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Family Life During the Pandemic (5/5): Looking Beyond Lockdown

  • 24th Apr 2020
  • Annette Byford

When families function well, they provide a secure base for members to explore beyond the family’s own boundaries. But what has lockdown done to our sense of safety and threat? In her final blog about family systems during the coronavirus crisis, psychotherapist and author Annette Byford observes the sense of creative togetherness that has been fostered among some families – and wonders whether the relaxing of restrictions will be experienced with relief, or a sense of loss.

Family Life During the Pandemic (4/5): Unhelpful and Helpful Coping Strategies

  • 17th Apr 2020
  • Annette Byford

Many pathological defence mechanisms are being activated in family members at the moment in response to feelings of loss and being under attack. Psychotherapist and author Annette Byford continues her blog series on the family system during the coronavirus crisis by considering our role in helping clients develop alternative ways of coping – including the importance of hitting the pause button.

Family Life During the Pandemic (3/5): Enforced Togetherness

  • 10th Apr 2020
  • Annette Byford

For many families, Covid-19 has created a pressure cooker of uninterrupted togetherness. But often the flashpoints are not new ones. In the third instalment of her weekly blog series about family systems during the coronavirus crisis, psychotherapist and author Annette Byford considers how we can support clients in lockdown to anticipate likely points of conflict.

Family Life During the Pandemic (2/5): Absences

  • 3rd Apr 2020
  • Annette Byford

How might family systems be responding to enforced distance between members of the family? In the second instalment of her weekly blog series about family systems during the coronavirus crisis, psychotherapist and author Annette Byford observes feelings of abandonment, guilt and uselessness, reflects on the importance of therapeutic reframing, and anticipates shifts in generational power.

Family Life During the Pandemic (1/5): Keeping It In the Family

  • 27th Mar 2020
  • Annette Byford

Families are now facing one of two highly pressurised new realities: not seeing each other at all, or seeing each other all of the time. How might our clients’ families be responding to the imposed changes, and how can we help them adjust? Psychotherapist and author Annette Byford begins a five-blog series on the family system during the coronavirus crisis with a consideration of coping mechanisms, and how separateness and togetherness have individual meanings for each of us.

Wedding in the Family? Why We Should Take Note

  • 14th Feb 2019
  • Annette Byford

Valentine’s Day is one of the most popular dates to propose on, meaning wedding bells may soon be sounding in some of our clients’ material. As psychotherapist Annette Byford understands all too well, the impact of an engagement isn’t always confined to the couple in question. The author of a new book of interviews with mothers of brides and grooms, she explains why weddings present families with a huge adaptive task – and highlights some difficult feelings they may stir up.