So how has your week been? I really do hope it’s been smooth and enjoyable.…
I feel like the last two years have morphed into one and I’m not the…
Another gem of wisdom was shared by my therapist last week when I told her…
Growing up, the level of Partner Parenting I witnessed between my Mother and Father was…
One of the most rewarding and difficult jobs is being a parent. We will always…
In a healthy relationship dynamic, each person recognizes that there must be a give-take balance…
If codependency unfairly blames the loved ones of addicts, then prodependency tries to support them. When…
As a young woman I never saw myself as an addict or a broken person. I smugly believed that since I hadn’t been arrested, hospitalized, medicated or forced to undergo EST, and I didn’t take alcohol or drugs, that I had narrowly escaped what seemed to grip my entire family of origin in one way
Addiction and dependence have many definitions. There are many different opinions and many heated arguments around the subject. For me there is no one clear definition for each person regarding their dependence or addiction. Humans are too complicated and their circumstances too individual to stick a generic prescription on what looks like a similar dis-ease.
A time of reflection. A time to cast the mind forward and the glance backward. A time to reset my intentions and to consider where my intentions have fallen by the wayside. How have my actions missed the mark? I am good with the practical, with the mundane, even with the technical. But relationships… they