We are all Walking each Other Home

This sweet picture was taken about 8 years ago. And, in so many ways, it is not that long ago, but on reflection, it is long enough to have a career transition, 2 children, a move to the beach, another to the city and the most recent to the country, an ever-changing and evolving family foodservice business, numerous hours teaching yoga and loads of time spent on personal growth.  Some of the growth we invested in, other parts we had a teacher guiding us and then there were the areas we learned on the fly because that is just what you do when you are a parent, own your own business and live under the same roof.  People often ask us how we stay connected. As selfish as it might sound we work on ourselves.  We remember that before there was WE there was ME. This ME philosophy has been a life-long lesson for me. In the past, I would get lost in other's ideas of what I should be doing and losing myself in societal's views of normal.  When I was able to break through this pattern, really accepting and taking action on what I felt deep in my heart I fell back in love with myself.  I opened and attracted a whole new world of relationships.  The best one being my husband. 

My story today is sweet, but this relationship stuff is not always pretty.  It is messy and painful at times.  I really believe we are all here to master relationships.  And that mastery requires you to be in relation to others, but first, you must start with the relationship with your soul. As you really befriend yourself and underSTAND (take a stand for yourself) you begin to know what type of relations your soul is calling for.   Some relationships may shower you with pain, while others provide you an outpouring of love.  You realize that in the end, it was never really about the other person, rather the imprisonment you felt, the frustration you had to work through or the heart opening expansion you experienced was really just about you being on your own path to freedom. As Ram Das says, "we are all here just walking each other home." 

Love,

Jen