A CLIENT SAVED HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS MOM BY DOING THIS ONE THING...

A CLIENT SAVED HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS MOM BY DOING THIS ONE THING...

Journaling. A client came to me seeking support for relationship with his mom. They couldn't stop fighting. He would distance himself, she would bait him. He would cut her off, but not completely and things got confusing. I asked how they were keeping in-touch: over the phone, some texting. Contact became more and more scarce.

One session, he wondered aloud, 'I wish there were other ways we could communicate'. That's when I remembered my mom and I writing letters in a mother-son journal some years back. The client bought a journal, wrote a few letters to his mom and mailed it to her. He over the course of a month, they had traded the journal twice. And the content of the handwritten correspondence was so much richer and more pleasant than the skirmishes than would get into when reacting versus slowing down and responding.

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