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Scenario

How to navigate narrative therapy when family members resist story rewriting

Our family has been working with a narrative therapist to rewrite the story of how we handle conflict but my teenage daughter thinks it's all performative and refuses to participate in the new ways we're trying to communicate. The rest of us are committed to changing the old patterns but her resistance is making everyone question whether this approach actually works or if we're just pretending.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The effectiveness of collective narrative change depends on shared participation, creating tension when some members withdraw from the process.

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Patan
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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Narrative therapy and story-rewriting?”

Peri

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