This is the Terry Cole show and as you might have guessed I'm your host Terry Cole

for over two decades I've been a licensed psychotherapist, love and boundaries expert, and I'm also the founder of the Real of Revolution and Boundary boot camp.

On this show, I'll bring you simple strategies based on practical psychology, inspiring expert

interviews, and my own insights and observations from my time on the front lines

in the fascinating world of entertainment, empowerment, and mental health.

Now let's get going with today's episode.

Well, hello and welcome to this week's episode of the Terry Cole Show.

I am so excited that you are joining me.

So let's talk about dysfunctional family systems, shall we?

That is what I'm going to be hitting today.

Because what I find is that there's a lot of conversation out there in the world

about dysfunctional families as a therapist and make an

assumption that most people are from a family that has some kind of

dysfunction but what does that actually mean to the lay person?

There were a few dysfunctional traits

that most people seem to go, oh, okay, well,

that person comes from an alcoholic family,

so I understand that that's dysfunction. But there are other traits that a lot of them have been very normalized within our society

where you might not be able to actually look at and understand how those things might be impacting the way that you

were raised. How is that impacting, A, the way that you're raising children, but also

how does that impact your self-esteem and how you see yourself in the world and that's basically what we're going to be covering. I'm going to cover the traits in this week's episode and then next week I'm going to be covering dysfunctional roles in family systems.

So that's more from the addicted version basically.

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