By Briana MacWilliam MPS, ATR-BC, LCAT Licensed Creative Arts Therapist & Attachment Coach. The holiday season can be fun and festive for some, but also increases stress and can shine anunforgiving light on the...
By Marshall Burtcher Codependency is the strategy you used to survive unreliable relationships. It has been your best effort to nurture three specific needs met that are essential to your survival and ability to...
By Susan Ball, Abuse Recovery Expert. When you have a toxic attachment style, you are vulnerable to emotional manipulation, codependency, and abusive relationships. You find it difficult to “break-up” even though you know the...
By Carista Luminare, Ph.D. Have you experienced this? You’re having a normal calm conversation with your partner and suddenly one of you gets triggered into an extreme reaction. There may be a volcanic emotional...
By Candace van Dell. Many people feel that they back slide in their healing journey. This is totally normal andcan actually prove to be beneficial. This sounds strange right? Going forward thensliding backwards due...
By Michelle Farris, Psychotherapist & Anger Management Specialist. Every relationship needs boundaries in order to stay healthy. Without boundaries, you risk becoming a doormat. Once that happens, hurt and resentment aren’t far behind. Setting...
By Stephanie McPhail, MS. Happiness is a personal and abstract emotion that can be affected by many things, including our romantic relationships. While it’s natural to want to be happy in our relationships, we...
By Candace Plattor, M.A. If you are the loved one of someone with an addiction – and even if you’re not – I know that many of you may experience the holiday season as...
By Kevin Petersen MA, LMFT. Chances are that every person reading this blog post knows someone directly or indirectly who is struggling with addiction and codependency. If it isn’t an immediate family member, you...
By Rhoberta Shaler, PhD, Relationship Crisis Consultant. Feeling resentful? When you feel it, do you immediately beat yourself up and tell yourself you’re not being nice, fair, patient, or compassionate enough? Instead of taking...
By Stacy Brookman, Women’s Leadership Coach. In our society, it’s easy to get caught up in the idea of needing someone else to complete us. This can manifest in our relationships as codependency, where...
By Bethany Dotson. Will I EVER be able to trust myself again? This may be the constant song playing in your mind. After 40 or 50 years of repeatedly attracting narcissistic, addicted or emotionally...
By Yasmin Kerkez. Breaking free from codependency in family IS possible. The steps to take are in keeping with key areas of self-love and empowerment. Through focus on these two areas of wellbeing, it...
By Marlena Tillhon MSc. Before I knew anything about codependency, I thought that putting myself last made me a goodpartner. I thought that being overly concerned with my partner’s moods, wishes, preferences and needsshowed...
By Krista Resnick – Master Life Coach/Boundary Expert. Well, here we are….2023. A brand new year. I don’t know about you, but I am always inspired by a fresh, clean slate. However, despite my...
By Lisa A. Romano The term codependency has taken on many shades since the early 70s. Melody Beattie was a monumental figure in the field, and her transformative book Codependent No More changed how...
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This Is How to Deal with Anger Toward an Addict
By Candace Plattor. Is it ever ok to get angry with the addict I love? The truth is that many people who love addicts are people-pleasers, which is another term for codependency. My simple definition of codependency is when we put others’ needs ahead of our own, on a fairly consistent basis. Codependent people sometimes feel very guilty when they try to have their own needs met – believing, in some cases, that they are not worthy of having their needs...
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7 Ways to Recognize A Toxic Relationship & What You Can Do About It
By Stephanie McPhail. Along with physical wellness and financial security, having healthy relationships is one of the biggest contributors to a balanced and fulfilling life. Sometimes, even when we appear to have achieved these things on the surface, there are indicators that we’re lacking the necessary ingredients to sustain them. When they go unaddressed, these detrimental factors will eventually undermine the contentment we desire. By learning to recognize the signs of imbalance, we can begin to take steps to correct them and...
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Codependency Recovery: 7 Steps for Healing Yourself and Your Relationships
By Michelle Farris. One size does NOT fit all when it comes to codependency. Whether you relate to a few traits or all of them – recovering from codependency looks different on every person! In relationship, the codependent person ends up doing most of the giving. You give way past the point of it hurting because you need that person to make you feel whole. When codependency is an issue, you crave other people’s approval. You’re constantly looking outside of...
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By Kevin Petersen. Addiction. It’s a disease that affects the entire family. When a person suffers from addiction, it creates a detrimental impact on one’s life, and it can be difficult to watch someone you care about go through this. But let’s face it: it’s common for family members to take it upon themselves to try to heal a loved one struggling with addiction. Without proper treatment, this can turn into a toxic..
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The Life-Changing Insight That Helped Me Finally Break Free From Codependency
By Marlena Tillhon. Traditional codependency literature has you believe that codependency usually emerges in romantic relationships. We only become aware of it once we’ve had our hearts broken a few dozen times and leap from unhealthy relationship to unhealthy relationship. In my personal and professional experience, codependency expresses itself through us in all areas of life and not just in our love lives...
