#difficult relatives

There are moments that sound ridiculous when you tell them later.A pig went missing.My mother-in-law cried. She panicked. She wanted my husband to go back immediately because one of the pigs was gone. While we were out for what was supposed to be a family day, the emergency at home became this missing pig.And because panic in that house rarely stays as panic, it quickly turned into suspicion.She…

Ever notice how everybody says the same thing? “I can’t stand my family! I’m nothing like these people!”

How can it be that this has become almost the unspoken standard for typical families? After all, EVERYBODY can’t be that bad, right?

The truth is that this is no coincidence. (Well, nothing in life is, actually.)

The reason why nobody can stand their respective families is simple: familial relationships are purely karmic; they’re ridiculously difficult because they are DESIGNED to be.

Humans incarnate into the physical dimension to EXPAND and EVOLVE (and have fun, of course!). We choose our immediate family members based upon their ability to “push our buttons;” to help us to become the best versions of ourselves as quickly as possible. For this reason, they typically mirror back to us our own flaws so that we can recognize, learn from and heal them. That’s why these are people that you can’t escape or completely filter out of your life; spiritual GROWTH can never be birthed from COMFORT. 

Which is how it can occur that you are born to people who are literally your opposite. Karmic agreements are not about changing your relatives, but doing the work so that you are able to evolve mentally, emotionally, spiritually and psychologically.