Recovery from Codependency Archives

Therapy Shorts 62: Understanding Codependency: The Push-Pull Dynamic Explained

Discover the dynamics of codependent relationships, their origins, and how to break free from unhealthy patterns and embrace real love.

Therapy Shorts 37: When You Finally Choose Yourself

This week is about Codependency. These posts, published twice per week with a short audio, provide bite-sized wisdom to help you grow and discover yourself. Join me as we investigate the small ways we can bring peace, clarity, and connection into our lives.

Understanding Codependency: A Neuroscience Perspective-Drawing Insights from Louis Cozolino’s Work

Codependency isn’t a flaw—it’s a survival response wired deep in your nervous system. Based on Louis Cozolino’s neuroscience research, this post unpacks how early relationships shape your patterns—and how to finally rewire them for love that feels safe, mutual, and real. Healing is possible—and it starts within.

The Neuroscience Behind Attachment: Healing from Codependency

I read a lot of self-help books and they are mostly all the same. Change your thinking and change your life. However, there is one book that I have returned to many times. It is not technically in the self-help genre, more technical, but it holds information essential to understanding how we see relationships.

Codependency: Why Red Flags Give Us All The Information We Need

In my daily work with codependents, I hear a lot about so-called "red-flags". Usually this comes when clients are describing the early stages of a relationship they were or are in...

Understanding That Codependency Is About Control

The idea of control by codependents is one that is often overlooked when discussing relationships. We try to understand why people are targeted by self centered individuals...

Don’t Allow Your Inner Dictator To Affect Your Paradigm

I am writing this post while on holiday and trying to keep away from my business to-do’s. So far, it has been successful I have combined hiking with trips with my wife...

How To Navigate A Break-Up As A Codependent Intent On Connection

Break-ups can be nasty experiences and we all go through them. The best case scenario is that a couple can mutually agree to separate and logically work through that process...

How To Recover From Codependency: Find That Part Of You That Was Lost

Codependents gain a lot of strength from what they do for others. In fact, it is an essential process for them if they are to feel good about themselves. It is a never-ending quest for connection that unless unchecked, will lead to disappointment, rejection...

Introducing The All New Free From Codependency Online Therapy Hub

When you are trying to deal with codependency, it is essential to work with a therapist who understands what it is, how to deal with it and has overcome his/her own codependency issues...