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...
Fear Getting Close To Anyone? You Could Be Counter-dependent
The media and TV often celebrate people who are "strong". Especially in the western world, strength is indicative of the ability to get things done, have a mindset of ambition...
How Codependency Can Make You Sick
I believe firmly that it is only a matter of time before codependency becomes a recognised disorder. As discussed many times by this author...
Combining Two Effective Therapies To Help Codependents
Codependency is a complex issue and many therapists doubt its existence. They might agree somewhat with the classic definition of codependency where an enabling partner helps an addict maintain...
Emotional Incest: How A Narcissist Parent Uses A “Golden Child”
There are many articles around on the internet about all types of narcissism and the dangers of being in a relationship with someone who has these tendencies...
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