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Why and How You Should Meet Your Inner Child: A Four Week Exercise

Here is a series of inner child exercises to be used over one month

Refreshing a Stale Relationship: The In-Depth Guide

Relationships are dynamic entities that constantly evolve with time. Sometimes, they can transition into a period of stagnation or staleness, marked by lack of excitement, diminished communication, and reduced intimacy.

African Teen Girl Using Cellphone Procrastinating Sitting At Laptop At Home. Gadget Addiction Concept

How To Stop Procrastination And Avoidance

We all do it. We convince ourselves that doing what needs to be done or facing that issue can wait until tomorrow or next week or next month or never.

What are the consequences of Emotional Incest for a child?

In emotional incest, the parent may treat the child as a surrogate partner, confidant, or emotional outlet, sharing intimate details about their own life, feelings, and problems that are not age-appropriate or healthy for the child to handle.

Embracing the Unexpected: When Your Tormentor Becomes Your Mentor in a Relationship

Caveat: If you are in a physical or emotionally abusive or controlling, coercive relationship, protect yourself by getting support in order to leave. I have used the word tormentor here as a play on words with mentor, not in its literal sense.

Codependency is Love Management not Love Addiction

Codependents are not escaping or addicts of some sort. They are using relationships to function and bring stability in the only way they know. This is done by managing and controlling the environment around them.

Are You In a Relationship Due To Your Exiles?

Exiles, also known as child parts, may become trapped in the past, unable to move on from the pain and fear of their past experiences.

For Codependency, read loneliness.

I know from my own experience of codependency that this isolation and feeling of loneliness can be crippling.

For relationship success, look at yourself first.

Remember, while personal growth is valuable, it's essential to strike a balance and ensure that both partners are actively working on themselves for the benefit of the relationship.

The Path to Freedom and The Four Pillars were tested

Things returned to normal very quickly after we had a healthy discussion about the lessons that could be drawn from this experience.