Codependency: Emotional Manipulators – The Case For Locking The Door
I have seen many times a situation that is very frustrating for me as a therapist. Working with codependents, it is often advisable to ensure their recovery...
Narcissists And “Magical Thinking”: An Avoidance Of Shame
Narcissists avoid shame at all costs. It is their nemesis or "kryptonite", if you want to see it that way. It's not clear where the roots of narcissism start but generally held opinions point...
Beware The Narcissist Grandparent
Some years ago, I wrote about the concept of the golden child in a family. Succinctly put, this is a child who is asked to maintain the self esteem of a narcissist parent...
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...
Codependency: Setting Healthy Boundaries
I deal with many co-dependent people on a daily basis and one factor that is extremely common is the inability to set healthy boundaries...
Asking A Question Sometimes Helps
I run a feature on my blog titled Ask Me A Question. It is there so anyone can pose a question concerning their situation, disorder, relationship or anything else that they want some advice on...
A Childhood Guaranteed To Foster Codependency
It has been said that a large part of the global population is codependent on something or somebody. That something could be work, substances, alcohol...
Emotional Incest Or Invasive Parenting… Call It What You Will, It Is A Terrible Form Of Child Abuse
Can you imagine what it is like for a child who is trying to work out how the world works, being dragged into the adult world before they are ready...
Responding Quickly To Emotions Is Irrational…. And Here’s Why
There will be many people who come across this post who are stuck. Stuck in life generally but specifically in relationships that are abusive, dysfunctional and with people who care very little about them...
Codependency: How Hyper-Vigilance Turns To Victimhood In A Never-Ending Cycle
Codependents show and exhibit many common symptoms. One of these and one that I see often with clients is hyper-vigilance, not in the sense of physical threat but mostly to…
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