Codependency Stories Day 8: No-Contact
Welcome to the latest episode of codependency stories. The situations described in these stories are fictional and do not specifically depict real life cases...
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...
Codependency: “I Know It Logically But Emotionally, I Don’t Get It”!
Many codependents I work with are stuck in relationships that are abusive, unfulfilling and going nowhere. The sad thing is that they are also going nowhere and stay when they know they should logically leave...
Narcissists Are Abusers But Codependents Choose To Stay (Until They Don’t)
Can you imagine being locked away with another person for a number of years, isolated from the outside world and seemingly helpless to escape?...
Emotional Traffic And Self-Talk? Take Leadership!
We all experience self-talk to varying degrees. Some of it can be positive but mostly it berates us, make us feel guilty, angry, can encourage us to slip into addiction…
Masochistic Personality Disorder And Codependency
Masochistic Personality Disorder was removed from the latest version of the DSM. Some eminent scholars, notably Theodore Millon, regard its removal as a mistake and lobby for its reinstatement in future editions...
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...
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