CHILDHOOD
SURVIVAL ROLES

Children cannot simply leave the family system. They adapt. One becomes invisible. One becomes clever. One becomes beautiful. One becomes useful. One becomes the child who needs nothing. What begins as survival can slowly become identity.

Childhood Survival Roles - Girl with Book

WHO DID YOU BECOME ?

The child grows up,
but the strategy often comes too.
The names change.
The setting changes.
The nervous system
may still be trying to solve
the same old problem:

do not be abandoned,
do not be consumed,
do not become unlovable.