Battling Our Conditioning

Towards awakening and stepping away from toxic patterns.

Photo by Fares Hamouche on Unsplash

Yesterday, I had a rather long and emotionally-charged (mostly on my end, it should be noted) discussion with my parents. (I can’t help but notice that I’ve chosen the rather connotationally-violent descriptor of “battle” [so manly!] to title this reflection). And part of me is ashamed to admit that I know that there were…