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October 25, 2025 - 5 Types of Dysfunctional Family Dynamics & 4 Ways to Overcome Them

October 25, 2025 - 5 Types of Dysfunctional Family Dynamics & 4 Ways to Overcome Them

Choose trust over fear and let life unfold in its perfect timing.

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October 25, 2025

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You can't predict exactly how your story will unfold. From this moment until the future actually arrives, you can choose to be guided by either trust or fear. You can spend each… Continue Reading

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5 Types of Dysfunctional Family Dynamics & 4 Ways to Overcome Them

You aren’t destined to become your parents—no matter how much society tries to tell us this is the case.

While some of us love our parents (and we’d go to the moon and back for them), as we get older, we might notice a crossroads in life.

You notice your parent's or family’s cycles of unhealthy behavior. And maybe you realize you exhibit some of them.

The good news? You don’t have to carry these unhealthy cycles through your life, nor do you need to pass them on to your own children.

In fact, let’s stop these dysfunctional family behaviors here and now. It stops with us.

This article is all about empowering you to break those dysfunctional family cycles of behavior and rise above them, becoming your best self (and passing on the best traits and lessons you possibly can to your children)…

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Do You Struggle with Climate Anxiety? How to Move From Overwhelm to Action

We’re living in an era of environmental awakening.

You might find yourself scrolling through feeds filled with melting glaciers, devastating wildfires, and species on the brink of extinction. And while you may recycle, advocate, and more, you might be feeling an anxiety that never quite disappears.

You may feel guilt, and maybe this feeling follows every purchase.

You may feel exhaustion from carrying the weight of a crisis that perhaps you didn’t even help create.

Climate anxiety is a growing reality affecting many individuals today. In other words, you aren’t alone, and there is a name for what you’re feeling.

Even those most dedicated to sustainability can find themselves frozen, caught between urgency and hopelessness. And the more we care, the more paralyzed we can become…

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Grounded Compassion

You know that feeling when everything feels too big to handle? You tell yourself to stop worrying, but the thoughts keep circling. You start replaying conversations, scrolling for answers, and before you know it, you’ve spent hours in your head and still feel just as heavy.

I’ve been there, too. Completely frozen between caring too much and feeling powerless to change anything. The truth is, overthinking feels productive but it’s really just draining. Your body doesn’t know the difference between real danger and imagined stress, so it stays tense, alert, and tired. You end up exhausted, not because the world fell apart, but because your mind never stopped spinning.

What actually helps is doing something small that reflects what you care about. One small action that says, I still have influence here. Send a kind message, wash the dishes while breathing deeply, recycle something, set a quiet boundary. It doesn’t matter how small it looks; your body feels the difference when you move from rumination to care.

When you take one grounded step, your nervous system calms. You stop trying to control the storm and start responding to it with compassion. The world might not change immediately, but your relationship to it does.

Pick one thing that’s been weighing on you and respond to it with a small act of care today. It doesn’t have to be perfect, or some grand gesture, but do something that makes you feel like you made a small difference. That’s what brings you back to steady ground.

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Vibrant red-orange sunset over an open landscape with silhouetted trees. Quote by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle... and have found their way out of the depths.”