Wow! I just saw this saying and got really excited. How many of us are carrying around pasts that are less than ideal (to be kind about it)? Maybe you had a rotten childhood. Maybe terrible things happened.
Part of what we do in therapy is we "reinterpret the past." If you think about it, if you grew up being sad, lonely, and/or angry at your family dynamics or due to events in your life, you experienced those things at the age when they happened. For example, let's say you had a sibling that bullied you or your parents didn't give you what you needed. Your memory of those events are from say 5 to 18? Our brains are not fully formed until we are 25.
It could very well be that if you look back as an adult on what happened you can have a much better understanding of what was going on at the time. You can do this with a trusted friend or a therapist. Think about what happened as if you were pulling a camera back to get a larger perspective. You may see things very differently and take some of the sting out of your history through a deeper understanding.
