Many aspects of your story lie dormant, like by-products of wheat or sugar
manufacture. When wheat and sugar are
processed, all the parts that make the
product perishable or vulnerable to attack
by insects get discarded. What remains is
a bleached substance that pretends to be
a food by providing energy, but has no
real nutritional value, and in fact damages your system. Nevertheless, these are
the products that sell and everybody values them despite the truth about their
real nature and the purely expedient motives behind their manufacture. The same
can be true of your story.
In all likelihood you were, like most of
us, recruited into pretence about what is
the right way to think, feel and behave by
people who had motives and agendas that
had little to do with helping you grow
into an authentic adult, connected and
confident, to honour your true needs and
deeply held beliefs.
You might feel at times that you
emerged from the process of growing up
more bleached and empty than richly
nourished and substantial. Emerging as a
manufactured standardised product certainly ensures life will be safe. It offers
the guarantee that if you ‘chameleon-a ї