Being in a relationship with a narcissist "type" can be hell. However, what if the narcissist is your parent and has cloned you to be a living "perfect" version of him or her? A child chosen to heal the parent's own broken past...
The masses of literature available on the Codependency-Narcissism dance will tell you there are enough of both in this world to make it a big issue...
About two years ago, I wrote a rather philosophical post pontificating about What Do We Need to Make us Happy? As I generally do, I placed this article on various websites for people to read and comment...
One confession that I make with some trepidation is that I was an avid watcher of the reality tv show "Cheaters", in the 90's. Joey Greco who was the host of the show built the cases up well and it made for interesting viewing...
Anyone who practices therapy or has an interest in it will have probably been influenced by Carl Rogers. He developed person-centered therapy and was one of the key founders of humanistic psychology...
There are a range of books that tell us how to deal with our Internal family of thinking parts. Most centre on mantras and progressively aggressive language to deal with them...
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...
It is wrong to assume that if codependency is identified as an issue, the person concerned is codependent with everyone in his or her life...
I once read something that has stuck with me for many years. It went something like "there is no success or failure in life... just success and learning opportunities"...
Can you imagine a therapist telling a patient to think negatively ? To concentrate on the less positive aspects of the issues they are having ? Sounds crazy and not too healthy but there are times when this kind of thinking can certainly be justified...
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