I haven’t talked a lot about coaching my clients on their toxic family.
The season for toxic family is summer travel and holidays, especially Thanksgiving.
When I say toxic family, I mean in laws, parents, siblings, exes, and children.
I am not referring to toxic romantic relationships. While I help with that as a ministry at church, I don’t prefer working with it for coaching. Because coaching is about taking responsibility for yourself, and people in these relationships are tired of having to carry the weight of the relationship. Typically not open to coaching. They are a better fit for counseling.
I don’t promote it much because I ended up getting narcissistic women as clients.
There are a lot of folks with toxic family who are under constant stress from it . I love coaching on this topic. I help them rethink the situations, set boundaries respectfully and build up a positive identity.