Family Reconnection Amongst Generations.
Over the last few months, I have been sharing with you the essence of who I am, the many facets of my personality and what’s most important to me.
I have been making a conscious effort to be more vulnerable, which has ultimately affected my life experiences, how I feel day to day and how I approach the varied aspects of my life.
Recently, there have been some big changes happen in my life, centered around my immediate family and close friends. I have been lucky enough to spend time with my family, spanning multiple generations after a move back home. It has implored me to be more present and vulnerable. From seeing my grandparents, to welcoming new nieces and nephews, it has brought about consistent change and an appreciation for family.
Over the last few months, I have moved back into a childhood home of mine. In fact, it is a home owned by my grandparents. They are currently living in Queensland and their family home of over 60 years recently became vacant - allowing me to make the move closer to family and have my own space in their home. Moving home for the first time in 13 years, is allowing me to redefine a new sense of balance but it doesn’t come without it’s challenges.
Returning to my home town and moving into my grandparents property was not something I ever thought i’d do, but sometimes life puts you in a position to realign your values and this often prompts you to go back to where it all started. This, metaphorically and literally, takes me right back to my childhood, back to a home that I spent formidable years in, created many happy memories in, and one that I learn’t the value of family in. It has created a time of life for me now where I can not only focus on what’s important for my future but I can also appreciate my past, reflect on it, and at times heal from it.
The last month of my professional and personal life has been extremely hectic, being at times both happy and sad whilst making the move home. For the first time in many years, my whole immediate family is back together. In amongst helping my grandparents close a significant chapter of their lives as the move on to another state, I have been able to create a home in a familiar place - yet one that I can now make my own. In amongst all of this, my siblings and their families have all reconnected. It has been overwhelmingly wonderful to have family close by once again. As our family is growing with new additions arriving, seeing the love between a child, parent, grandparent and great-grandparents has been so fulfilling and a consistent reminder of what’s most important in life. This is a time in my life I will forever be grateful for!
Family connection and understanding your own individual context is known to be a very cathartic and healing process. In reconnecting with my family I have been able to reconnect with myself, my values, core beliefs and essence- in order to realign with and focus on my individual purpose.
What this time in my life has and continues to do is to reconnect with all that I am through a greater sense of self-awareness. My values were instilled by my family and having that time with them reinforces who it is that I truly wish to be. That connection is the foundation to one’s ability to live a life of true expression of essence, whilst sharing it with family, friends and the community.
