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Family with
Adult Children Counselling

Aging Parents | Old Hurts & Resentments | Communication Pitfalls

FAMILY WITH ADULTS

  • Are there old family hurts and resentments that have not been healed?
  • Failure to launch or Adult children moving back home?
  • Taking Care of your Aging parents?
  • Difficulty negotiating financial boundaries?
A common misconception is that once your children grow into adults and start living on their own that all of a sudden parenting would feel easier.

Family Dynamics Change as we age

For the majority of families, adulthood only brings new and different challenges into the picture. This can be a difficult time for both parents and their adult children for a few reasons, like:

  • Disagreements on lifestyle / education / career choices
  • Two opposing views on what the future might look like
  • Difficulty adjusting from an empty nest to a full house
  • Partners, inlaws, and children are entering the picture and changing the family landscape
  • Helplessness as your adult child struggles financially, with mental health or with addiction
  • Negotiating personal boundaries
  • Struggle redefining roles
  • Feelings of not contributing
  • Poor Communication
  • Unclear expectations
  • Feelings of resentment
  • Micro-managing
  • Psychological changes of changing life stages
  • Coping with illness, disease or injury

Stop carrying around those old hurts

This type of counselling can be very useful if any or all family members find themselves carrying around old hurts and resentments. These feelings are not something that you need to live with.

Rather than continue to hurt, we can work together to ensure that all family members have their feelings and perceptions validated and acknowledged, then we can work on healing those wounds in a safe, caring space.

There are no wrong reasons to seek out guidance if you feel like your family is struggling. Although fighting and disagreements are totally normal, feeling completely disconnected and numb towards a family member may also be calling out to be healed.

The only way to true healing, even though it is very difficult, is to peel back the layers of disappointments, frustrations, and resentments to reveal what lies below, which is usually pain, fear, or shame.

Allow counselling to guide you into true clarity so that your family dynamic doesn’t need to feel weighed down anymore.

Merging families

Let's work on resolving your issues together!

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Our family is a circle of strength and love... Our family with every birth and every union the circle grows, our family is a circle of strength. Every crisis faced together makes the circle stronger.
Harriet Morgan