When Family Breaks: Understanding Estrangement, Rebuilding Identity, and Choosing Peace (With or Without Reconciliation)

What happens when the people who were supposed to love you… don't?Family estrangement is a silent epidemic—rarely spoken about, often hidden in shame, and deeply misunderstood. Whether you've stepped away by choice or been pushed out without warning, the grief of losing family while they are still alive is complicated, isolating, and real.In When Family Breaks, Lauren Christine offers a compassion...