Extended Family Issues
Extended family conflict can be problematic in many ways.
You have tried, perhaps for years, to make the relationship with your spouse’s family better.
Or maybe your own siblings have you tied in knots.
If you find tolerating your parents or in-laws difficult, you aren’t alone. But how to resolve what may be many years of entrenched beliefs and behaviors?
This is a good place to start!
Our coach, Cherie Morris, will work with you to unwind and untie the threads of conflict to understand, below the surface, what’s going on. After that, you can begin to create a new strand of understanding and perspective.
If needed, Cherie will refer you to therapeutic providers to support individual and family work. We have financial and legal resources to support conversations about money and legal matters that may be hard to start.
Cherie will be right there, too, helping with the practical application of that work to be sure you have the right tools for rebuilding a foundation for success.
Contact us today by calling our coach, Cherie Morris, first at 240.252.3349 Ext. 812!
Maybe you never got along as kids or maybe you just don’t now.
It seems to ruin every holiday, but you aren’t sure how to fix it.
Dealing with family is difficult. But dealing with adult sibling conflict can be devastating to the whole family system.
Of course, people continue to do it and often find themselves enmeshed in complex disputes that involve personal as well as professional and financial threads.
Conflicts in family impact all aspects of the family.
When it begins to harm the family system, it may be devastating.
Keeping personalities and perspectives in check is not easy.
But what’s the solution to a seemingly intractable problem?
Coaching facilitates dispute resolution.
Our Coach, Cherie Morris, is here to help jump-start the process. By first understanding the various perspectives, she can help guide you to creating a plan for interaction with very similar or different personalities.
And if needed, she can provide additional therapeutic support through her trusted network of skilled psychotherapists.
If new agreements are needed or finances sorted, she can use her referral resources to cooperative financial and legal professionals who can address those concerns through an equitable, efficient, and cost-effective process.
At each step, Cherie is right there to reassure, interrupt conflict, and help you avoid additional escalation.
Keep the family together.
Contact us by calling our coach, Cherie Morris, first at 240.252.3349 Ext. 812, so we can help you resolve conflicts and disputes in your extended family.
Families in business can create problems.
Dealing with family is difficult. But dealing with family in business may be impossible.
Of course, people continue to do it and often find themselves enmeshed in complex disputes that involve personal as well as professional and financial threads.
Conflicts in business impact all aspects of the family.
When it begins to harm the family and work systems, it may be devastating.
Keeping personalities and perspectives in check is not easy.
But what’s the solution to a seemingly intractable problem?
Coaching facilitates dispute resolution.
Our Coach, Cherie Morris, is here to help jump-start the process. By first understanding the various perspectives, she can help guide you to creating a plan for interaction with very similar or different personalities.
And if needed, she can provide additional therapeutic support through her trusted network of skilled psychotherapists.
If new agreements are needed or finances sorted, she can use her referral resources to cooperative financial and legal professionals who can address those concerns through an equitable, efficient, and cost-effective process.
At each step, Cherie is right there to reassure, interrupt conflict, and help you avoid additional escalation.
Keep the business intact and the family together.
Contact us by calling our coach, Cherie Morris, first at 240.252.3349 Ext. 812, so we can help you resolve conflicts and disputes in your family business.
Dealing with elder care can create disputes.
Your dad never liked to talk about his health and now has a chronic and disabling disease. He was tough and strong, and it’s hard to discuss his obvious need for more care. In addition, your brother refuses to be part of the confrontation and can’t pay to help anyway.
Maybe mom’s memory is slipping, a little. Your sister isn’t in town to see it. As a result, she can’t understand all the help mom now requires, and she’s questioning every expense you ask her to help pay for, saying she can’t afford it and suggesting that it’s not even necessary.
Sometimes, a parent has an accident that requires intensive care and cooperation among siblings who are far flung or even live close by but are far apart on difficult decisions that need to be made.
Prior planning helps reduce disputes.
When they may not have made provisions for care or their wishes explicit, how are decisions made for elders?
It’s ideal to discuss these scenarios prior to their occurrence but not uncommon that it doesn’t happen.
Even when a parents’ wishes are known, siblings may still have conflict about how those desires are implemented.
Instead of asking the courts or the family lawyer to decide, potentially leading to further deterioration of family relationships, it may be time to work on the process used between family members.
Our coach, Cherie Morris, is here to help.
Using tools developed to shift and de-escalate conflict, she can create a system of interaction that may allow you to choose another path. She will be right there, next to you as you take each step and while making decisions, too.
If additional resources are required, she will suggest therapeutic, financial, and family-friendly legal resource referrals that can help facilitate the best resolution.
Conflicts can be resolved before creating permanent problems.
Coaching can help. Contact us by calling our coach, Cherie Morris, first at 240.252.3349 Ext. 812, so we can work with you to address conflicts and disputes before they create permanent rifts in relationships.
Sometimes, grandparent/grandchild connections are severed.
Maybe your son got a divorce, and now you don’t see your grandchildren at all.
Or your daughter thinks you did a terrible job with her and won’t let you spend any time with the grandkids without her being present.
Legal recourse to access is limited.
It’s rare that the court system provides a satisfying result in these cases.
It is often better to try and create repair in the underlying relationships rather than take legal action that may satisfy no one.
Help is available to start repairing relationships.
Our coach, Cherie Morris, is here to help.
She will meet with you and any other family members who are willing to participate and help work out a resolution that meets your family’s needs.
Rather than simply put a band-aid on the problem, she will gently probe what may be at the root of the division and help you use tools to heal the wounds.
Therapy may be needed and is available with her referral to trusted professionals.
Don’t let events and past disputes disrupt the bond.
Cherie can help find resolution to ease conflicts and repair old wounds. It is important to keep communication between generations.
Contact us today by calling our coach, Cherie Morris, first at 240.252.3349 Ext. 812!