How is your relationship with your family of origin? Next to the relationship with yourself, it’s the next most important.
What’s critical to keep in mind is that if you are estranged from your family of origin because staying connected to them was toxic for you, then that speaks volumes about how well you’re taking care of yourself.
If however, you’re turning yourself inside out trying to please people, then the relationship with yourself must not be that great.
If you’re not close to your family and are unsure why, look around at the relationship you have with your friends, again, if you’re too busy trying to please everybody and feel depleted and unappreciated, it’s likely that that’s how you feel about your family of origin.
Looking at that first critical relationship, our mother, father, siblings, is an excellent way to discover, to understand and enlighten, the type of relationship we’re having both with ourselves and others not related to us.
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