Feeding someone's ego can be a form of care taking . When someone baits you to make them feel like they're more valuable than y...

It's tempting for those of us who are recovering from codependency to engage in caretaking of others. This is a behavior that's lear...

Excerpt from "Women Who Love Too Much" by Robin Norwood from pgs 6-8 "... it's important to understand, however, tha...

While we're on the subject of Codependency and Detachment, I thought I'd write an article to help myself and you, my reader, in de...

Someone once told me to "stand in my own column of light" in reference to a relationship issue I was having at the time. This p...

This article is a follow-up to all my articles on codependency and codependents, co-dependents and codependence. Use the search bar in the ...

The Inner Critic is an internalized version of your IMAGO , in other words, an introject of all the negative messages you received as a c...

  Codependence is a way of adapting to a childhood where your needs are unmet. It is the state of emotional immaturity. There is a lot ...

This post is a collection of musings from my posts in my private Facebook group: SelfLoveU .  Codependency is the absence of unconditio...

Those of us who may have once had difficulty loving ourselves, raised by narcissists, are dependent on the opinions of others, and are peo...

All humans have needs starting from the womb to the grave. If the core needs of a person are not met in childhood, that person will develo...

I'm going to start a series called "Love Yourself Enough." I'm going to write a bunch of graphics that remind us to love o...

Invalidation is one of the central methods of covert narcissistic abuse. The Narcissist simply CANNOT validate anyone consistently. For...

The Codependent's Dilemma with Boundary Violations and Disrespect This article is for anyone who has trouble maintaining equa...