Deepest healing happens when we tend to our most vulnerable place inside of us. The one we learned to avoid and run away from. The one we don't want to go to because it's lonely, dark, and empty. It all makes sense. We most likely spent years avoiding that place, building a mechanism to keep ourselves from ending up there. Our nervous system reacts if we are at risk of entering that place. We protest, get big, or shut down and withdraw. We stay in our heads, or cover the pain