A Self-Challenge: Identifying The Parts Of My Own Thinking
I have been quite active lately promoting the use of tools and methods to challenge and potentially overcome blocks in thinking that keep one stuck in the proverbial “hamster wheel” of inaction and overthinking…
Codependents In The Midst Of Corporate Narcissism
Something you may not know about my career is that I used to work a lot with corporate clients, especially banks and financial institutions. I would be called in to help managers, key employees and eventually board members deal with stress and burnout. Much of what I saw in the corporate world horrified me in terms of the attitude of the people in charge…
Stay Or Go: It’s A Choice And Every Choice Has A Consequence
There will be many people who have started the year with the thought that they need to change their relationship status from attached to unattached. Those same people might also have had that thought last year and the year before and maybe even the year before that. The daily grind of ineffective communication, sweating the small stuff, arguing and being unhappy takes its toll in the end. Most couples have, at one time, thought about ending their relationship but can usually find a balance between what is good and not so good. They strengthen the positive and work on the not so positive for the good of the relationship and they find a way to move forward. This is the hope for all of us who have committed to a future with another human being…
Codependency: Stop The Rot By Connecting With Your Child
If you are a codependent and have children of your own, then there is a better than average chance that the codependent tendencies you have, will be passed down through a dysfunctional parenting style. One that has too many boundaries or not enough…
A Childhood Guaranteed To Foster Codependency
It has been said that a large part of the global population is codependent on something or somebody. That something could be work, substances, alcohol. That somebody could be a partner, parent or boss. Yes, there are many ways to be codependent and many are codependent towards more than one “object” leading to a fairly miserable life of sacrifice, search for validation and controlling others…
Recovery From Codependency Means Adopting A Sense Of Independence
What does it mean to be codependent? Unless you are codependent, you really cannot imagine what it is like. It is a connection problem that
What Our Protector Voices Tell Us… The Bad News Is… We Believe Them!
When we allow our thinking patterns to “protect” us, we often feel there is no escape, no matter how hard we try. These thinking traps
A Video Message From Dr Nicholas Jenner
Welcome to Free From Codependency, Dr Jenner´s Online Therapy Hub designed to help codependents in their daily struggles in relationships and coming to terms with
If You Don’t Ask, The Answer Will Always Be No. If You Don’t Say No, The Answer Will Always Be Yes
My apologies in advance for such a long, somewhat confusing headline. I hope you will get what I mean as you read further into this