Therapy Shorts 101: The Three Projects That Quietly Ruin Relationships.
Explore the complexities of relationships entering 2026, covering love, compatibility, and the importance of personal identity.
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Therapy Shorts 93: What a Healthy Relationship Looks Like: Spoiler: It’s Boring!
Healthy love is rarely dramatic. This article explores why emotionally healthy relationships can initially feel unfamiliar to people shaped by codependency, anxious attachment, or conditional love. It examines the difference between emotional intensity and genuine intimacy, and why calm, consistent relationships often feel uncomfortable before they begin to feel safe.
Why Understanding Yourself Is Not Enough
Explore the Dr Nicholas Jenner Audio Programme , a deep therapeutic recovery course for codependency, narcissistic relationships, emotional exhaustion and attachment wounds. Includes lifetime access to all audio sessions, practical therapeutic insight and two free therapy or coaching sessions. Designed for lasting emotional change rather than temporary motivation.
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Therapy Shorts 87: Boundary Guilt in Codependency: Why Feeling Bad Doesn’t Mean You’re Wrong
Feeling guilty after setting a boundary is common in codependency. This article explains why guilt often appears when you stop over-functioning, how to tell conscience from conditioning, and how to stay steady without apologising or collapsing. Learn a calmer way to hold boundaries and rebuild self-leadership.
Therapy Shorts 84: Why You Keep Falling For The Wrong People
Why are codependents drawn to emotionally unavailable and inconsistent partners? This article explores how childhood conditioning, low self-worth and nervous system activation shape attraction, causing healthy love to feel unfamiliar. Learn why codependents mistake drama for connection and how recovery begins by judging behaviour, not chemistry.
Therapy Shorts 81: Codependency on The Good Men Project: Interview with Dr Nicholas Jenner
In Therapy Shorts 81, Dr Nicholas Jenner appears on The Good Men Project to discuss codependency recovery. This interview explores how codependent patterns form, why people-pleasing persists, and what healthy boundaries actually look like in real relationships. Practical insights cover self-worth, attachment, and small steps to shift from rescuing to relating.
Therapy Shorts 74: Living With a Codependent: Why It Can Feel Suffocating and What Actually Helps
Living with a codependent partner can feel suffocating: your mood is monitored, independence triggers anxiety, and reassurance becomes a demand. This article explains the nervous system roots of codependency, the “invisible contract” of overgiving, and practical ways to respond with clear boundaries, calm consistency, and shared responsibility.
Therapy Shorts 72: Stop Calling It Chemistry: When “Urgent” Is Just Your Nervous System
Codependency often turns urgency into “chemistry.” This article explains how the nervous system confuses inconsistency with attraction, why reassurance-seeking becomes compulsive, and how to slow the loop with practical delay rules, body regulation, and behaviour-based assessment so connection feels safe, steady, and real.
Group Therapy for Codependency Recovery starts again on 29 March 2026 (via Zoom), with free access to Dr Jenner’s Codependency Self-Help Programme (value $390 USD).
Join our group therapy for codependency recovery starting 29 March 2026. Gain skills to build healthier relationships and personal autonomy.
How Childhood Trauma Shapes Codependency and Affects the Nervous System
Explore how early relationships shape our reactions to modern life, and learn ways to navigate anxiety with awareness and new strategies.
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