Family Systems

“I was only hurting myself.” How many times have we heard that statement? Or; “No one knew what was going on with me.” There’s a pretty good chance everyone knew. Maybe not specifics, but we weren’t hiding anything. All of our family members took on roles as our addictions grabbed hold. Some enabled, some became angry, some refused to acknowledge the obvious, while still others may have kicked our sorry as*s out of their lives. There are infinite variations to these scenarios. When we got sober, we weren’t the only ones who had to change. The family, whether of origin or chosen, is greater than the sum of its parts. In family therapy, the identified patient isn’t the one singled out as the addict or the “problem.” The family as a whole is the patient. We’re all in this together! In this hour we also take a look at nature vs. nurture, or truthfully, nature plus nurture. They’re not at war but working together from the day we’re conceived, or perhaps long before, passed down through countless generations.