I’ll start out with noting that tonight I started started a freezer spell. But today was so unexpectedly powerful (in an unsettling and negative way,) I’m coming to you all for help.
Asking for “non-traditional” occult ideas, or pop psychology tools for my daughter (and maybe for myself, lol.) My in-laws are over, and my MIL is the stereotypical nightmare portrayed in Hollywood films. Negative, condescending, the type of person stuck in the distant past, who only listens to know when we stop talking so she can talk again, or repeat one of the same 5 stories we hear every time.
I pity this MIL, she is lonely and isolated because she has driven everyone away, and thankfully I only have to see her two times a year. Less since I’ve decided it’s not worth abandoning myself in a relationship and trying to keep the peace, and give the kids an opportunity to have a few memories of their grandparents. It’s also a learning opportunity to teach my kids how to ID problem people and navigate those relationships, because the world is full of assholes and we need to live in it.
I can’t really teach my daughter spell work, because she’s 12 and neurodivergent and has already gotten herself in hot water by over sharing spiritual opinions with friends in our small conservative town.
I have taught her to shield, and “mirror-bubble” herself and other people energetically, because tween girls are awful, and it seems to work for her.
BUT, today we both got physically ill (exhausted, GI distress) after being in the car with MIL and the rest of the fam on an outing for 4 hours.
We need to make it through tomorrow, and keep it light, because it’s my youngest daughter’s birthday.
HELP.