There are complications to soul fevers as well as physical fevers, ramifications that we want to avoid. Little kids, under seven, will work themselves right into a storm of some sort unless or until their unease is acknowledged. Too young to regulate their emotions, they will act out until everyone, including the cat or dog, has felt the effects. As children get older they learn how to repress painful feelings … but not entirely, or for long. Especially in adolescence, unprocessed feelings can surface in all manner of seemingly unrelated ways: an extreme haircut, severed friendships, behavior
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