Posts tagged feel your feels
Communication & Abundance: A simple tool to go from defensive to calm in challenging conversations
Communication & Abundance: A simple tool to go from defensive to calm in challenging conversations

I was with one of my friends a few months ago and found myself in a bit of a rant. It went something like this:

If we could all just communicate - not react, judge, assume, or defend, but actually communicate authentically without charge - we would discover we have more in common than we think and have more compassion and love to share.

Communicating is the basis of abundance and creating what you desire.

Clarity, boundaries, connection, love, to be seen and understood. So much of our ability to navigate the world henges on 1) being aware of ourselves, our needs and our desires and 2) being able to communicate all of that to others.

Communication creates a foundation for successful relationships in our personal and professional lives.

And yet… it can be SO HARD to communicate. 

Why?

Because we have baggage and big feels from past traumas and experiences - old messages, patterns, and belief systems - that interrupt our ability to communicate what’s actually happening in various situations in our lives…

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Self-Care, Trauma, Highly Sensitive, ParentingKelsey Fox Bennett Boydcommunication, abundance, connection, healing, I Feel Free Write, feelings, healing tools, writing activity, get clear, clarity, relationships, challenging conversation, desires, success, boundaries, love, feel seen, feel understood, feel your feelsComment
How to let go of hope that your parent will change and care about you.
How to let go of hope that your parent will change and care about you.

Last weekend was Mother’s Day and soon enough it will be Father’s Day also. For many these days are celebratory, but for many others they highlight challenging or nonexistent parent relationships.

Today’s Ask Kelsey Question is for those who have the latter. 

It’s a big one, and the answer, or at least my answer, is not something you can do once and forever be healed. 

In essence, it’s the journey we’re all on in some form:

The journey of healing from the past, becoming our own parent, rewiring old stories that no longer serve us, choosing not to be defined by the actions or perspectives of others, and choosing new ways of being that enable us to receive more love on all levels. 

NBD (no big deal)…

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Ask Kelsey, Highly Sensitive, Parenting, Self-Care, TraumaKelsey Fox Bennett BoydChallenging parent, Parent relationships, Parenting ourselves, healing, Ask Kelsey, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Let go, rewire, receive more love, old stories, build your inner resources, rewire your foundation, mourn, feel your feels, all the feels, release, See love, Patience, loveComment