01-17-2009, 11:05 PM
I was doing some familly of origin work with my therapist the other day and it got me thinking about my childhood. To an extent it was a childhood of extremes. To an extent it was fairly idylic, I was brought up in the welsh countryside and remember allways playing cowboys and indians down by the stream. My dad used to gather loads of ferns (Which he used as arrows) and used to hide and throw them at me and my friends. My parents divorced when I was eight and that was pretty traumatic for me cos as a result I saw less and less of my Dad who was kind of a hero for me. When I was 10 I thought it would be a good idea to wear my sisters peach bridesmaid dress to school and do a dance routine in the schoolyard. As you can imagine this went down like a lead brick and meant that I was badly bullied for years to come. Whilst my parents were very comfortably off financially they were not very emotionably available to me as a child which meant that it took me years to finally comming to terms with the fact that im quite emotionaly repressed. My parents were both polititcions throught my chilhood so I allways remember being dragged off to London and elsewhere to go on demonstrations. As a familly we went on wonderfull holidays to canne and America. So all in all I have some wonderfull childhood memories and had it not been for the bullies would be nigh on perfect.
Be interested to hear what youre chilhoods were like?
Be interested to hear what youre chilhoods were like?