Yesterday we talked about pain —
how it introduces us to the world before language, before memory, before identity.
But today I want to remind you of something most people never consider:
You survived pain long before you ever understood pain.
You survived it as a child.
And that matters.
Because a child doesn’t have language, resources, control, or protection…
but somehow, by divine intelligence woven into the soul,
a child knows how to:
• read danger,
• shift identity to stay safe,
• scan environments,
• adapt emotionally,
• hide brilliance to avoid harm,
• shrink or expand to survive,
• find comfort in small things,
• and hold hope in the darkest moments.
People forget this:
The most brilliant, intelligent, strategic version of you
was already working before you even knew the word “trauma.”
As adults, the things that make us want to give up —
the heartbreaks, the losses, the betrayals, the disappointments —
are the very same things a child faced with courage and instinctive wisdom.
A child doesn’t collapse.
A child innovates to stay alive.
A child doesn’t quit.
A child shape-shifts to keep going.
A child doesn’t intellectualize pain.
A child navigates pain with raw, God-given brilliance.
So hear me:
The version of you that survived childhood
is more powerful than the version of you that fears adulthood.
If you could access even a fraction of that instinctive intelligence again —
the wisdom that kept you alive,
the creativity that helped you adapt,
the intuition that knew how to decode danger,
the flexibility that allowed you to find safety in chaos —
you would become unstoppable.
Absolutely unstoppable.
What broke your childhood didn’t break your brilliance.
It trained it.
What hurt you didn’t destroy you.
It sharpened you.
And if you take the strength of the child you once were
and combine it with the awareness of the adult you have become…
you will heal yourself,
reparent yourself,
reclaim yourself,
and rise into a life so powerful
that your past won’t even recognize you.
So today, I want you to remember:
✨ That child is not gone.
✨ That brilliance is not gone.
✨ That survival wisdom is not gone.
✨ That courage is not gone.
It is all still inside you —
waiting for you to remember who you were
before the world began teaching you fear, limitation, and doubt.
Return to that child.
Honor that child.
Learn from that child.
Because the moment you reconnect with that version of you,
your future opens, your healing accelerates, and your life transforms.
You were born brilliant.
Born powerful.
Born extraordinary.
And nothing — not even pain — has ever been strong enough to take that away.