Codependency Diaries 2: Enmeshment
Welcome to the second version of Codependency Diaries. As a reminder, these stories are based on real-life cases but not current clients. Names and situations have been changed but the…
Tag: Self-esteem
There Are Still Those Who Believe Codependency Is A Myth
I read a very interesting article yesterday posted by a certified divorce coach that claimed that codependency is essentially a symptom of another disorder such as anxiety or depression and…
Codependents In Isolation: A Question Of Self-Care
The weekend has been tough so far. In our small town, new confirmed cases are being reported every day. There is a sense of surrealism about the whole situation and…
Codependency: Self-Care Is Essential And It Starts With You
Many codependents that I see in my practice have very little idea of the concept of self-care. This might be because they are generally dealing with the care of others…
Take Your Internal Family To A Safe Place
In my last post, I talked about the value of meeting a “younger self” in visualisation. I said and believe that this is an emotional but worthwhile step in trying…
Meeting Your Younger Self Tells You All You Need To Know
While doing inner child work with clients, I often run them through a guided visualisation where they meet and greet a younger version of themselves. It is mostly an incredibly…
Conditioning can be changed but it takes hard work and awareness.
A client who has been coming to therapy for quite some time, recently had a revelation where she finally realised that her family had conditioned her as a child to…