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
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
Codependency: Emotional Manipulators – The Case For Locking The Door
I have seen many times a situation that is very frustrating for me as a therapist. Working with codependents, it is often advisable to ensure
Why Codependents Stay With That “Special” Person
Relationships are never as smooth as they could be and a major amount of hard work has to go in to keeping the ship afloat.
Codependency Is A Connection Problem, Not A Disorder
There are many of my peers who believe that codependency does not exist or is at most, a symptom of a quantifiable and recognizable disorder. Many clients will go through therapy for years without their therapist recognizing basic concepts of codependent behaviour in their actions and relationships.