't do things for yourself and you have

Parents who are trying their best or you know Overburdened or whatever and so there may be older siblings who can do things that you cannot do There's a lot of ways that we would get the message.

It's somehow I'm small Somehow I don't have the power that I need to do the things that I would need to do.

I can't get what I want also children take on the emotional Troubles of their parents.

So if their parents are depressed and they can't fix their parent or

or their parent is an alcoholic.

They can't fix that.