Caretaking codependency is the pattern of feeling responsible for keeping everything emotionally steady in your relationships — anticipating, repairing, explaining, holding it all together. For many people, it starts long before adulthood. It begins in childhood , when you learned, implicitly or explicitly, that love,...
"Sometimes walking away is the only way to stop walking away from yourself." — Unknown I was between sessions. My TV was on in the background — something I'd half-started watching called The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives on Hulu — as I walked into...
I had a dream I was back in elementary school. No one would play with me. I kept wondering, why does this always happen to me? That soft ache from childhood — the loneliness, the not-belonging — was still there. I lay down to sleep...
For years, I called myself 'easygoing.' It took a long time — and a lot of work — to recognize that what I was really doing was disappearing. The body knows the difference between peace and silence, even when we don't. This piece is about...