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Behind the White Picket Fence: we’re all pandemic children living in a dysfunctional family
a therapist’s read on our collective family system
Well, Georgia is open for business today, especially the up-close sort of business of getting hair cut, nails manicured, tattoos inked, and bodies massaged. These very detail-oriented businesses are opening at the same time that many Georgians are scratching our collective unkempt heads. Why are we paying attention to our hair and not the data that we are seeing in the state?
It is confusing when the evidence does not line up with what “the adults” are telling you.
As a therapist who works with children and families, it is not hard for me to see how our state (and maybe the whole nation) feels like a dysfunctional family system.
And let me be clear, I write this as a nearly life-long Georgian, raised on a pig farm in the middle of the state. I’m part of this “family”. And as family, I have a right to talk about my relatives.
