Lori Klauser
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Signs of Codependency and the Steps You Can Take to Start Recovery
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 spiraling out of control, you end up trying to control their behavior. The soul of codependency lays in you, though, not the other person. It is a silent war you begin within yourself. U
August 31, 2009
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Recovery from Codependency is Possible
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 are yours to make. In other words, if you don’t acknowledge that there is a problem in your life, you will never be able to change it. If you change your choices, your life will refle
August 31, 2009
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Jou aling Through Codependency
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 unfai ess about a grounding or restriction our parents enforced, or simply express our dreams for our future. Jou aling has now been recognized to be more powerful than once thought. Not only to codependency, but the scientific community has been researching jou aling for more tha 20 years. It has proven to be very beneficial. It c
August 31, 2009
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Having Healthy Self-Esteem
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 damaged in your childhood. A significant caregiver of your past gave you messages that you were not as good as you should be. They did not esteem you in the appropriate way. These messages t
August 31, 2009
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How To Detach In A Codependent Relationship
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 conce sometimes is how your relationship appears to the outside world. It could be some time before you realize or even notice what has become of your inner world. You then realize the sacrifices you h
December 2, 2007
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Establishing Boundaries
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 tend to lose your sanity, your self-respect and yourself within relationships. It is not wrong to give to others. It is when others take more than you are willing or able to give them t
September 9, 2007