Surviving Hurricanes and DysFunctional Families

Surviving Hurricanes and DysFunctional Families

What do hurricanes and DysFunctional Families have in common?

Before I get to the answer, I want you to take a moment for the
survivors of Hurricane Gustav. I know what they experienced.
After living 10 years in the Florida panhandle, I returned to Colorado.

My first hurricane warning was a traumatic and quick learning experience.
By the time, we were forced to flee Ft. Walton Beach several years later,
I felt like a seasoned hurricane veteran.
Even today, I feel the tension of watching and waiting for the latest
hurricane to make landfall.

My heart goes out to all who must leave their homes and daily routines.
It’s tough not to know what you will
find the first time you approach your home.
The most memorable find for me was melted ice cream in my freezer.
Two days without electricity--I look back and smile about this today
as I picture myself cleaning up the mess.

How does this relate to DysFunctional Families?
Trauma and abuse survivors never know what will happen next.
They spend their lives waiting for the next incident to occur, always on-guard.
In “From Darkness to Light: Your Inner Journey” find out
Does Your Family Put The Fun In DysFunctional? Take a peek at Chapter V now.

Chapter V
Does Your Family Put The Fun In DysFunctional?
All About Your Family
Your Family Theater
Rules Of The Family Game

All About Your Family

Family patterns describe how to create a healthy functioning family. The more a family functions on a healthy level day-by-day, the more quickly they return to healthy functioning after moving through a crisis or stress situation. Functional family patterns are described in four areas:

• Communication
• Relationships
• Personal growth
• System maintenance

Wow! Communication is probably the most misunderstood idea in developing healthy families, healthy relationships, and healthy lives.

Relationships are the backbone of the family. You find out how to create healthy relationships within your family, socially, and in all areas of your life.

Personal growth is the emotional, mental, and spiritual development of the individual. My mentors and teachers are all in agreement with me…“if you’re not growing, you’re dying”. Growing through the “Transformational Journaling for Healing Souls™ system is a lifetime investment in your own personal growth.

System maintenance is about creating and maintaining harmony in the family system. Now is your opportunity to learn how to Re-Create your Life in healthy ways. In the eBook “From Darkness to Light: Your Inner Journey, I take you step-by-step through the process.

Your Family Theater

As an adult, you continue to pursue these behavior patterns in all your relationships. The family role patterns identified in this book are the hero, caretaker, scapegoat, lost child, and mascot. We talk about these in the “Family Theater”. In “Rules of the Family Game”, we talk about spoken and unspoken rules you are expected to follow. “All about your Family” covers how the family learns to be dysfunctional and how this dysfunction is passed on generationally.


In the eBook “From Darkness to Light: Your Inner Journey, you determine your family role and decide how you want to increase your flexibility to Transform your Soul.
Once you identify your issues, choices about how you want to change are possible.

Rules Of The Family Game


Family rules are expectations about how family members interact or relate to each other. They may be stated or unstated. In the eBook “From Darkness to Light: Your Inner Journey, you will find a chart of general family rules.

Family patterns, roles, and rules cover a broad cross-section of family functioning. Through identifying patterns and processes, you move your soul transformation forward to thriving in your life. You no longer carry the dysfunctional patterns of your childhood into your adult relationships and current family.

Transformational Journaling “Focus Point”--Determine how you may be passing dysfunctional family patterns on to your current family.

Peace and calm,
Debra

P.S. Take 10-15 minutes to write out your response to this “Focus Point”.
P.P.S. Send your response to me. I’m available at drdebra@houseofpeacepubs.com or by phone 719-647-0652 (Mountain time—USA).