“My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we are living with right now.” -Byron Katie   I sure can’t think of a more potent statement for the holidays and family time. It reminds me of a self-help meeting I was at in my twenties, when a light went on so immediately for me that I saw my whole life differently.  Your family, some wise stranger said offhandedly, can push your buttons so well because they’re the ones that programmed them.  You know these moments, right?  As if basked in breaking daylight, a new and implicit understanding soaked through me.  It was the kind of moment…