The Alternative Way We Could Have Met
I had to connect with my shadow-self to get to my truth, but I feel like every time I do, I am healing my soul.
When Healthy & Happy is Threatening
This healthy, happy, and beautiful individual was coming into her own and doing her own thing – Independence. Rather than embracing this amazing person Dear Alexa was becoming, mom successfully squashed her happiness.
Step Away from the Cocoa Puffs
You cannot change the alienation experience. You can only take tender loving care of yourself, so you are the healthy and happy parent your children return to.
How can you heal when you don’t know what you’re healing from?
Dropping the illusion that we can fix it, free’s us to let this experience unfold. This non-attachment allows us to move past the fear of being hated and into a far more empowered space of understanding the tender truth behind the façade of hate.
Having Tea with our Demons
We heal our soul by loving and accepting every fragmented part – Loving our Whole Self unconditionally.
1 Step forward – 3 Steps back
Every positive experience with Dad is typically followed by a few setbacks when mom senses your happiness.
A Letter to “Dear Alexa” – Why we hold some things back
If I could give you one solid piece of advice, it would be to focus on who you want to be and what you want to create in your life. Explore – Discover – Create. No matter what wild dream you invent, your Dad and I want to help you achieve it.
Allowing things to unfold naturally
Sometimes a good parent needs to step back and simply love and support an amazing daughter’s budding ideas and choices. Trust that one day she’ll be making plans to spend time with us – All the wiser for having this experience.
BRAVA GIRL!
To now know that you are already recognizing alienation tactics and learning how to set healthy personal boundaries at the tender age of 14 makes my heart sing!
Failures and consequences may suck… But consider the alternative
Allowing kids to fail doesn’t mean we’re bad parents. It means we’re showing them that they have every resource available within themselves to pick themselves up and go again.
Growth Experiences
Can we skip difficult growth experiences? Or does our avoidance only delay and magnify the discomfort we naturally experience while growing into the people we want to become.