How Do You Handle Differences Within?

[Cammy]

My one very disturbed teenager has been acting out a lot and quite against our will and well beyond our control. I finally had to try to get to the bottom of it so I let her (Fagan) have her own journal and invited her to write anything and everything she wanted to. It turned out that she had some very horrendous pain and anger that she was carrying for quite understandable reasons. I was able to read her side of things and realize that she just needs validation in the outside world. Once she was allowed to express herself and be understood and embraced and acknowledged, the acting out stopped. She had been carrying this anger, pain, and resentment for many decades and was literally exhausted and quite ready to negotiate a new course of action. It worked.