I frequently come across examples of how unprocessed feelings associated with a distressing event or circumstances are passed down...

If, as children, we felt repeatedly hurt , humiliated, abandoned, suffocated or ignored by someone close to us and on whom we depended...

Are you still living your life according to a ‘script’ or set of rules about how to be in the world that you first put together when you were four-years-old? Theories of Transactional Analysis (developed by Eric Berne) suggest that many of us are.   I find this theory can be particularly useful in helping people break patterns of behaviour that might be puzzling, distressing or simply out of awareness. For example, if you worked out as a young child that showing your anger t