How to get through the festive season when you’re estranged from your parents

By Megan Willis, Associate Professor, School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University

As Christmas approaches, many of us are busy making plans to spend the day with family – organising travel, buying presents and looking forward to (or perhaps dreading) long-held traditions.

For others, this time of year also brings a resurgence of grief as we face Christmas without family. This can be the result of distance and death. But for many, it’s due to family estrangement, though this often goes unspoken.

What is family estrangement?

Family estrangement is a deliberate and sustained…

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