Tuula Rasen BACP BPC FPC 

Excerpts from "Lola's" letter to her new partner "Harry" to thank him for the support he offered Lola's teenage son following the divorce and his own falling out with friends. The full letter is linked at the end: "It’s never easy coming into a ready-made family of two teenagers and their mother, all still raw from the rupture of divorce. Never having had kids yourself, maybe it was harder still, when you didn’t really understand them or their situation. But try you did." "Yo

"Family dysfunction rolls down from generation to generation, like a fire in the woods, taking down everything in its path until one person in one generation has the courage to turn and face the flames. That person brings peace to their ancestors and spares the children that follow." Terrence "Terry" Real is a Family Therapist based in the US, an author of several books and founder of the Relational Life Institute.