Family (The Truth About Family)

When all you’ve known is emotional and physical abuse, the idea of “family” sends chills down your spine

I separated from my family and I've never been happier.

It has been 4 years, I cut off all my family members. The last month my mother called me for the first time in 7 years, bc she never calls me but I should. I didn't answer her call, when I listened to the voice mail, she said that people noticed my absence & i'm ruining the family reputation by doing this. I blocked her immediately bc i know my family will never change, experts in guilt triping. Thank you Teal for this reassuring words. I'm on the right path 🙏

I was born into a severely dysfunctional family on so many levels. Made to be the scapegoat. Many many years of therapy later I am accepting and loving of myself and living how I want to. I have no contact with either of my parents and limited contact with my siblings. Best decision I ever made.

When I've been driven to homelessness, psychosis, and suicidal ideation, I cant give them anymore chances. Thank you for not making me feel alone💓

Every time I went to visit my parents I had runny nose, now I am pretty sure it was my body expressing sadness. Being in my parents home made my brother very depressed. Now we are both living abroad, we have made the choice of life over death.

Thank you for this. -The black sheep of my family

I've been estranged from my family since 2014. Thet have gave me spiritual, physical, mental scars that cannot be healed by them because they arent the type of people who can admit what they have done. They don't know how to heal. I tried for years...if I continued...I would not be here right now. I'd either be dead or in prison. Sometimes you just have to let them go because too much damage has been done. Sometimes the worst advice you can give a person is to reconnect their family.

I actually think creating and building our own families despite not being blood is actually going to be more and more of the future. "Soul tribes" are going to create so much more awareness, respect & compassion towards diversity. I love my family members but I do not identify with them. They have very little tolerance for people who are different from them. I have actually been the change agent in the family but no one wants to acknowledge my open-mindedness. I actually yearn to leave my family, at least for a while.

When I experienced a total shift in my world view because of information that I found very disturbing I went into a space of being terrified of what the future would hold for humanity and spent far too much time focusing on all the horrors that were being exposed. My youngest daughter had the strength and intelligence to shut me out of her life for 5 years. It spurred me into deep introspection and spiritual awakening that I bless her for being the catalyst of. When she let me back into her life I realized how absolutely brilliant she is. I am very grateful for the experience.

"It's where you were first programmed...it's where your patterns first began" . BOOM. This is exactly the point I've gotten to in therapy! Realizing what these patterns are, and where they originated. Teal is so spot-on!

I feel all awakened people go through a period with the family that they feel a need for separation at some point. This may be for the best and they may come back a different individual able to help the family overcome these limiting patterns, an ultimate act of love.

Nothing like coffee and disillusionment in the morning 🤣 I love you Teal. Thank you for your dedication to truth always 🙏❤️

When people learn that I dont speak to my parents they react with "oh thats a shame", " maybe you will make it up some day", " family is important you must make an effort". Even though Im healed I still have scars because of the effort I made. I have scars because my father physically and mentally abused us all. I have scars because my mother chose to allow this and not protect us

Blood family isn’t always meant to be in your life just because they’re blood. That’s that.

This is so reassuring because I have no desire to visit my dad or brother since my mom passed over 2 years ago. I have learned to love life and spirituality, but trying to talk to them is like talking to a wall! One of my childhood roles was the poor sickly boy that rarely went outside and “got dirty”. Now i work outdoors and have a farm working real dirty work. Also I have only called in sick 5 times in 30 years!! Any time I am around them I feel the old fears and doom creeping in on me. Feels good to vent that

I have been estranged from my family if birth since 2013. No one except my mom has even called me once. There's always a part of me that wonders why they hate me so much when my greatest sin in childhood was really just being "too sensitive" and when I was older I couldn't be in their presence soberly, which only brough more scorn. They've never included or accepted me. I don't know why and I can't afford to care why any more because I made my own family to care about now. I don't miss the one I was born into.

Adopted. Done being the family scapegoat and spiritually bypassed by every single member of THAT family. I now tell people I was an orphan. That is what is BEST FOR ME.

I feel like I’m odd in that I refuse to defend and justify what my family is/did/does. I just see it for what it is and point it out, but I find people don’t want to see things and just pretend everything is fine. Uh it’s so annoying , you can’t solve a problem if you won’t acknowledge it’s there...

I'm very grateful that my family was in the rare category that decided to change together to stay together years ago. We are much closer as a result.