Everything you do is caused by how you feel.
Many of you might be going home for the holidays, or staying home and your family is coming to you. You might love it, or you might dread every moment of it. When you are around your siblings they may bug you like they did as a kid and you revert to who you were as a kid. You go over and over in your head memories where you felt you were not taken seriously, or you might remember bad holiday juju. Thinking about that might make you feel anxious or your mind might be spinning in overwhelm mode.
How you feel is caused by your thoughts.
How do you want to feel while you’re with your family this week? Relaxed? Valued? Heard? Seen? Your thoughts will dictate how you feel. We do not get to control how our parents or siblings act. We don’t get to control the crazy aunt, or extremely direct grandma that tells us exactly what she thinks. We only get to control ourselves and our thoughts.
What are you choosing to think?
