Identifying family patterns. Cycle breaking looks different for every person engaging in it, but can be summed up as saying “In my family, we did X, and instead I’m going to do Y.” ...

There are other scenarios outside of these extreme cases that motivate someone to “break the cycle” of toxic family behavior. You could have been the child of a difficult divorce, or navigated ...

Identifying family patterns. Cycle breaking looks different for every person engaging in it, but can be summed up as saying “In my family, we did X, and instead I’m going to do Y.” ...

What It Means to 'Break the Cycle' Parents who commit to breaking the cycle in their families mean that they are ending toxic patterns that cause anger, grief, and trauma in other family members.