🌱 Why Listening to Childhood Dreams Can Change Your Life

Behind every adult’s daily to-do list lies a child who once dreamed without limits — to dance, to speak freely, to be seen, to feel alive.

But somewhere along the way, we learned to suppress those longings in order to:

• Fit in

• Be accepted

• Stay safe

According to Stefanie Stahl, author of “The Child in You”, these buried longings — when unacknowledged — can lead to feelings of:

• ⛔ Emptiness

• ⛔ Resentment

• ⛔ Quiet dissatisfaction in adult life

And yet, those dreams still live within us. Not to be fulfilled in the exact same way, but to be honored, integrated, and expressed in ways that bring deeper joy, meaning, and emotional aliveness.

🎯 Neuroscience shows that reconnecting with positive emotional memories activates the prefrontal cortex (associated with planning and motivation) and the reward system of the brain.

🔊 This practice has been widely studied in Positive Psychology (Dr. Martin Seligman) and Narrative Therapy (Michael White) as a tool for building optimism, agency, and emotional resilience.

🎨 DREAMS THAT STILL MATTER: A GUIDED EXERCISE TO RECLAIM YOUR INNER CHILD’S LONGINGS

This is a guided exercise designed to help you uncover your inner child’s desires — not to indulge nostalgia, but to open a pathway toward authentic joy and self-connection.

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🧠 Grounded In:

• Inner Child Work – Stefanie Stahl
• Positive Psychology – Dr. Martin Seligman
• Narrative Therapy – Michael White & David Epston
• Memory Reconsolidation Theory – Dr. Bruce Ecker

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