If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.
Rudyard Kipling
Alienation is a relational dynamic like no other and it can send you into a spiral of madness if you are targeted by someone determined to drive you out of your child’s life.
Those of us who do this work also face alienating strategies, even from other professionals who profess to be alienation aware.
Whether parent or professional, the impact of someone playing smoke and mirrors with other people’s perception of who you are, can send you into a paroxysm of despair. As someone who is used to this dynamic, here is a guide to keeping your wits about you which has never failed me in all the years I have done this work.
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