Part One: Family Origin
Family Identity. My family has a purpose and has strong belief for what we stand for. My family has goals, dreams, intentions, and plans for ways to survive in this world. Growing up in a low-poverty family had many challenges; however, we survived with love and the belief in God. As a family of six, we were faced with many challenges and obstacles, but managed to overcome them by using communication, and able to identify when we needed help from outside sources.
Family Structure and Boundaries. Family structure explains the association surrounded by those connections that happens within a family (Nichols, 2014). For an example, dynamic patterns, like follower-distance, describe the process interactions (Nichols, 2014). …show more content…
We didn’t really attend church due to my parents “belonging” to only one church and that was located two states away. Every Sunday as a young child, we would have “song and prayer." This is where we would go to my father’s parents’ house and sing religious songs and discuss life struggles. The girls had to wear dresses, while the males wore dress pants and a nice shirt. I know many would think of it as a strange event, but I found it more relaxing and beneficially then going to an actual church. I can still picture my parents and grandparents singing beautiful songs then praying for my brothers and cousins since at the time they were in the …show more content…
My attachment as a child went from secure to anxious. I was terrified I was going to lose my father. On top of that, I wasn’t sure how my mother would react if my father did pass away. I feared that she would eventual die from a broken heart. Anxious thoughts ran through my head daily. With working three jobs, I felt as though I didn’t get see my father as much as I wanted and that cause great stress and anxiety. I lost over 15 pounds in those terrible two months when my father was ill. At times my mother was able to be attuned and respond to my distress, but other times she was emotionally unavailable and cause great confusion in my relationship with her. With having an ambivalent and anxious attachment with my mother, I was left confused on when it was okay to express myself and when it was not okay to reach out (Sable,
Family Identity. My family has a purpose and has strong belief for what we stand for. My family has goals, dreams, intentions, and plans for ways to survive in this world. Growing up in a low-poverty family had many challenges; however, we survived with love and the belief in God. As a family of six, we were faced with many challenges and obstacles, but managed to overcome them by using communication, and able to identify when we needed help from outside sources.
Family Structure and Boundaries. Family structure explains the association surrounded by those connections that happens within a family (Nichols, 2014). For an example, dynamic patterns, like follower-distance, describe the process interactions (Nichols, 2014). …show more content…
We didn’t really attend church due to my parents “belonging” to only one church and that was located two states away. Every Sunday as a young child, we would have “song and prayer." This is where we would go to my father’s parents’ house and sing religious songs and discuss life struggles. The girls had to wear dresses, while the males wore dress pants and a nice shirt. I know many would think of it as a strange event, but I found it more relaxing and beneficially then going to an actual church. I can still picture my parents and grandparents singing beautiful songs then praying for my brothers and cousins since at the time they were in the …show more content…
My attachment as a child went from secure to anxious. I was terrified I was going to lose my father. On top of that, I wasn’t sure how my mother would react if my father did pass away. I feared that she would eventual die from a broken heart. Anxious thoughts ran through my head daily. With working three jobs, I felt as though I didn’t get see my father as much as I wanted and that cause great stress and anxiety. I lost over 15 pounds in those terrible two months when my father was ill. At times my mother was able to be attuned and respond to my distress, but other times she was emotionally unavailable and cause great confusion in my relationship with her. With having an ambivalent and anxious attachment with my mother, I was left confused on when it was okay to express myself and when it was not okay to reach out (Sable,