What You Learn From Going No-Contact With Toxic Family
Recently gone no-contact with your toxic family? Here are some of the incredible lessons you’re in to learn…
by E.B. Johnson
This Mother’s Day, I want to focus not on mothers — who are still engaged in a fight for support and rights — but on the forgotten shadows of this holiday. The people who have no mother to call on. The adult children who have been forced to make the hardest choice of all: going no-contact with the people who should love and support them the most.
The hard truth is that this is the reality for millions of people around the world on Mother’s Day. Rather than sitting down for a loving family breakfast, they’re waking up with dread in their bellies and cracks that shatter the surface of their childhood hearts.
Going no-contact is one of the hardest things an adult child can do, but it’s the only decision left to many who are tied to toxic, narcissistic, and abusive family structures. Have you made the choice to walk away to preserve your peace? While the road is hard, it’s filled with powerful lessons for us, too.
