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When Childhood Roles Create Adult Limitations

My brother and I both ended up in helping professions trying to save everyone except ourselves and neither of us knows how to receive care.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Family survival roles that served protective functions in childhood can become rigid limitations in adult relationships.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Generational trauma — identifying and interrupting?”

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