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But by the time folks get to estrangement, they’ve spent years trying to set appropriate boundaries, live with disappointment, accept their family’s flaws, and negotiate in so many different ways that estrangement is a relief.
Why So Many Young People Are Cutting Off Their Parents
Fortesa Latifi
his work found that affirmations related to “future-oriented values” — for example, if family is a core value, you could think about time you’re planning to spend with them — were “much more beneficial in terms of the affirmation’s success compared to thinking about the past,” because doing so engaged the value and self-processing regions of the brain to a greater degree.
How to Make Self-Affirmation Work, Based on Science
Allyson Chiu
And the paradoxical reward for accepting reality’s constraints is that they no longer feel so constraining.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
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