Family Tree

What does it mean to be part of a family tree? What prompts the shape and direction of personal growth? Is our family tree where we find belonging? Or is this where the longing for belonging takes root in our souls? Is this where we long to know we are enough as we learn myriad strategies of fitting in?

Contorting, twisting, hustling, pleasing, hoping for acceptance based on terms we never fully grasp, rules and expectations that shift just as we think we might reach them.

When at last we accept that we are who we are, we learn to transform the materials that we have. We make what we can out of our experience, reflection, and the tenderness of choosing to belong fully to ourselves.

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