Identity formation in Dysfunctional Families

When you grow up in a dysfunctional family you’re not given free rein to form your own identity.  Your identity is imposed. You’re told who you are.

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You were allocated the role of family scapegoat and experienced forced community exile. You’ve had to extract yourself from the toxic family system for your survival.  Even though you’re free from ...

There’s a narrative circulating the healing space that says,

"If the trauma happened in relationship then the healing must happen in relationship.”

This never sat well with me because I personall...

We’re living in an important time in terms of family scapegoating abuse - a real inflection point. 

The Age of Silence is fading - indeed the Silent Generation - those now age 80 - 97 are mostl...