FAMILIES:

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We may love and care about our family very much.
Family members may love and care about us. But
interacting with some members may be a real trigger
to our loss of sanity – sometimes we go into a deep
level of shame, rage, anger, guilt, and helplessness.

It can be difficult to achieve detachment, on an
emotional level, with certain family members. It can
be difficult to separate their issues from ours. It
can be difficult to own our power.

The first step in separating our issues is awareness
and acceptance – simple acknowledgement, without
guilt, of our feelings and thoughts. We do not have
to blame our family members. We do not have to blame
or shame ourselves. Acceptance is the goal – acceptance
and freedom to choose what we want and need to do to
take care of ourselves with that person. We can become
free of the patterns of the past. We are recovering.
Progress not perfection.