Can relying on 'love' and traditional family values, structures and rules alone  be enough to sustain our modern day relationships and families? What is it like to have attuned connection, presence, awareness in a relationship?
What does it mean to work on healthy ways of communicating? How well are you at resolving confilicts?

Stress and trauma isn't all in overt and abusive ways that we may initially think of it. We are frequently in an energy exchange, and passing our own unhealed stresses and pain to others. Oftentimes it can be so subtle and in all sorts of small ways, and a lot of the time, if we're not internalising our pain, it'll be the people we love the most that can take the brunt. We're mostly unknowing of this, not because we're wanting to be, but because we may be so distracted and frazzled from our busy lives, or we've simply not taken a moment to explore or think about it. It's a social/cultural norm and pre-conditioning to be wrapped up inside of our own heads and lived experience, rather than an open hearted, self-compassionate and aware empatethic state. We may not always notice, but we'll so often be acting out of our own fears, desires, habits or survival modes from unconcious tactics and strategies at any given time. When deciding to mindfully begin breaking the cycles of our own stresses, tensions, suffering and trauma, we're re-learning to experience how it is to feel again. How it is to be with ourselves and fully process our life and emotions in the best ways we can, within the present moment as much as we can. And how it is we can extend our love outwards to those around us, especially those who truly deserve our love, from the inside out.

"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination"
Maya Angelou
 

Has there been a forgetting of how to love or how to be loved for you? Many of us at somepoint along our life's journey may end up discovering that to be in a loving-kind relationship with each other, it's a little more, well - complicted and nuanced than we may have intially first thought it would be, or how we may have imagining it was going to be.

It's all good! I'm certainly not here to pass judgement, or to shift blame, shame or critism onto you or anyone. Why don't we begin in a place that's a little more non-threatening and more considered and compassionate.

A place where we're all in this together, and we're all re-learning 'how to be'.
 

I invite you to take a momet to pause, observe and notice - have a look around. Who is emotionally aware and attuned? Who's practicing being present? Who's building and developing deeply connected loving and kind relationships with each other? Who's mindfully modelling the attitudes, behaviours and values they wish for their child to learn?

Has it just been me, or have we been moving further away from knowing how to be with ourselves? And are we present and aware how we are being and showing up for our own children? I simply invite us to take a gentle, kind and compassionate non-judgemental look together, by exploring, unpacking and perhaps re-adjusting and remembering how we could actually be together -  and how it is we want to be together. Perhaps beginning with greater emotional awareness, presence and safety.

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