Bridging the Gap: How You Can Strengthen the Bond between You and Your Family

While some have always had a tough relationship with their family members, others may have a healthy space to express their feelings and emotions. However, all relationships may be at crossroads at some point in life, and it is crucial to be unstuck, as families are protective factors for humans to feel connected, loved, and cherished.

Whenever you feel like your familial relationships are at a standstill, distanced, or impaired, it is time to reflect on your priorities in life and to make meaningful choices. All of us go through our individual lived experiences and are best fit to understand what is going on in our lives to make positive changes.

A family is essentially a system, and each member in this system will have their roles and responsibilities. However, family relationships are ever-changing, and this could lead to disputes or separation. The goal is to ensure that each member in the system accepts their role and respects the roles of the other members.

Family Coaching

Family coaching includes tools and strategies to help you recognize the dynamics within your family systems and guide you to help yourself through different life crises, new experiences, and difficult transitions.

In family coaching, we will help you develop a deeper understanding of your dynamics with the different members of your family. During the sessions, we will equip you with different tools and strategies to better communicate your struggles and effectively close all gaps to continue with a healthy family relationship built on trust, genuineness, and authenticity.

We help parents understand their children’s difficulties during the different developmental stages and help them empathize with parenting struggles, and foster healthy parent-child interactions by guiding both parties to accept each other’s strengths and weaknesses. For this purpose, both parents and children must have continuous and trusted communication.

Common Difficulties

Some of the prominent difficulties families face include:

• New parent difficulties
• Anger management
• Conflict resolution
• Adolescent rebellion
• Marital conflicts
• Impaired communication
• School/College/Work burnout

Family coaches have extensive training in similar situations and are equipped to provide the best interventions to resolve conflicts and strengthen the bonds between family members. In relationship systems, we will participate with all the individuals in the system at the same time to create a powerful bond and build a core foundation that promotes meaningful communication.

Some of the common themes which can lead to relationship breakdowns include blame, defensiveness, contempt, and negative coping strategies. Even though most relationships may go through these behaviors, you have to be mindful that these negative behaviors are not repeated too often as they can contribute to toxicity within relationships. As coaches, we can help you navigate effective communication strategies and manifest positive behaviors for fulfilled relationships.

Life coaching is for everyone as it helps you build self-awareness, self-reflection and motivates you to face all your strengths and failures. Contact us at Unlocked Potentials to get more information about the different services we provide.