Dealing With Shame Means Bringing It Into The Open
We all carry shame from our childhood and it's not the easiest thing to face. As we acquire it early in our life through interaction with parents and the environment around us...
How We React To Shame And Why We Keep It Hidden
Many codependents that I deal with have real issues with shame that was acquired in childhood. Initially, this starts with adaptive protection measures...
Childhood Shame: How It Shapes Our World
We can all remember events in our childhood where we felt shame and those memories linger. You can see children being shamed every day on the streets of any town or city...
Finding Your Adult Self Can Be Difficult
If we are honest with ourselves, we spend a lot of time in ‘child’ mode, re-enacting aspects of our development. Whether it’s in conflict with another or when we are ruminating or listening to our own self-talk, our younger selves often come through, consolidating our early beliefs...
How Developmental Trauma Forms And The Impact It Has On A Child
Many of the issues we have in adulthood have a firm base in developmental trauma and how we develop as children has a huge bearing on how we see the world as adults...
The Roots Of Codependency: What Do I Need? A Question Seldom Asked
The type of childhood that codependents have is one that is often defined by their need to make their environment safe and secure...
Being Codependent Stops You Facing The Real Issues
Codependents generally have an unhealthy focus on the external. In many cases, this focus is on a specific person (usually emotionally unavailable) but it can also be on work, to take an example...
The Roots Of Codependency: Look To Bonding And Parental Common Sense!
There is an old saying: "anyone can have a child but not everyone can be a parent". These wise words are very true and can be applied to a lot of the parenting we all see day to day...
Codependency: The Impact Of Our Beginnings
Think about the following situations and the resulting behaviour...
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...
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