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Difficult Child called mother in law and she picked her up!!!
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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 652308" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>Naming aspects of overwhelming emotional response helps us make sense of what is fueling what is happening to us. Then, we can know a little bit more about where we are and about how to respond.</p><p></p><p>Disempowered responsibility.</p><p></p><p>That is a good, good naming. It is how we feel about so much of what happens with adult kids. Even when it isn't about stealing from someone we are also trying to protect ~ like the grandmother ~ that phrase "disempowered responsibility" is how it feels to be the parent watching your child head for homelessness or for jail or into addiction. </p><p></p><p>Disempowered. Responsible somehow for choices we did not make.</p><p></p><p>This is an excellent descriptor for that frozen in time place we have named "FOG", Echo.</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 652308, member: 17461"] Naming aspects of overwhelming emotional response helps us make sense of what is fueling what is happening to us. Then, we can know a little bit more about where we are and about how to respond. Disempowered responsibility. That is a good, good naming. It is how we feel about so much of what happens with adult kids. Even when it isn't about stealing from someone we are also trying to protect ~ like the grandmother ~ that phrase "disempowered responsibility" is how it feels to be the parent watching your child head for homelessness or for jail or into addiction. Disempowered. Responsible somehow for choices we did not make. This is an excellent descriptor for that frozen in time place we have named "FOG", Echo. Cedar [/QUOTE]
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