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Family Estrangement, Social Issues

Surviving Estrangement: Are you trapped inside the family narrative?

I was reading the book ‘Happiness by design’ by behavioural scientist Paul Dolan and one concept he discovered was the idea of narrative traps…which is when our happiness is determined by societal expectations, such as the car, the big house, …

May 5, 2020by Karl Melvin
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Family Estrangement, Social Issues

Estrangement and Starting your own Family

This is a video I wanted to do last year but never got around to it and now’s as good a time as ever.

So myself and my wife were at a prenatal course last year and there was a …

April 20, 2020by Karl Melvin
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Family Estrangement, Social Issues

Estrangement, Uncertainty and Decision-Making: Intuition Vs Impulse

Intuition

At the best of times, an estrangement involves a constant process of managing uncertainties but naturally, with what is happening right now, a crisis state is being triggered in many people as they feel an added pressure to respond/react but …

April 2, 2020by Karl Melvin
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Family Estrangement, Toxic Family

Family Estrangement and the impact of the Corona Virus

I was hesitant to record any video about the corona virus as there is so many people putting out opinions and I personally think there is too much noise and not enough hard facts around the situation. so I didn’t …

March 25, 2020by Karl Melvin
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Family Estrangement, Social Issues, Toxic Family

Living with Family Estrangement: Do you discuss the estrangement publicly?

Discussing an estrangement is a very personal decision…some choose to talk publicly about it and others chose to keep it private and closed. 

Personally, I rarely talk about my own estrangement publicly as that’s my choice and my right to …

March 12, 2020by Karl Melvin
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Family Estrangement, Social Issues

Family Estrangement: Is it possible to reconcile?

Something that has come up a few times the last few weeks in my client work is the topic of reconciliations, especially unexpected ones. Some of my clients are finding themselves in an unusual position where a reconciliation might be …

March 10, 2020by Karl Melvin
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Toxic Family

Coping with Family Estrangement: Managing Funerals/Family Sickness

I speak a lot of the many experiences and difficulties of estrangement, but the one I come back the most often is the deep sense uncertainty because it is so consistent across everyone who I’ve spoken to. But why exactly …

May 23, 2019by Karl Melvin
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Toxic Family

Writing to estranged family members

There are many reasons why family relationships breakdown which might lead to estrangement but an obvious one is an inability to communicate effectively.

Similarly, there a lot of reasons why communication is poor, such as the general rules around communication within …

May 6, 2019by Karl Melvin
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Family Estrangement, Social Issues, Toxic Family

7 ways to ‘Park’ Family Estrangement

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December 25, 2018by Karl Melvin
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Toxic Family

Family, Christmas And The Importance Of Stage Management

The media is rife at the moment with articles on the difficulty of going home to visit a dysfunctional (whatever that means to you) family over Christmas.  

You can find my latest contribution to one such article for the …

December 25, 2018by Karl Melvin
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My name is Karl Melvin and I’m a Psychotherapist based in Dublin. I have created this site to help people detach from the toxic people, emotions and situations which are holding them back from living their lives their way.

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