It can be easy to fall into a relationship rut, especially if you don’t take time to carve out time together. Spending time with your partner can bring romance and adventure to your relationship and strengthen your bond.

Unhealthy or “toxic” personality traits or dynamics have a negative impact on all relationships, whether romantic, platonic or professional. Lack of awareness or ignorance of these toxic characteristics will invariably lead to unhappiness.

Gaslighting the inner child occurs when we intellectualize our trauma, pain, and experiences. An example of this would be justifying that our parent treated us poorly because they were treated poorly.

Many of us who struggle with codependency don’t have the opportunity and support we need to feel our feelings or let our intuition guide us. We don’t learn from our mistakes. Mistakes equal blame, shame and criticism.

Sometimes you feel like somethings just isn’t quite right. You respond to certain places, people, and experiences in ways that you don’t understand. You wonder if something happened to you that makes you feel this way.

Are you or someone you love struggling with depression, anxiety or PTSD? Are you feeling an intense fear that something bad will be happening?

If you live with OCD you likely experience obsessions. These negative thoughts become overwhelming and pervasive. You may even engage in compulsive behavior to cope as it helps reduce the intensity of the negative feelings.

EMDR is an integrative psychotherapy approach. It includes a set of standardized protocols that incorporate elements from many different treatment approaches and has relieved psychological trauma for millions of people of all ages

The truth is that many people who love addicts are people-pleasers, which is another term for codependency. Also defined as putting others’ needs ahead of our own, on a fairly consistent basis

Codependency is a coping strategy that formed in childhood as a result of a broken connection with caregivers as a result of inadequate or inattentive parenting. In addition to toxic shame, developmental and relational trauma contribute to codependency.