Happy Beautiful Monday Everyone! I sat with something at the end of last week and throughout the weekend, and just had an epiphany after a walk. That's usually how it goes down for me. A walk, workout, shower, or meditation. 🚶♀️🛀 Over the last few weeks, I've been sharing about how to use your hidden patterns quiz results to both discover how experiences and emotions show up in our outer and inner worlds, and start to remember who we are so we can honor ourselves. I did that today because I put awareness on some feelings last week and waited for the answers to arrive. Last Wednesday, my MIL left after visiting for 8 days. I've known this for a long time, but it really sunk in this time: That's WAY too much time to have someone else in your space, dysregulating the normal rhythms of the home and life. I realized a few things this morning on my walk: 1. You can be excellent at regulating yourself, but having anyone extra in your environment, especially those who aren't regulated will very likely catch up with you. She has bad ADD and anxiety so her nervous system never calms down. 2. Giving yourself space and care during this time is essential, but likely won't have the same effect as it normally would. On a typical day I can reset and find my baseline pretty easily, even if I've been stressed. I found returning to the energy of the space with my MIL in it was more difficult and I began to ask myself why. 3. It's completely okay to have frustration and negative emotions during this time. Those emotions and feelings are arising to alert us to something being off. And, we can still hold love in our hearts for that person too. She left on Wednesday. Normally I would be good to go after a day or two, but this time my feelings lingered and I knew I had to explore that so I set the intention. This morning, I realized on my walk that I hadn't fully processed and integrated many of my feelings towards her from the past. I was aware of them and felt them at the time, but some of her behaviors this time we're a trigger.