Insights from Group Therapy for Codependency
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I was thirteen in 1975. It was a hot summer that year and we had a heatwave and a drought.
Our mind is a great thing and we can often feel it controls us with its thoughts and meanderings. We often comment on how things came up “out of the blue” and we don’t know where that thought came from.
We can often remember the feelings around significant events that have shaped our thinking more than the events themselves. These feelings leave an imprint on us that we take forward into our adulthood and subsequent relationships.
It might be difficult when parts of you are screaming at you to defend yourself, while another set is telling you to escape.
This is her account, mostly a summary of journals and notes she made during the relationship. Names are not used and places have been changed as per her request.
Mistakes, luckily for me, have always brought with them a chance to learn something about myself and the way I operate.
Anyone who has codependent traits need to test their motives continually as to why they are doing what they do. Many don’t and continue to live with the idea that they are being slighted and victimized.
That is the person who could turn out to be "the one" or not. You certainly won't know when the relationship is young but asking the right questions will certainly give an indication.
Group therapy is often defined by stereotypes taken from television programmes, especially in the US, depicting recovering alcoholics starting the process by stating “My name is… I am an alcoholic”.
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