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How coping mechanisms become inherited patterns

I always handled my anxiety by staying busy and now my adult son cannot sit still for five minutes without checking his phone or finding something to do.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The strategies we use to manage our inner life become the template our children use to manage theirs.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Unintended legacy — what we leave without meaning to?”

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