Why do we throw teens in the trash?
Most of us know about the inner child—that wonder-filled, possibly wounded part of ourselves that we’ve been encouraged to nurture and heal through therapy and popular psychology.
We've been told over and over that childhood underpins the psychology of us as adults. It’s the primary lens we use, *they* say, to understand how our earliest conditioning affects the way we navigate day-to-day reality.
But notice what's missing: we leapfrog from childhood to adulthood, as if nothing significant or meaningful happens in between.
For decades, only childhood and adulthood have rented a room in our collective consciousness.
Existentially, we have erased adolescence from our adult awareness… where teenagehood isn't a recognized word. Where teens are routinely belittled behind hurtful humor, labeled problematic or troubled. Where blowing up the middle stage of human development barely registers on the Richter scale of seismic outrage.
Today, in our hyperconnected digital landscape, a quick search reveals the inner teenager peeking above the crevices of dismissal: 19 online articles focused exclusively on "Healing Your Inner Teenager."
Fantastic!
At last the Inner Teen has landed in our collective awareness…
… except wait… Where?
Turns out, once again, they’re relegated to a dusty corner; this time blatantly marked BROKEN: NEEDS REPAIR.
True to our "adolescents are aliens" assumptions, this inner teenager only gets attention because they're unwell, toxic, and need adult intervention to guide them away from their apparently damaging teen years.
Are we noticing a pattern here?
Our (once-a-teenager-themselves) adult-reflex insists on pathologizing the very years that minted who we are now, today: the raw, electric time when we consciously touched the shifting tectonic plates of who we wanted to be when the true beginnings of our adult creativity began calling to us.
But, why this irrational, adult ignorance surrounding 7 to 10 years of our lives?
What’s really going on here?
I Have A Theory
And it’s the bedrock of A Slice of Orange, A Pinch of Sky where I challenge the innocent lie that adult creativity begins in childhood, and teenagers are broken.
Where I map the forgotten territory of your Inner Teen and reveal why this electric, uncompromising part of you holds the clues to a trove of Radical Creativity that no inner child work can decipher.
Radical Creativity: a trans-dimensional presence actively seeking to work with and through us. A reimagining of everyday creativity so we pilgrimage beyond creativity-as-intuition and learn to navigate the fertile landscape of creativity-as-intentional-present-awareness.
What if Radical Creativity is more than an idea, an intellectual paradigm?
What if it's an existential presence—a defined form, a vital pulse of Life actively seeking embodiment with and through human expression?
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