I was three years old the first time someone taught me not to trust what I perceived. I don't have a fully continuous memory of what happened. What I have are fragments, and the absolute certainty that I registered immediately that something was deeply wrong....
Most people don't search "codependency therapy" the first time they look for help. They search things like "why do I feel responsible for everyone around me" or "why do I keep losing myself in relationships." They're not sure yet what they're dealing with. They just...
If you've been researching trauma therapy, you've probably landed on these two names more than once: EMDR and Brainspotting. They're both evidence-informed, body-based approaches that go deeper than talk therapy. They both work with the nervous system rather than just the narrative. And therapists who...
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,...