31: Three Weeks With My Parents in India: Can I Stay Regulated

The pull to support, the fear of losing myself. Close quarters, family dynamics, and a nervous system that wants to run. Here is how I am meeting it with open hands.I am about to spend three weeks in close quarters with my parents, supporting them through a trip that is practical on the surface, but emotionally layered underneath.This episode is my real time reflection on what it looks like when healing meets family. The moment my adult self made the decision, and my inner child reacted. The love, the guilt, the gratitude, and the old roles I can slip into without even noticing.I share the approach I am taking into this journey to help me stay grounded, regulated, and connected to myself, even when old dynamics get activated. Not as a perfect plan, but as a practice.This is also a different kind of India for me. Not tourist India, but ancestral land, lineage, and the weight and medicine of family.I do not know what this trip will bring. I cannot control the lesson. But I can choose the way I meet it.And if you want to follow along in real time, I am considering sharing short vlog style check ins from the trip. Think of it as a live experiment. Me navigating the challenges, hopefully with grace, possibly failing miserably and laughing at myself, and maybe you coming along for the wisdom, the humour, or just to be nosey 😆If you want that, email the word VLOG to [email protected] or comment VLOG on YouTube.Local to Leicestershire? Join me for Sacred Exhale, an in-person reflective women’s workshop at BWB Collective in Whetstone.Book your place here 🙏