Exorcism of Childhood Demons: Reclaim Your Mind, Rewire Your Reality

Our personality is fully formed by the age of seven. Think about that for a second. By the time you’re in second grade, the way you react to life, your core fears, and your subconscious programming are locked in. What’s worse? You had zero say in the matter. The environment you were raised in, the people who surrounded you, and the experiences you had shaped you before you even had the self-awareness to question it.

The Ghosts of Your Childhood Are Running the Show

Most people walk around thinking they’re making conscious decisions. They aren’t. Their subconscious—the part of their mind wired for survival—calls the shots, and that wiring is dictated by childhood experiences. Ever wonder why you have irrational fears? Why you overreact to situations that aren’t actually a threat? Why your body tightens up at the thought of conflict, failure, or rejection? That’s childhood trauma at play.

Here’s a brutal truth: Trauma isn’t just the big, obvious stuff like abuse or neglect. It’s the little, everyday moments where your needs weren’t met, where you felt unsafe, unseen, or unworthy. Those moments leave scars, and those scars turn into subconscious beliefs that dictate how you show up in the world.

Shadow Work: Dragging Your Demons Into the Light

Carl Jung called it the “shadow” self—the part of you that exists in the dark, controlling you without your knowledge. You feel it when you self-sabotage. You feel it when you shrink back instead of stepping up. You feel it when you worry about getting fired despite being competent, despite having evidence that you’re valuable. That’s childhood programming hijacking your reality.

The fix? Shadow work. That means pulling your childhood demons into the light, sitting with them, and dismantling the bullshit stories they’ve told you about who you are and what you’re worth.

You think your fear of getting fired is about job security? You think your relationships fail because people can’t be loyal? No. It’s about childhood instability. It’s about a time when security wasn’t guaranteed, when your sense of safety was tied to forces outside of your control. You think your inability to “give fewer fucks” is a personality quirk? No. It’s a survival mechanism—somewhere deep inside, you learned that caring too much was the key to staying safe, to staying accepted, to not being abandoned.

The Cost of Avoiding the Exorcism

Here’s the kicker—if you don’t deal with this, it owns you. Your demons don’t just haunt you; they become you. They dictate how much risk you take, how much success you allow yourself, and how much peace you actually experience.

I recently had a moment of real breakthrough—a moment of enlightenment where everything clicked. And then, life smacked me down. Trauma does that. It makes you afraid of expansion. It tells you that every time you open yourself up to growth, pain will follow. And now? You’re gun-shy. You’re haunted by the idea that if you truly let go, if you fully surrender to your own power, you’ll be punished for it.

That’s the mindfuck—your trauma convinces you that the very thing that could set you free is the thing that will destroy you. So, you hold back. You stay locked in the cage, even though the door is open.

Breaking the Curse

So, what do you do?

1. Question Every Fear – The next time fear grips you—like when you thought a meeting was about being fired but it was actually about a raise—pause and ask: Is this real, or is this a childhood wound playing out? Your mind runs worst-case scenarios because it was trained to. Challenge them.

2. Sit With Your Shadows – Most people run from their demons. Instead, sit with them. Where did this fear originate? Whose voice is actually in your head? Is it your own, or is it an echo from childhood?

3. Rewrite the Script – Reality isn’t happening to you—it’s reflecting you. Your thoughts, beliefs, and emotions shape the external world. If you don’t like what you see, change what you’re projecting.

4. Act As If You’re Free – The mind doesn’t differentiate between imagination and reality. If you act like someone who is fearless, powerful, and untouchable, your brain rewires itself to make that your default state.

5. Recognize the Test – If it’s true that “Jesus doesn’t put you through what you can’t handle,” then maybe every challenge is an invitation to level up. Maybe the universe is saying, Prove you’re ready. The fear, the triggers, the setbacks? They aren’t signs to retreat; they’re signs to push forward.

You Are the Demon AND the Exorcist

Here’s the hard truth—no one is coming to save you. No guru, no coach, no therapist can do the work for you. You are both the possessed and the exorcist. The only way out is through. Face your demons, question your fears, and realize that the thing haunting you isn’t some external force—it’s just an outdated version of you trying to keep you safe.

Let it go.

Because the moment you stop giving a fuck about the past is the moment you finally get to live the future you actually want.

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