Recently, a rather smart, beautiful young lady contacted me about her fiancé’s family business. Her future father-in-law – who owns the business – is overbearing and treats his son – her fiancé – poorly, failing to compensate him and not following through on promises to relinquish control. Even though the father has gifted significant numbers of non-voting shares to his three sons and one daughter, the other three siblings have long since left the business because they can’t get along with their dad. 

In most family owned businesses – whether Christian or not – there is usually an enmeshment of roles for family members who work in the business. They confuse the four roles that anyone can play in a corporation:

Family business is no laughing matter. When couples work together and experience a deterioration in their marriage, who do they turn to? Nearly all therapists and psychologists don’t know what to do with the business aspect of the client’s clinical picture. But at OnPath, this is different. We have deep experience in clinical psychology as well as business ownership and leadership. You can trust us to work seamlessly across both domains to achieve optimal healing for yourself, your marriage, and your business.

Recently, I had a business client ask me how to heal from past trauma as an adult. I answered by using the analogy of a wake a boat makes when moving through the water. I told her that on one side, we have various relationship bonding ingredients, such as…

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