Inner Child & Subconscious Work

"I remember being in the gym, in the locker room, curled up in a ball, crying. Memories from when I was seven years old came up. I remember hitting my head and pulling my hair out, screaming at God, why am I here? If my mom doesn't love me, why am I on this planet? Then I got into using substances, and all of a sudden I felt better about myself. Using substances made me feel better about who I was, and I didn't even know it. I was getting approval from other people, but I had no idea who I was. I just went through this cycle. When I got clean, I had buried a lot of that, so it started coming up. We take people just like myself, and when these things happen, they don't know what to do."