It's easier to avoid lifelong issues, but often avoidance of those issues leads to other problems. I thought of this as a friend recounted teaching from the book, US, a book about relationships. My friend told me that the book details so many childhood events that significantly affected people's relationships later on.
It's true that events occurred to us as children that impact us both positively and negatively today. Often the negative events are not so much the result of purposeful harm or hurt, but instead the byproduct of a changing world and evolving mindsets. For example when I was young the restrictions for young girls were much greater than they are today. In some ways women of my era were harmed and hurt by those restrictions and it's a process to let go of those restrictions to grow with greater health and positivity.
What childhood events negatively affect you today? How can you re-look at those events in order to undo their negative grasp on your life?
As I thought about this, I thought about childhood traditions that didn't serve me well. Traditions, which at the time were widely embraced, but traditions that have since been found to be negative with regard to good, healthy living.
Rather than promote these traditions in my life or the lives of others today, I'm thinking about how we can update those traditions in healthier ways.
Changing and remaking the past is a good way to better the future. Onward.