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Where You Eat Matters
The decor of your dining area dictates how you and your family perceive your worthiness to receive nurturing and support. The more they feel supported and nurtured, the more likely they will return to the table. If you have eaten at a table where you felt disempowered, disrespected, or disenfranchised, you chose not to return. You chose not to repeat the experience. Or else you betrayed yourself and went back for more, this is most likely to happen at a parent’s table. Their influence over you is your primary source of support. Unless you have grown into being your own support.
If you are looking at going home for the holidays, knowing you’ll subject yourself to the painful pattern you’ve experienced your whole life, you can step back and literally see the eating area in a whole new light, one that gives you some power over the seating situation because you will have knowledge. Likewise, if you happily return home to step into the nurturing and supportive interplay, you can see the how and why of its unfolding, so you can recreate it for yourself at your own home.