Holiday Reunion

As I travel across america, visiting family for the holidays, I also revisit all those family feelings that I have put in the back closet since my last visit.

This time, however, I decided to actually face all my judgments of my upbringing and where I came from, and all the conflicts and personalities in my family I have looked down on. Instead of continuing to making myself stronger, independent or better than - wooh a lot of energy! - I decided to actually love and accept all the things I did NOT like about where, and who, I am from. I experienced my heart literally melting, feeling a deep opening within, tears welling, space opened in my back, and and I began breathing deeply and smoothly.

I realized as I opened to love these different aspects of my family, I was actually opening to love a deeper part of who I am. I was actually loving myself at such a deep level beyond what I have ever reached before. This is from someone who leads meditations in transforming core beliefs about love! I feel tears of gratitude and joy for this deep healing!

And although, I choose a different life now, I now also feel a strength and confidence, support and the gifts that my upbringing and family have given me!

Truly, Happy Holidays!