Growing Up With Family Conflict with Tenya Eickenberg

About this episode

Tenya Eickenberg shares her experiences growing up in a military family marked by conflict and mental illness.

What happens when the environment you grow up in leaves emotional patterns that follow you well into adulthood? Tenya Eickenberg shares the story of growing up in a military family where frequent moves, family conflict, and a mother struggling with mental illness shaped her early life. Tenya describes childhood experiences that included relocating across countries, separation from siblings, and living in a household marked by tension and unpredictability. As she entered adolescence, those ear...

People in this episode

Guest: Tenya Eickenberg

Topics covered

• family conflict
• emotional patterns
• military family
• mental illness
• childhood experiences

Keywords

• childhood
• adolescence
• relocation
• sibling separation
• tension

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