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For me, being told to ‘shut up’ has left not only deep marks on my psyche but has also impacted me physically as well. It has massively slowed me down in my vitality and joy of life.

In a therapeutic session with a 50-year-old woman, she finally realised that love and physical pain had not been separate for her until that point. She had always pushed away her pain around the violence she experienced from her father. For the sake of the seemingly loving contact that she so ardently desired as a child, she had accepted the physical violence from him without complaint.

20. Already Depressed while in the Womb

In my therapy practise, I repeatedly see cases in which a child who has just come into existence immediately senses that it is in a cold, rejecting, lifeless womb – a womb that feels hostile to it. The child’s joy of simply being alive is immediately drowned by the sepulchral coldness and the stress and fears of its mother. Already the child’s entire further development is a struggle for survival. The implantation, the growing in the womb, the birth process etc. everything is more a torture than the sheer joy in existence that it should be. It can be that this person never feels safe throughout their whole life and is always afraid that