Of Parents and Pandemics: How to Thrive in a Multigenerational Household

Are you an adult person living with your parents?  Are you looking at having to move in with your adult kids?  Humans lived several generations all together for the vast majority of our history.  But that is no longer the norm. Now, there is a sense of failure and frustration, a feeling of lack of freedom and autonomy that comes with parents and their adult children living together, but does it have to be that way?  We think not.
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In this episode, we tackle the question of how to live more peacefully with family.  Whether you are riding out the pandemic under the same roof, or are separated by many miles, getting along with family can be challenging. The relationships we, as children, had with our parents hang around like ghosts, haunting our present interactions, but Charles and Kelly have a framework for thinking about these relationships differently and suggestions for developing a practice that increases capacity for being together in a new way.  Join us as we address a listener question and take a deep dive into the kind of personal work that can bring joy back into stressful relationships in stressful times.  

SHOW NOTES

• Dead Again [1991] starring Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, with Robin Williams
• William Glasser’s Choice Theory: 5 Basic Needs
• Performance Rock Climbing [1993] by Dale Goddard, Udo Neumann
• The National Domestic Violence Hotline/Text Channel