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.

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