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Finding Your Logical Family: How Chosen Family Can Help You Heal

ByJennifer Nurick
A warm illustration representing the concept of chosen family and healing from biological family harm.
A warm illustration representing the concept of chosen family and healing from biological family harm.

When your biological family caused harm instead of safety, it can take years to untangle the pain.

Healing often begins when we find our logical family — the people who see us, love us, and hold us with the care we always deserved.

Chosen family can be a lifeline. They help us rewrite the story. They remind us: you are not too much, and you are not alone.

You might find your logical family at school, in a sports team, as part of a spiritual community, or even at work.

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Jennifer Nurick is a Master's-qualified Clinical Psychotherapist, attachment and trauma therapist and couples therapist with over 20 years in private practice. She helps adults and couples heal anxious and avoidant attachment, childhood trauma and recurring relationship patterns, drawing on IFS, EMDR and Emotionally Focused Therapy. Jennifer is the author of Heal Your Anxious Attachment (New Harbinger), host of the Psychotherapy Central Podcast and founder of Psychotherapy Central.

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