If you traveled to see your family this weekend, I hope that your trip was easier than mine. What should have been a simple trip from Santa Fe to Denver to Philadelphia became a 20-hour odyssey from Santa Fe to Denver to Chicago to Philadelphia, arriving slightly before midnight.
While holidays with family tastes like wine and football, pumpkin pie and gravy, it can also be laden with baggage, more than an airline will check. Fraught with expectation and trepidation, unresolved conflicts and competition, time with family can coerce these feelings to the surface like a cork that eludes our efforts to keep it submerged, popping into our visual field when least expected.
As uncomfortable as these feelings are, they can provide an opportunity to shed light on past insults and build a foundation for a closer, more trusting relationship. Maybe this will be the year to release a past resentment smoldering beneath the surface by offering a new dynamic of listening and loving more generously, showing our family and friends what we learned in the past year about making conscious choices that serve us. Holding them closer to our hearts heals old wounds and gives us the joy of relating more authentically. After all, don’t we all want to be seen and heard? Offering this consideration to others also feeds and nourishes us. This could be the year!
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