Jessica Laniato

So something that I kind of like want to put in your head, an idea to just keep on coming back to is how do you remain true to yourself in situations and in circumstances that are activating?

Like when your instincts or your internal narration

is not super reliable.

And that happens to all of us, right?

There are situations where we get activated and so we have an old story that we fall back on.

Or when you're around family of origin or sometimes friends that you've had a really long time or a partner that you've been with for a really long time, we fall back on expectation, probability, and habit.

within family of origin, it's called a family trance pattern, right?

This way of engaging with people that you've known for a really long time that is not really authentic to who you are now or who you hope to be, but it's some sort of twisted, messy embodiment of who you once were or projections levied upon you.

And if we're being honest, you aren't just like the victim of this.

You participate in it, right?

Like we do this to other people.

People do it to us.

Being a human is messy.

Being in relationships is messy.

The astrology of this week really gives you the opportunity to bring mindfulness to this.

however it shows up in your life.

Notice when you're activated, when you're scared, when other people's expectations and projections kind of start to become something you over-identify with or conversely, you get super defensive around.

and just take a beat, notice it and remember who you are.

This is really important.

I know it sounds so simple and a lot of times people will think to themselves, well, if it's simple, it's not that deep.