Familial relationships are the most challenging to navigate for a reason; they teach us the most about ourselves.
They are our first relationships of relating to the world through the lens of the other.
They mirror our very existence.
When your awareness grows, it often changes your opinion and preferences.
This is when the work of self-inquiry takes the next level:
Can you hold just as much self-validation and compassion for the other as you have for yourself

Alcohol is a shortcut to happiness.
Shortcuts always require a compromise of our deeper truth.
We aren't really learning the way first hand.
The shortcut effect goes over the same path again and again with so much urgency
that the path becomes a rut.
In the rut, it's harder to see that there is another way.
The way where it's not about how quickly you get from A to B,
but that you do it with integrity,
without compromise.

Love is the thing that brings us to life.
Love is the thing that brings us back to life.
Love is the thing that transmutes the fear death.

FOMO is an illusion that your capacity for joy is decided by an outer circumstance.
Things don't create our happiness, thoughts do.
When we wait for life to be JUST RIGHT to experience pleasure, we give our power away.
And then... You take your brain with you into that moment.
That moment of achievement, becomes empty and fleeting because your Mindset hasn't shifted.