To interact with loved ones who are immersed in negativity, maintain calm boundaries, listen without absorbing their emotions, and gently redirect conversations toward solutions or neutral topics. Their state affects you because humans naturally mirror emotions through empathy, and prolonged exposure can drain your energy, trigger stress, or distort your own perspective.

In this article, we will look at two common questions from project participants about interacting with loved ones. Why does it happen that the state of your loved ones, their mood and choices have a negative impact on you, drain you, and throw you off balance.

How to support strength in your child

In the first two parts, we explained how to connect to your source of strength and how to use that strength wisely. This article is about your children. Find out what you can do for them. How, instead of controlling, you can support the strength within your child.

[Interactive article] Books on codependency

In this article, we offer you a selection of books we read in Instagram stories throughout 2021. Since this is an interactive article, you can look inside each book to see signs of codependency, the imprint different types of parents have left on you, what healthy, codependency-free relationships look like, and recommendations for those who recognized themselves in the text.