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Your Childhood Installed the Alarm; Adulthood Must Test It | Episode 432

Your Childhood Installed the Alarm; Adulthood Must Test It | Episode 43222 sept17 min

Many of our emotional patterns were formed before we were old enough to understand what was happening. We learned what love, conflict, trust, danger, and security looked like by watching the people around us. Those early experiences helped build our internal alarm systems—but not every alarm remains properly calibrated. Anger may tell us that we perceive an injustice. Fear may tell us that we sense danger. Sadness may tell us that something meaningful feels threatened. These emotions deserve ...