Saying no and setting boundaries can be uncomfortable. You might have had experiences where saying no leads to revenge, punishment, or rejection. Having had too many of these experiences might make you anxious when having difficult conversations. In addition, you might be afraid of conflict because of past abuse or ...
Date Posted: May 9, 2023
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Anxiety, Attachment Issues, Blended ...
Written By:
Dr Monica Borschel
Do you and your spouse have difficulties having sex? Are you guys having fights or conflicts because you keep saying that you don't have the same libido? Are you the self-described low desire person in your relationship? Have you been doing research on low desiring and wondering how to fix it? ...
Feb 13
Categories: Codependency / Dependency, Emotional Intelligence, Individuation, ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
Tammy Fontana, from All in the Family Counselling Centre Pte Ltd discusses how various forms of real or imagined leverage can undermine a relationship. Forms of leverage include emotional guilty, love withdrawal, silent treatment, financial dependency, social dependency, psychological dependency. She discusses this in her talk. Ms Fontana Helps ...
Sep 13
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Codependency / Dependency, Cognitive ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
Apr 1 Categories: Anger Management, Anxiety, Caregiver Issues / Stress, Codependency / ... Written By:
Dr Monica Borschel
Is your sex-lacking? Has your sex life stopped? Maybe you are the one always asking and getting turned down? Maybe you are the one that doesn't want the sex and don't feel you can be honest to yourself or your partner about why you don't want sex.When it comes to couples trying to ...
Sep 3
Categories: Adult psychological development, Anger Management, Codependency / ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
At 3 a.m., in a city bar, Lorena was drunk and starving for attention. It's hot, drippy, delicious, and she couldn't get enough of it from her flirting.
May 10
Categories: Addictions, Codependency / Dependency, Love addiction
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
A while back I was catching up with a friend I hadn’t seen for a while. We were meant to have a quick coffee and ended up spending a half-day together talking and talking.
I learnt that her relationship was not doing so well and that her mother in law was partly responsible for it. I ...
Mar 24
Categories: Codependency / Dependency, Couple Counseling, Emotional Intelligence, ...
Written By:
Dr Oberdan Marianetti
Just recently I was having a conversation about masculine and feminine energies with someone new to the topic. The conversation was fascinating and it highlighted how confusing this topic can be.It also reminded me of some of the cases I came across, where the masculine and the feminine were ...
May 27
Categories: Codependency / Dependency, Couple Counseling, Marital Counseling, ...
Written By:
Dr Oberdan Marianetti
Pia Mellody, one of the founders of the co-dependency movement, cites problems with self-esteem as being one of the five primary symptoms of co-dependency (Mellody, Pia, 1989). In an amazing example of prescience, Pia did not propose that every person who is co-dependent suffers from low ...
Sep 9
Categories: Codependency / Dependency, Positive Psychology, Self-Esteem
Written By:
Brian Scott
I first learned of the three A's, awareness, acceptance, and action from Alanon which is a wonderful self-help group for the family and friends of the alcoholic. Alanon suggests its members utilize the "Three A's" in dealing with the problems specifically caused by ...
Apr 16
Categories: Codependency / Dependency
Written By:
Brian Scott
One of the many ways, but a critically important way, that people recover from codependency is by attending therapeutic workshops given by experts in the field and designed to help the recovery process. In this post I will share with you the names of some of these experts and the website ...
Jan 11
Categories: Child Development, Codependency / Dependency, Self help groups
Written By:
Brian Scott
It’s not a communication problem
Married couples think because their partner doesn’t want what s/he wants or see the problem as s/he does, they have a communication problem. People’s definition of a communication problem is that they are unable to get their partner to ...
Sep 7
Categories: Blended Family Issues, Codependency / Dependency, Communication ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
In 1966, the Beatles wrote about Eleanor Rigby and the lonliness and depression she experienced:
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
Loneliness is something that ...
May 10
Categories: Attachment Issues, Bullying, Codependency / Dependency, Depression, ...
Written By:
Joanna Fishman
Codependency and adult attention deficit hyperactivity are special areas of clinical interest for me. Over the past couple of years, I had begun to notice that clients who initially had come for codependency treatment, frequently exhibited symptoms of ADHD. It also seemed that clients in ...
Nov 29
Categories: Adult ADHD, Adult psychological development, Codependency / Dependency
Written By:
Brian Scott
When life tries to slap us down, we instinctively turn to others for support particularly our intimate partners. Although this tendency to seek emotional support from loved ones to heal our wounds has long been recognized, it is only in the past couple of decades that substantial scientific ...
Aug 13
Categories: Codependency / Dependency, Couple Counseling, Post Traumatic Stress ...
Written By:
Brian Scott
In this initial entry I want to introduce you to the topic of co-dependence which I feel is a valid and useful approach to helping people. I also use it because there are many resources available to help people recover from the effects of co-dependence (coda) including books, tapes, and videos so ...
Oct 19
Categories: Codependency / Dependency
Written By:
Brian Scott
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