Taking care of inner demons!
It’s Christmas break and the dog Suki is growling as the sisters are bantering and sometimes getting competitive with “one-upmanship”. One enemy is “too much sugar” which eventually gets them into bad moods.
MOM is yelling at them to get their chores done like: “take out the garbage and compost”, “clean you room” and “take the dog out”. Another enemy is the enticement of electronic devices. But Mom with gotomedia, like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have formed companies that make looking at devices enticing??
According to Clinical Psycologist and one time Professor of Psychology at Harvard, Jordan Peterson, the biggest enemy is the demon within each of us. He says, “We all need to learn that as humans, we are all capable of “Hitler type destruction of humanity’.” He goes on to explain that his favorite character is a person who always caries a sword but keeps it in the sheath.
Today, as I watch our 14-yr-old draw, I am excited to explain what her picture says to me, “The sisters are ready to fight the demons ‘INSIDE’ and some of us like to put more energy into fighting!”
She quickly responds, “YES, like my sister!!”