Raising My Inner Child From The Dread

While I resurrect him in ink

Recently, I’ve come face to face with my inner child in a way that I never quite have before. Coincidentally (or not?), around the same time I started a new webcomic.

Through recent work with Peter Levine’s Somatic Experience therapy, I’ve been slowly making contact with sensations inside me that originated in my childhood.

As I come to know these all-too-familiar feelings and sensations, I can see how they have been relentlessly haranguing me and my subconscious for as long as I can remember.

But now they have stepped into the light.

For decades, these old feelings have covertly spawned disparaging narratives about my worth which I have spent the same decades anxiously trying to disprove, mostly through hard work and success.

Now, something new is happening.