My family always copes with stress by making elaborate jokes about impermanence - like throwing 'funeral parties' for broken appliances or writing eulogies for dead houseplants - but my teenage daughter is starting to push back, saying it's weird and she just wants to have normal emotional reactions sometimes. We're realizing our coping mechanism might be preventing her from developing her own relationship with loss and change.
More people experience this than they realize.
What feels like wisdom to one generation can feel like emotional constraint to another, even within the same loving system.
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Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.