I find myself asking this question often: Are we destined to repeat the generations that came before us, or can we choose something different? Perhaps that question lives so close to my heart because I did not come from a healthy family system. There was love in many places, but there was also dysfunction, addiction, abuse, secrecy, mistrust, and generations of wounds that were never fully healed. Those experiences shape us whether we want them to or not, and I think many of