Episode 17: Smother Mothers
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In this episode, Evan shares his experience with a virtual family client. Evan, Eli, and Melissa reflect upon how the family system creates unwanted feelings and responses from all involved and that common lack of emotional trust in families. Please join us as we navigate interpersonal communication by also contemplating:
- Inviting families to go beyond the "presenting problem"
- Families passing the anxiety “hot potato”
- Parents enabling adult children vs. parenting
- Random tear bombs!
- You don’t have to understand it to treat it
- Scapegoating
- Countertransference can be used tactfully
- Mother’s anxiety suggesting hidden rage
- Smother mothers
- Members of family being responsibly irresponsible to maintain relationship cohesion
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