Codependent relationships Archives

Don’t Allow Your Inner Dictator To Affect Your Paradigm

I am writing this post while on holiday and trying to keep away from my business to-do’s. So far, it has been successful I have combined hiking with trips with my wife...

Codependency: Avoiding The Pitfalls Of The Adulation Stage

These heady moments we all encounter at the start of a new relationship mean that our general caution and common sense suddenly abandon us...

Codependency: Using The Right Tools To Heal

Codependency is a thinking and behavioral problem. Codependents buy into the idea, promoted by acquired shame, that they are unlovable,...

Where Narcissists And Codependents Share Common Ground

Much of the content available online paint narcissists as monsters and codependents as victims. As most of the personal blogs that carry this content are seemingly written by people...

If You Are Codependent, Please Read

One of the reasons I work happily with codependents is that I am one myself with symptoms to a large extent worked through. However, I do have to constantly monitor my reactions to things and especially my marriage where symptoms are more likely to appear...

Lawyers Call For Contract To Cheat: Navigating Relationships Post Pandemic

The last eighteen months have been the strangest in living memory. No-one could have predicted the impact of the global pandemic on the fabric of our societies...

Reflections On The Inner Child In Group Therapy

In the latest group therapy session, we investigated the Inner Child through meditation and visualisation. This is not a new exercise but it went a little deeper than normal and went on a little longer...

Boundaries Build Bridges… Don’t Be Afraid To Set Them

People like me are always trying to make others see the value of setting healthy boundaries in the spirit of emotional honesty. That is expressing what you feel honestly and assertively when there is a feeling that a boundary needs to be set...

Love Does Not Conquer All: Expectations In Relationships Under The Spotlight

Just how prepared are we for the considerable work needed in order to maintain a relationship? Many of us say that we know fully what lies ahead when we commit ourselves but I wonder just how true this really is...

Increasing Your Self Worth, Step 1: Understand How The Mind Works

Starting today and for the next four days, I look at the subject of self-esteem and how it impacts our lives. Self-esteem issues came to the fore in the sixties as part of the counterculture movement...