Bedtime stories work forever....
My Sweet Niece Ellie. My own heart. It's a shame you can't remember your earliest interactions with the people who loved you first . If you could, you would remember a time in your life when you could do no wrong and everything you did was wonderful to someone. Although you can't remember all the details from then... You still can use the experience to gain perspective. Let's do something... Let's pretend. Pretend like you can remember what it was like to be three years old. Your imagination is just getting fired up at that age. Making story time, one of your favorite things. For a lot of reasons... But mostly because you are the center of someone's universe at that age (hopefully). The people who read to you as a child may not have known it then but they gave you an incredible power. With their verbal guidance, you are able to live inside the stories you were being told. When you were 3 years old you were a blank slate of possible outcomes....