28/09/2025
Did you grow up in a ‘picture-perfect’ family? One that looked fine from the outside but hid silent treatments, walking on eggshells, being forced to parent your parents, abuse, or addiction? Many of us carry the hidden scars of growing up in dysfunctional families. Healing begins by naming what was once hidden, and knowing you don’t have to keep carrying it alone.
Conscious Psychology
Families can look picture-perfect and still be deeply dysfunctional, they become a cover for the silence, the secrets, the roles children were forced into too early.
Many of us grew up carrying burdens that were never ours, learning to parent our parents, or protecting reputations at the cost of our own truth. That kind of dysfunction doesn’t always collapse the family, sometimes it holds it together in ways that break the people inside it.
Healing begins when we stop confusing appearances with health, and when we find the courage to call the dysfunction by its name. Only then can we choose to create families where love isn’t conditional and truth isn’t dangerous 🤎
✨ What’s something you had to unlearn about “family” in order to heal? 💭
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