Narcissists don’t usually seek help unless a major loss shatters their illusions. But both narcissism and codependency can be healed with courage, time, and a commitment to yourself.
What is Codependency?
Codependency is highly recoverable, but requires effort, courage, and the right treatment.
Codependency is highly recoverable, but requires effort, courage, and the right treatment.
Emotional Abuse: Beneath Your Radar?
If you’re wondering if your relationship is abusive, it probably is.
If you’re wondering if your relationship is abusive, it probably is.
Is Your Heart Committed? Is His?
What makes intimacy so difficult? It requires vulnerability – risking openness.
What makes intimacy so difficult? It requires vulnerability – risking openness.
Are You Codependent or Interdependent?
What makes interconnections healthy is interdependency – not codependency.
What makes interconnections healthy is interdependency – not codependency.
How to Build Self-Esteem, Self-Responsibility, and Self-Efficacy
The rub is that when self-esteem is low, it’s painful to take responsibility. People rather make excuses and blame others, since they already feel so bad.
The rub is that when self-esteem is low, it’s painful to take responsibility. People rather make excuses and blame others, since they already feel so bad.
10 Tips to Spot Emotional Unavailability
Here’s a list of more subtle red flags that may signal unavailability, especially when several add up. They apply to both genders.
Here’s a list of more subtle red flags that may signal unavailability, especially when several add up. They apply to both genders.
What is Emotional Abandonment?
Even in a healthy relationship, there are periods, days, and even moments of emotional abandonment.
Even in a healthy relationship, there are periods, days, and even moments of emotional abandonment.
How to Leave a Narcissist or Abuser
As long as you’re under their spell an abuser has control over you. In order to become empowered, you need to educate yourself.
As long as you’re under their spell an abuser has control over you. In order to become empowered, you need to educate yourself.
Need-Fulfillment is the Key to Happiness
As adults, we can’t stop ourselves from sacrificing our needs and wants in relationships, often at the expense of our own happiness.
As adults, we can’t stop ourselves from sacrificing our needs and wants in relationships, often at the expense of our own happiness.
7 Parenting Essentials to Avoid Codependent Parenting
Codependents grow up in homes where there are no rules or the rules are harsh and rigid, or inconsistent and arbitrary. Children need a safe, predictable, and fair environment.
Codependents grow up in homes where there are no rules or the rules are harsh and rigid, or inconsistent and arbitrary. Children need a safe, predictable, and fair environment.
Shame: The Core of Codependency and Addiction
Like all emotions, shame passes, but for addicts and codependents, it hangs around, often beneath consciousness, and leads to other painful feelings and problematic behavior.
Like all emotions, shame passes, but for addicts and codependents, it hangs around, often beneath consciousness, and leads to other painful feelings and problematic behavior.
How to Feel Grateful When You Don’t
Cultivating an attitude of acceptance enables us to feel grateful even when we’re in pain.
Cultivating an attitude of acceptance enables us to feel grateful even when we’re in pain.
6 Techniques for Letting Go
Letting go may require repeated efforts to shift your consciousness away from the problem.
Letting go may require repeated efforts to shift your consciousness away from the problem.
Recovery From Codependency
Recovery entails a 180-degree reversal of this pattern in order to reconnect with, honor, and act from your core self.
Recovery entails a 180-degree reversal of this pattern in order to reconnect with, honor, and act from your core self.
24 Tips for Conflict Resolution
Resolving disagreements in a healthy way creates understanding and brings couples closer together. The objective should be the betterment of the relationship.
Resolving disagreements in a healthy way creates understanding and brings couples closer together. The objective should be the betterment of the relationship.