Family dynamics often refers to various types of interactions among people who live, interact and exchange. How they do so is dependent upon their role and relationship and whether or not they are in a healthy or unhealthy environment. There are often various factors involved that would define what their interactions look like. For the sake of time, I will say that there are two types of family dynamics. There is a healthy example and an unhealthy example. I know this can seem like an oversimplification, but since this is a blog and not a term paper, we will keep it that basic. One of the most important things to remember about family dynamics are the various role or rules that each person plays in the dynamic itself. Depending upon the size or degree of dysfunction will often determine what role or multiple roles a particular individual will play. One of the most important things to an unhealthy environment is to appear to be healthy. There is a term called homeostasis. According to dictionary.com homeostasis is a condition designed to balance another wise imbalanced environment. It often is designed to conceal a dysfunction by creating the illusion of functionality. Often, in a successful dysfunctional environment there is a spoken or unspoken cooperation between those trying to make up for the otherwise apparent in balance. Conversely, a healthy family dynamic is one whereby each family member 10 exhibit his or her own personality trait or perspective without fear of retribution or causing the family to be out of balance. Matter of fact, there is such freedom in this environment that when a person does get out of balance with his or her role within the dynamic another person has the freedom to comment and the person who is the focus of the comment sees the imbalance they are creating and makes the proper adjustments. There are so many different websites and opinions on this. I encourage you to dig a little deeper and find out more about family dynamics.
One of the most important things in understanding family dynamics is the significant impact each dynamic can have regarding health and both positive and negative aspects. It would appear obvious that a healthy dynamic would support a healthy outcome and a negative dynamic would be the result of an unhealthy family dynamic. When we consider the impact that family dynamics have, we need to understand that each example is a close-knit example. The unhealthy dynamic is close knit because an agreement is needed (whether spoken or unspoken) to keep their secret of imbalance. A supportive family that operates in a healthy dynamic is more open and cooperative in their approach to overall health. Whichever dynamic you are a part of it is in the area of emotion, Economic well-being and will impact the overall health of the family both collectively and individually. I hope you are involved in a healthy dynamic. If you are not, I hope you find your health and promote it to the health of others involved.
Robert Pardon
Robert is the Recovery Guy. Getting clean and sober on April 25, 1986 has given me the insight and practical skill set to not only stay sober, but to also re-invent myself to the person I always wanted to become. Showing others how to do this is my life goal.
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