I have often struggled with the issue of being ‘the authentic me’ when in dialogue with members of my family of origin.
The issue of ‘Is all of me welcome here?’ is always at the back of my mind. Somewhere along my life journey, I came to believe that I had to censor being myself in order to be fully accepted. And somewhere along that journey, that belief became – ‘that’s just the way it is’.
For a long time that approach was satisfactory, however over the past few years, it has been a hard struggle to maintain the facade of it all. In most cases, I have found that I resort to a default position of putting my head in the sand, hoping that the situation goes away… but sadly, it does not…. And like Bill Murray’s character in ‘Groundhog Day’ I find myself reliving an exhausting and unfulfilling scenario. More
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