Finding our family "place" during the holiday season

We all grow up hearing and telling the stories of our family’s history and traditions.  Those stories can carry on legacies that can be helpful to future generations, but also can perpetuate stories based in pain and misunderstanding.

Often the stories leave out the deeper truths about what happened allowing old patterns to be repeated in each generation.  Siblings raised in the same household can have very different experiences of the same events, creating confusion and distortion that can fuel challenging emotions as the stories get repeated over and over.

Siblings often get entangled in their parent’s marriage, creating conflicts that do not belong to them. How do we live with and reconcile the stories we hear from and about our family, how do we find our proper place in the narrative, so that we can be rooted in the tradition in a healthy way?

Barry Krost, a Family and Systemic Constellations facilitator and chairperson of the board of the new non-profit North American Systemic Constellations, talks about Family Constellations, particularly in light of the intensity of the holiday season, as well as the flow of love, give and take, and the energetic connections of the family system.

You can listen to this discussion on the radio show Mind Body Spirit Living here.

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