The Soul Mate Prep Blog#108: Did you feel for the people in August: Osage County?

"What you have in you, will save you. If you don't have that within you, what you don't have in you, will destroy you."-Gospel of St. Thomas

August: Osage County was on Broadway a few years back and the film version was released a year and a half ago. It was labeled an American dark comedy drama.

I have to ask, who would label a dysfunctional family who are in so much pain a comedy?

The writer executed the pain but I feel there was no redeeming quality to the story. Even though, I would call the characters "too far gone," meaning it is too late for someone to uncover all the non-functional issues one has suffered. When someone is "too far gone" their denial is so strong, they are blinded by their pain and can't see they're the only one who can save them. However, the writer could have put the youngest in therapy to understand what she had inherited.

Can you feel for your own suffering?

"The “run for the carnations” brings home to me the origin of this divine flower. The first carnation appeared on Earth when Mary wept for the pain and suffering for Jesus. The deepest part of me is weeping for the misery and torture of Charismatic, and also for all the people who are in psychological and emotional agony. The crowd is feeling my grief and that of Charismatic. I know deep down all of us have the compassion to open our hearts and feel for ourselves and others."-Excerpt from Charismatic Connection

"A dysfunctional family is full of suffering and continues the cycle by reproducing and then expects that generation to heal them."-Serena Jade

Do you have the courage to heal your dysfunction you inherited?

"Self-Knowledge is the Jewel."-Serena Jade
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The Soul Mate Prep Blog#13: What is a functional family?

In a functional family, life works. We are able to perceive in the here and now [all our needs are being met].We can think for ourselves, rather than being told what to think. We can feel and not be told what to feel. We have the freedom to choose what we desire without pressure from our parents on what they desire for us. We have the freedom to be our true self with clear boundaries.

In order for the above to happen, both mother and father need to be mature.

Maturity means we have graduated from our family of origin, and have become our own person, with clear ego boundaries. We can relate to our family of origin without being fused or joined to them. We are our own person, where we can move away from them without guilt or move near without absorption, this means we are emotionally free.

Do you think maturity is role modeled in our society?

There is an age old saying, "Women mature faster than men." Women are raised to feel connected to their nurturing nature more than men. However, maturity has nothing to do with feeling. Maturity is a profound sense of self, separate from our family of origin.

"The greatest gift you can give your child is a functional YOU."-Serena Jade

Are you ready to become mature?

If not, why not?

                           Serena Jade
Author/Speaker/Body,Mind, and Soul Consultant
www.serenajade.co