How Do You Visit Family Without Backsliding?
You know all the growth you’ve done since your last family visit? And those vows concerning different ways you’ll behave with them this time? Well, here’s the catch: No matter how good your intentions, you may be at risk of kissing some of that great progress good-bye, at least temporarily, when you’re with your family. Here are some tips for greatly reducing that possibility! If visiting family is a challenge for you, for holidays or at any other time, don’t leave home without first reviewing these vital tips! The secret to using these tips is to recognize that there are certain long-standing unpleasant patterns of interaction in your family that you and your family are used to repeating. You play a role in these automatic patterns that you no longer enjoy playing. This article is about strategies to avoid being triggered when these patterns repeat – and what to do when you are caught in a “trigger dance:. Trigger dances are a habitual ways two or more people have of interacting that
