I’d like to do a little series of blog entries on codependency, counterdependency, and giving. I’m not sure how many posts it will entail, but it’ll be a few. (I know I promised not to use too many big therapy-type…
A friend of mine the other day was talking about a woman she was working with on a volunteer project. This other lady was talking down to her, insulting her, and basically “being snotty” for no visible reason at all. (My…
So I signed my divorce papers yesterday. Whew, that was really not an enjoyable experience. Simply feeling ten different emotions at the same time, most of them contradicting each other, is just flat-out overwhelming. Sadness, relief, anger, happiness, abandonment, liberation,…
Back in the day, when I was a member of a therapy group, I had a saying that became the norm for our little troupe when it was time for someone to just “get real.” One of the members of…
So let’s just jump right in to catching you up with what’s going on in my recovery. Like I said, I’m going through a divorce. What a rich garden of material to use to learn about myself! All along as…