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Scenario

When family therapy becomes a cycle of mutual protection and shutdown

My teenage daughter and I started therapy together after her dad died last year, but we keep getting into these cycles where she'll open up about something and then I'll share my own grief about losing my husband and she just shuts down completely. I think we're both trying to protect each other but we're also making it impossible to actually help each other heal.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two grieving people are caught in a pattern where their attempts to care for each other are preventing the very intimacy that could heal them both.

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