Recovery from codependency teaches that only we are responsible for our happiness and our unhappiness.
Managing a Narcissistic Relationship
Whether the relationship is with a parent, sibling, or lover, love may feel out of reach.
Whether the relationship is with a parent, sibling, or lover, love may feel out of reach.
Healing Trauma and Your Inner Child
To heal trauma, we must develop a relationship with our wounded self.
To heal trauma, we must develop a relationship with our wounded self.
Is My Relationship Toxic?
Healthy relationships nourish and support us. Like poison, a toxic relationship is one that is damaging to us.
Healthy relationships nourish and support us. Like poison, a toxic relationship is one that is damaging to us.
6 Best Tips for a Great Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day creates lots of expectations that are often unrealized. It’s fraught with landmines, whether you’re in or out of a relationship.
Valentine’s Day creates lots of expectations that are often unrealized. It’s fraught with landmines, whether you’re in or out of a relationship.
What Is Splitting? Why We Love Jekyll and Hate Hyde
How can lovers feel both love and hate in the same week or even hour or be devoted for years and then cut off all good memories?
How can lovers feel both love and hate in the same week or even hour or be devoted for years and then cut off all good memories?
How to Spot Someone Playing Victim
Feeling like a victim has taken on negative connotations, but there are people who ”play the victim” in order to manipulate you.
Feeling like a victim has taken on negative connotations, but there are people who ”play the victim” in order to manipulate you.
The Winter Solstice — Christmas as a Time of Spiritual Rebirth
How do you call upon that spirit and manifest it in your life? Do you have a relationship with your higher power?
How do you call upon that spirit and manifest it in your life? Do you have a relationship with your higher power?
9 Tips for Coping With Holiday Depression and Stress
This time of year is especially difficult because there’s an expectation of feeling merry and generous.
This time of year is especially difficult because there’s an expectation of feeling merry and generous.
Is Your Relationship Toxic?
Although friends and family might tell us to leave, it may be hard to let go – despite the fact that the relationship is harmful and painful.
Although friends and family might tell us to leave, it may be hard to let go – despite the fact that the relationship is harmful and painful.
How to Feel Grateful When You Don’t
When you’re discouraged or weighed down with negative thoughts, there are several things you can do.
When you’re discouraged or weighed down with negative thoughts, there are several things you can do.
Relationship Anxiety: It’s a Form of Codependency Rooted in Shame
Women are more prone to this than men.
Women are more prone to this than men.
Signs of Healthy Boundaries
Healthy boundaries are essential in recovery from codependency.
Healthy boundaries are essential in recovery from codependency.
Individuation: From Codependent Chameleon to Selfhood
I didn’t realize the price of being a chameleon until I started recovery and my journey of individuation. By then I was dead inside. I’d spent years adapting to abuse and belittling that I’d absorbed.
I didn’t realize the price of being a chameleon until I started recovery and my journey of individuation. By then I was dead inside. I’d spent years adapting to abuse and belittling that I’d absorbed.
How to Help Addicts Get Treatment
Living with an addict takes a toll on families and makes preoccupation with a loved one’s suffering inevitable.
Living with an addict takes a toll on families and makes preoccupation with a loved one’s suffering inevitable.
What Is a Trauma Bond?
You may be trauma-bonded and have become dependent on and addicted to your partner’s attention and validation.
You may be trauma-bonded and have become dependent on and addicted to your partner’s attention and validation.