At the stages we need to acknowledge that for us it has become common to try to force ourselves to feel and act more mature than we actually are.

At the stages we need to acknowledge that for us it has become common to try to force ourselves to feel and act more mature than we actually are. Because most of us are scared of the wild child's within irrational emotional life, we have  never let our child within "grow up". Our child within s emotional growing pains are just as necessary as our physical or mental growing pains. We experience emotional growing pains when we honestly admit the reality of our child within.

Voicing our raw, immature emotions can be constructive they do need to be expressed in a safe stages environment and studied within a private journal writing process. Our negative emotions are always younger than our current age, formed at a time when we did not rationally understand the truth and sought emotional answers.

We can learn how to release negative emotions in ways that are not destructive to our child within and others by privately admitting to where we "play small" without shame.  Warm, healthy emotions  come after we allow the painful release of negative emotions. Listening to and remembering the times and places where we "arrested" our emotions due to family and societal disapproval, can free us enough to begin the emotional maturation process.