How to Navigate Differing Family Opinions with Covid with Lorrie Richins

Lorrie Richins is a Personal and Family Empowerment Coach, Energy Healing Facilitator, Body    Language Advisor, and Certified Emotion Code and NLP Practitioner. Having successfully overcome past physical and emotional trauma, Lorrie now empowers others to do the same. Her business, Whole Family Mentoring, focuses on helping families heal and feel whole again.     Lorrie shares positive family messages during the Family First segment each week on the Allison H. Larsen Spotlight radio show and is the up and coming author of the book Fortified: 10 Effective Strategies to Fortify Our Families. Lorrie has been featured in several online magazines promoting the importance of strong families in society. She is also passionate about preserving our individual freedoms and was recently a candidate for Idaho State Representative. Lorrie considers her marriage of 36 years and being the mother of 7 children and grandmother of 11 her greatest joy and accomplishment.       How Covid-19 is affecting our family dynamics and how to navigate that.  A reminder that each person is gaining news/resources from a different source and it’s impacting our current view of the situation. Lorrie’s experience with medical deception and why that influences her current thoughts with Covid-19.  “The most important thing is preserving our family relationships.” “When we start breaking down the fabric of family units, we’re going to start having a lot more problems than just the virus.” “Your brain will allow you to open up and receive information when it’s ready.” The family trauma that her brain released when she was 40 years old. “What I survived as a child nearly killed me as an adult.” Must-read book: “The Survivor’s Club” by Ben Sherwood What to do when personal choices aren’t being respected in the family.  Our first most effective tool during difficult family dynamics is to find common ground. “LAWS” - Leave, Attack, Wait/Wonder, Stay When you understand human behavior, you realize that this is just a normal response. We’re all on the same page, we just have a different mindset on how to get there. It’s absolutely critical that we keep our wits about us right now—there’s going to be more divisiveness and we must stay rational.  Lorrie’s “back door approaches” where we aren’t so combative with each other. “Regardless of what happens in the outside world, the family unit is absolutely critical to our survival.” Know your “needy” factor. How Lorrie helps people move from wounded to warrior.  Learn more here: https://www.wholefamilymentoring.com