Once you recognize that you are codependent, affirmations are one of the tools that will help you tremendously. Affirmations empower you to face the facts of your codependent life and to build a powerful future on your behalf. The positive thoughts you concentrate on will permeate to your ... Views: 1014
When you are feeling your lowest, I’m sure you can’t imagine one thing to be grateful for. When you think you are deprived, your feelings and thoughts revolve around what you don’t have. You may not believe you deserve for good things to happen to you. Being grateful and thinking along the lines ... Views: 896
Have you ever wondered if it’s them that need to grow, change, be a better person and be more responsible or could it possibly be you? We are all responsible for our own lives. If you are living with a chemically dependent person, though, you may have taken on the role of caretaker. You may ... Views: 997
Codependency usually comes about as your response to another person’s chemical dependency. It revolves around your relationships with the people in your life. It involves the effects these people have on you. You, in turn, then try to affect them and their behaviors. As you begin to see them ... Views: 1016
Recovery from codependency means getting yourself and your life back. It is caring about you again. It is about reclaiming yourself and your life. Recovery is an internal agreement and a process that lasts a lifetime. Remember, yesterday’s choices are the consequences you live today. The choices ... Views: 2055
Most of us had diaries when we were younger. We’d write about that cute boy in homeroom, vent our anger about our siblings, voice our feelings of unfairness about a grounding or restriction our parents enforced, or simply express our dreams for our future.
Journaling has now been recognized ... Views: 4455
Self-esteem occurs when you make a conscious decision to value yourself and not see yourself as being less valuable than others. It comes from inside of us. You still feel other emotions such as guilt, anger and fear, but your self-esteem stays undamaged.
Your self-esteem may have become ... Views: 1056
How to Detach in a Codependent Relationship
A lot of the time as a codependent you get caught up in others lives. You become obsessed with another and you feel responsible for what happens in the others life. Your own life falls to the way side and you hardly notice. Your main concern sometimes ... Views: 18434
Codependents sometimes seem almost misplaced. You seem to have a hard time relating to whom you truly are and for that reason you have a hard time setting boundaries. You have a hard time saying no to people and you let people cross the line of what should be your boundaries and hurt you.
You ... Views: 3806