How Mediation Can Help

“Let’s talk about something else, OK?”

“Why can’t you just …?”

‘Why do you always get your way?”

Family dynamics can be complicated, and disagreements can arise even among the closest of relatives. While it’s tempting to avoid or put off important or difficult discussions to keep the peace, the issues won’t simply disappear. Indeed, time can add complexity and urgency to the issues and the family’s ability to come together to address them. Mediation is a way to tackle issues head-on and, together, develop solutions that can work for everyone.

How your family handles, or doesn’t handle, important issues matters. How you deal with those times that you disagree can be the difference between between being stuck in place or feeling that your needs aren’t being addressed, and moving forward together.

Does getting along in your family require that you go along – even if it leaves you or another family member feeling that the process isn’t working for everyone? 

Disagreements are common in any extended family and for a variety of reasons can be difficult to resolve.  How many families can truly say that everyone gets along all the time? Not many.

Improving communication through mediation can reduce the stress of those times when everyone isn’t on the same page – yet – and help get everyone’s needs, goals, and concerns into the discussion so that they can be addressed more productively.

Whether the issues are between individual adult family members, or requires a broader “family meeting”, we are here to help you have the conversations that are difficult to have without getting stuck in the same old patterns.

People usually don’t say “that’s just how we do things in our family” because they’re satisfied with the way they work things out.

At Feig Mediation Group, we help families address a wide range of issues, including:

• family decision-making and roles,
• adult sibling disputes,
• conflicts with extended family members or families of origin,
• family events, holidays, travel, and vacation planning conflicts,
• intergenerational relationships,
• shared family property issues,
• keeping everyone informed,
• financial planning, estate planning, inheritance and bequest issues, and
• caregiving for loved ones and planning for issues that will need to be addressed in the future.

Our goal is to help transform family differences into more aligned, solution-oriented, constructive conversations.

If you’re struggling with challenging family dynamics, contact us to discuss how our mediation process can help with your situation. Please provide your information below and we will respond to you to set up an initial free 20 minute consultation. You also may call us at (301) 785-8972, or email us at erik@feigmediationgroup.com.

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