Episode 106: Sibling Rivalry and Abuse

The relationship that you have with your sibling/siblings and cousins can be the longest relationships in your life. Depending on your experiences growing up these relationships can be of massive support, considerable pain or both. This episode looks at how these relationships were shaped by our experience in our family system growing up and how they play out in our present adult relationships. Were you forced to compete for attention? Did you feel that you were constantly compared? How has the past shaped the present? This episode looks at some of the dynamics that can shape sibling relationships. The more we can understand what happened in the broader sense of the family the more we can move towards having even more joyous and intimate relationships in the present.