Codependent relationships Archives

Codependency Stories Day 5

In Day 5, I highlight J who found out he was codependent after starting therapy. J is a successful business man who by his own admission "can't live alone"...

Codependency Stories Day 3

oday we meet R. An elderly woman who has been married for 40 years to an emotionally distant husband in a very dysfunctional relationship...

Codependency Stories Day 2

Welcome to the second day of the Codependent Stories. M is a fictional character based on my client's experiences...

Codependency Stories Day 1

B is a fictional character based on my client's general experiences. All events depicted here actually happened in someone's life (or a group of people) in the last week...

How Conflict Can Better Your Relationship

Conflict in a relationship is inevitable. In itself, conflict is not a problem; how it is handled, however, can bring people together or tear them apart...

Dealing With Internal Conflict: A Case Study; Part 1: Awareness and analysis

Using the term "Analysing the voices in your head" will often conjure up images akin to the famous film One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest starring Jack Nicholson...

Choice Not Impulse Moves Codependents Forward

Anyone who is a regular reader of my work will know that I work with a lot of codependents who generally share a similar set of behaviour patterns with each other...

The Many Manifestations Of The Inner Critic

The concept of an inner critic is well known but most people have to deal with more than one manifestation. There might be one that attacks you for doing too much of something and another who then berates you for being lazy...

Codependency: From Co To Counter

ue to their lack of self-esteem and the inability to self-care, codependents become enmeshed with others easily. They work on the idea that all the while they are like this...

Alcoholism: How It Is Destroying Relationships And Families Everywhere

Over the years as a therapist, I have seen the rise in alcohol abuse among patients and in the environment around them. Many of them can only feel good when they can escape their problems through a drunken haze...