If not your responsibility to always pick up what other people drop. Journal Prompt: I tend to pick up...
Tag: Codependency
Boundaries and Resistance
If you are resistant to setting personal boundaries, you will live within someone else's. Journal Prompt: I defer to the boundaries of...
When You are Not Quite Ready to Set a Boundary
Even if you are not ready to set a boundary, you need information about where your limit is. If there is no identified limit, you risk continuing to move the goalpost with circumstances. Journal Prompt: The line keeps moving for...
Expectations & Boundaries
It is not my responsibility to guess the expectations of another human. Journal Prompt: I am tired of guessing...
A Journal Prompt for Boundaries
Where I deposit my energy, is my responsibility. Journal Prompt: I put too much energy toward...
A Journal Prompt for Boundaries
Thinking Patterns: Journal Prompt 8
Personalization, the thinking pattern that over indulges in responsibility.
6 Things You Can Do Now When Someone You Love is Struggling with Alcohol
It may come as a surprise the steps don't include, "help person get into a treatment program" or "help person drink less". I imagine these are options you have already tried. I believe it to be more helpful to work through areas within your control.
Emotional Inequality in Relationships, Part 2
Ways we can promote emotional equality in our relationships.
Avoidance and Other Distractions
The act of avoidance is found in relationships. Avoidance shifts attention, keeps us outsourced, and removes us from seeing our own issues and doing our own work. Avoidance can be expressed in "if only" statements. If only _________ was fixed. If only they did ______________. If only they said _____________. If only they were__________. What … Continue reading Avoidance and Other Distractions
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