
The Family Peacekeeper: Are You Solving or Enabling Family Conflicts? | S7 E29
03/26/25 • 36 min
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Do you always find yourself in the middle of family conflicts, trying to keep the peace?
If so, you might be filling a role that no one asked you to fill - and it might be causing more harm than good.
In this super transparent episode, Steve and Mary Alessi get real about the role of the peacemaker in the family, and discuss whether its a role that comes with it's own set of problems. You'll discover healthy ways to approach the conflicts that occur in every family, and see how setting boundaries on when to get involved can help your family handle them even better.
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Do you always find yourself in the middle of family conflicts, trying to keep the peace?
If so, you might be filling a role that no one asked you to fill - and it might be causing more harm than good.
In this super transparent episode, Steve and Mary Alessi get real about the role of the peacemaker in the family, and discuss whether its a role that comes with it's own set of problems. You'll discover healthy ways to approach the conflicts that occur in every family, and see how setting boundaries on when to get involved can help your family handle them even better.
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Text FAMILY to 302-524-0800
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The Family Business with The Alessis - The Family Peacekeeper: Are You Solving or Enabling Family Conflicts? | S7 E29
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Let me tell you one of the reasons why it's not so helpful. Are you going to hurt my feelings? No. No. Okay. No. Because sometimes it seems like. And if the mom is the peacekeeper, it's like she's taking sides. Oh. Or she's shielding the kids from the dad and the dad. Yeah, it's not shielding. She's taking sides with the kids.
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