Dingo I have to disagree with you on a few points. First of all Family Counselors in general are woefully inadequate. There is a very low bar of entry into the field and many, if not most of them are misguided, sorry to say. Little clarity on boundaries, victimhood, or trauma, and often encouragement for people to try to medicate their feelings as an avoidance strategy.
Secondly, you said something about depending on one's family and that too is not always helpful. Those who have parents with severe personality disorders, (controlling, demanding, negative, manipulative) are often helped by going "no ccontact" while they learn more positive ways of being.
One of the severe mistakes RealLove® has is with suppression, "Anger is always wrong." This is severely misguided. Unconditional love is unconditional acceptance. If you can't even accept your own feelings, you can't accept another person or even yourself.
Michael Brown has written a beautiful book about this called "The Presence Process," as well as having explained it fully for free on youtube.
Interestingly, another cult leader Teal Swan has plagiarized and copied Michael Brown's work and claimed it as her own according to ex-members.
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Secondly, you said something about depending on one's family and that too is not always helpful. Those who have parents with severe personality disorders, (controlling, demanding, negative, manipulative) are often helped by going "no ccontact" while they learn more positive ways of being.
One of the severe mistakes RealLove® has is with suppression, "Anger is always wrong." This is severely misguided. Unconditional love is unconditional acceptance. If you can't even accept your own feelings, you can't accept another person or even yourself.
Michael Brown has written a beautiful book about this called "The Presence Process," as well as having explained it fully for free on youtube.
Interestingly, another cult leader Teal Swan has plagiarized and copied Michael Brown's work and claimed it as her own according to ex-members.
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