What is holistic family law? I learned on reflection that I am practising holistic family law because:
A significant cohort of professionals, trained and educated in mainstream, science- and evidence-based practice (be that medicine, psychiatry, law, psychology, nursing or any other practice-based discipline where we provide professional services), have realised that science doesn’t always have all the answers.
The pendulum has swung from approaches like paganism to herbalism, druidism and witchery to anecdotally based practice, to strictly evidence-based practice, and is now understanding that science is great, but maybe the individual has a treatment or a cure for themselves that may confound Science and they just need to be supported to cure from within, whether the evidence says that’s right or not.
From my experience, the breakdown of a family can be a profound and devastating life event for many people, and recovery can take years of using different approaches, including perhaps a legal approach, perhaps some emotional or psychological support modalities.
In my life, with all the experience, training and education I have gathered, I know that a multi-faceted approach to pivoting one’s life from that which was before a family breakdown and that which follows, is critical to going forward into a fulfilling and successful life, whatever success means to the individual. And I’m here for it!
You do you, but make sure your children are safe.
