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When Your Family Doesn't Get It
You found the path. And your family thinks you found a phase. I remember this happening to me many years ago.
Some of you get jokes at the dinner table. Some get worry dressed up as concern. Some get silence, which is its own answer.
It hurts. Especially because the sensitive one usually turned to this work to heal wounds that started at that same table.
A few things to hold as you continue to walk the path you've chosen.
You do not need their understanding to walk. Understanding is a gift when it comes. It is not a permit.
Do not make them your audience. The fastest way to poison this work is performing it for skeptics, hoping to finally be seen. Your practice is not a case you are building.
Let the results speak on your behalf. Calm where there used to be flooding. Boundaries where there used to be collapse. Steadiness in a crisis. Families ignore explanations. They notice change.
In many families, you are the one who turned around. Of course the ones still walking the other way find it strange. You are moving against a current that took generations to build.
Walk anyway.
Who else is walking this path without family understanding? You are not the only one. This thread is proof.
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