Introduction

Katja: My family's unconventional path offers universal lessons about authenticity, listening, truth-telling and connecting. When people we love go through hard times, like my parents, we often want to make things better for them. But keeping your family from drowning in drama can be hard, even risky work. Katja: The only thing we can do is love them enough to maintain our own boundaries so that when they emerge, we aren't so angry at them and broken by them.