The Family Curse: Do You Become Who You Are Around Family, or Who You Used To Be?

The Overwhelmed Brain

Paul Colaianni: Emotional Abuse and Relationship Expert

Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to visiting family, who you are can sometimes regress into the child they remember you as instead of the fully capable adult that you are now. How do you know this is happening? When you're afraid to be yourself around them, it's happening.

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0:00.0	Life presents the toughest challenges.
0:04.6	Every day you are faced with decisions that test your ability to express who you really want to be in this world.
0:11.0	We're told to keep saying affirmations and thinking positively but what do you do when that
0:16.6	stuff doesn't work? Welcome to the overwhelmed brain where you'll learn to make decisions
0:21.9	that are right for you so that you can create the life you want now. Hello, this is Paul Kolyani, hosted the overwhelmedwhelmed Brain, The Personal Growth Show, for the Critical
0:44.9	Thinker.
0:45.9	And on this show, I'll share practical down-to-earth steps to help you improve your mood and
0:51.6	keep you sane in this powerful journey we call life. We'll talk
0:56.2	about why we do the things we do and what we can do to reach higher levels of
1:00.0	happiness and lower levels of stress and overwhelm. My goal is to help you become
1:05.4	empowered so that you can create the life you want. Today's quote is by Richard Bach and it's
1:12.1	this,
1:13.2	the bond that links your true family
1:16.5	is not one of blood, but of respect and joy
1:20.6	in each other's life. How does it make you feel when I read that to you?
1:25.0	The bond that links your true family
1:29.0	is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. In a previous episode I talked about
1:36.8	relationships and how one of the greatest gifts that you could give to a loved
1:40.7	one is to do what you could to help them reach happiness.
1:45.0	Finding ways to support and treat them that moves them towards a happier life.
1:51.0	When you're too busy defending yourself around them, this will never happen.
1:56.0	After all, it's hard to focus on helping someone else reach their happiness when you're caught up in your own turmoil and misery, especially when the other person is the source of that turmoil and misery.
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