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Damon Brown
July 23, 2025

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At one particular moment, she recalls telling her therapist the urgent need to heal her six-year-old self.

That rebellious, neglected child in a highly-abusive household.

The one that cursed like a sailor.

The kid ready for a fight.

Viola’s therapist pushed back immediately.

The young, vibrant, unstoppable child Viola didn’t need to be healed.

The 55-year-old one needed the help to love herself.

The six-year old is the unflappable one that got her here! 👧🏾

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If we are lucky enough to live another day, then we are wiser than we’ve ever been before.

And it’s easy to believe that our younger, more ignorant self was, well, dumb.

How could she not see that coming?

Why did he believe in that myth?

What were they thinking?

In reality, there is something we knew in our hearts that helped us survive to today.

It doesn’t matter whether we now believe something else or not.

And what if, in our new wisdom, we left something behind?

Underneath the pain and the shame

A diamond within the trauma

What if you took the time to go retrieve it?

And to forgive your past self along the way?🥛

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