<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # A child often lacks the power to evaluate an... > A child often lacks the power to evaluate an adult's limitation, so the child converts the event into identity: something is wrong with me. Adult healing reopens the case with language, context, evidence, and choices the child did not possess. A later mind can return a sentence that never belonged to the child. **Source:** [[livestreams/Understanding and Releasing Internalized Shame - Workbook|Understanding and Releasing Internalized Shame]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “A child often lacks the power to evaluate an adult's limitation, so the child converts the event into identity: something is wrong with me. Adult healing reopens the case with language, context, evidence, and choices the child did not possess. A later mind can return a sentence that never belonged to the child.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-child-often-lacks-never-belonged-child ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->