If you haven’t laid awake at night worrying about relationships, we are not the same. For most of my life, bedtime meant rumination. I’d agonize over a crush. I’d analyze work emails in my mind, ...

Love and sexuality can become distorted growing up in a codependent household. Very often, relational trauma quietly shapes children’s self-image and their adult relationships, including sex. They may ...

A very popular topic in codependency literature is the challenge that a codependent has in setting healthy boundaries. Let's take a closer look at codependency, from an overview of the typical ...

It’s independence that artists like Kelly Clarkson, Destiny’s Child, and Ne-Yo waxed poetic about—not codependence. While only two little letters separate the words phonetically, in practice the two ...

Here’s what you need to know about the fatal consequences of emotional enmeshment and shared psychosis. We all know that one couple who seems to do everything together. They share an Instagram profile ...

I am a LCSW, providing individual counseling services with emphasis on emotional and behavior difficulties relating to grief, relationship issues, codependency, depression & anxiety, and post-partum.

"I thought: if I just helped my friends, colleagues and neighbors, maybe I'd get the connection I craved in love, work and life," writes... How I broke free from codependency — and learned the meaning ...

Anxiety and low self-worth can contribute to codependents not being able to set the boundaries they need to take care of themselves, so they let others "run riot over their life," says Beattie. This ...