Inner Child & Subconscious Work

I realized they were a social couple, so they would have friends over, other officers from the base. So I could get to stay up later, past my bedtime, if I could do something really adult, like they would ask me a question that a kid maybe four or five years old shouldn't reasonably be able to answer, and certainly either in German or in English at an adult level, I guess, is the context. And so I would really try to come up with those little jewels and tidbits. I think that was one of the first moments that I realized that if I could do that, I could find little joy in myself. Even in your subconscious, when these positive, self-nurturing thoughts become regular, they help you build a clearer identity around your purpose when you're conscious and interacting with the world. For me, a lot of people define themselves around what society expects or what their parents hoped for them. I've spent enough time with myself and tested these theories, whether I was born to be an athlete or something else.