Drew Barrymore isn’t any stranger to the highlight, however today, she’s shining inward — reflecting on the more durable chapters of her life.
“I think I’m finally getting to a place where I can look back more,” Barrymore shared on a Tuesday episode of the “Drew Barrymore Show.”
The actor, who’s been within the public eye since starring in a business at 11 months previous, mirrored on her childhood in Hollywood — a time marked by extra movement than mindfulness.
“Since I was a kid, I’ve just been running, and I never stopped running,” she stated. “And we’re all go, go, go, we’re all working so hard to figure things out, grow, live life.”
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Barrymore then opened up concerning the relentless strain to get all the pieces finished and be all the pieces to everybody.
“Sometimes the permission, just the word permission, to slow down is something, since childhood, I have not really understood,” she stated tearfully.
Barrymore shared the second of reflection alongside buddy and fellow actor Valerie Bertinelli, who praised Barrymore for lastly giving herself house to pause and replicate — to not retreat, however to course of.
“I think that’s a really important thing for all of us to be able to do, not only stop running away from things, and not necessarily running towards something, but just being able to walk away and reflect and appreciate, and hold with that all the trauma… and also hold with it all the joy that comes with it,” Bertinelli stated.
“And instead of trying to purge trauma from our system, maybe just sit next to it where it’s not an enemy any longer. And you can reflect and say, ‘This is helped make me made me who I am today.’”
