Family feuds can be toxic. They're usually based on an issue that escalates and gets bigger from very little, or through a history of issues. Anything and everything that brings the family to a complete halt.

Failings out

Fallings out seems to be common within families. Families can be complicated made complicated through feuds that can leave family members feeling sick to the stomach, unless you think another family member is to blame.

Rifts in families

Rifts in families can be the nature of how some families work. Anything can trigger an intense emotional response from us that can continue into other relationships, sometimes through the generations also. Disagreements, and all cause pain that can continue to emotionally harm us, if not handled or nipped in the bud.

Look at the bigger picture

It’s important not to make assumptions, but to look at the bigger picture to see how each family member can help dissipate tension. Where we may fail to acknowledge our part in a family disagreement, we may fall out.

We may carry arguments whether we think we do or not. Arguments don’t dissipate, they just stay on the back-burner until something happens and we don't cope, when all it would take is mediation. Apologies are not always forthcoming.

Ilana Estelle is a mental health and wellbeing advocate who combines educational insight with her personal experience of living with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities. She holds diplomas in Counselling, Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Therapy, Psychotherapy and Counselling, and Stress Management. Through her writing, Ilana supports others in navigating their emotional, mental, and physical health challenges. In addition to writing for The CP Diary, her work has appeared in healthy lifestyle magazines. Ilana is also the author of three books: Cerebral Palsy: A Story – Finding the Calm After the Storm, Spirituality, Healing and Me, and Survival: The Covid Years – Time for Change.

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