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Family Estrangement

Surviving Family Estrangement: You are NOT going crazy!

So you would be surprised by many people who, in throes of estrangement, reach out and tell me they feel feel like they are going crazy or going mad.Maybe they feel like they are over-reacting to situations, maybe highly sensitive, or just very uncertain of themselves. And this could be reinforced by people in their lives who might judgemental/critical to their reactions, seeing only outward … Continue reading Surviving Family Estrangement: You are NOT going crazy!

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Family Estrangement, Social Issues

Estrangement and Starting your own Family

This is a video I wanted to do last year but never got around to it and now’s as good a time as ever. So myself and my wife were at a prenatal course last year and there was a big group of couple’s, round 40 people, all ready to be first time parents. We were broken into smaller groups of 5 couples where we … Continue reading Estrangement and Starting your own Family

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Family Estrangement, Toxic Family

Family Estrangement and the impact of the Corona Virus

I was hesitant to record any video about the corona virus as there is so many people putting out opinions and I personally think there is too much noise and not enough hard facts around the situation. so I didn’t really want to add to this. However, there’s been a few emails coming in and one post on the Facebook group how people are managing their estrangement … Continue reading Family Estrangement and the impact of the Corona Virus

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Toxic Family

Writing to estranged family members

There are many reasons why family relationships breakdown which might lead to estrangement but an obvious one is an inability to communicate effectively. Similarly, there a lot of reasons why communication is poor, such as the general rules around communication within the family, e.g. some families are conversation oriented (i.e. they promote openness to different ideas and discussing topics) where as others are  conformity oriented (i.e. the … Continue reading Writing to estranged family members

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