ACOA's don't recognize that their need to be validated is so strong--that they sometimes seek to control others through care-taking for them--to induce a sense of 'need'--so that others never leave them.
To stop the insanity wheel from spinning--we ACOA's need to take accountability for our own happiness--by accepting self--and others--without expecting others to fulfill our needs--or help maks wounds they didn't create.
By Lisa A. Romano, Wed, 04/09/2014 - 00:00
Below you will find an amazing article that should be able to help de-clutter the tangled web of thoughts, emotions and ideas you may have regarding the classic question, "What is normal?"
So many of us struggling codependents don't know what healthy or normal is.
We were abandoned long ago by parents who were self absorbed--controlling--and ignorant to what their true role was in our lives. As a result, we...
By Lisa A. Romano, Sat, 12/21/2013 - 23:00
Any adult child of an alcoholic or any adult child of an emotionally manipulative parent would tell you that the slightest conversation about the most mundane thing is enough to cause a total breakdown in communication with one of or both of their dysfunctional parents.
Whether it is a conversation about the weather, or about a news story on television, when trying to communicate with an alcoholic--or emotional manipulator--even the most simple conversation topics are enough to...
If you are the adult child of an alcoholic--that means that you did not learn how to think 'well/healthy or appropriately' as a child. How could you? Your parents were inebriated--and or in denial about being inebriated.
Are you cycling in and out of unhealthy relationships? Do you easily get sucked into other people's drama's?
If you are the adult child of an alcoholic--that means that you did not learn how to think 'well/healthy or appropriately' as a child. How could you? Your parents were inebriated--and or in denial about being inebriated.
Are you cycling in and out of unhealthy relationships? Do you easily get sucked into other people's drama's?
Listen in as we discuss the root causes of codependency and what we need to do to move beyond it.
Hurting, in pain, confused, angry, feel powerless? Listen up as Lisa A. Romano tells it like it is.
If you are the adult child of an alcoholic--that means that you did not learn how to think 'well/healthy or appropriately' as a child. How could you? Your parents were inebriated--and or in denial about being inebriated.
Are you cycling in and out of unhealthy relationships? Do you easily get sucked into other people's drama's?
By Lisa A. Romano, Wed, 11/20/2013 - 23:00
Tune IN NOW to Lisa A. Romano at Blog Talk Radio
On today's show we will be discussing...
By Lisa A. Romano, Wed, 11/20/2013 - 23:00
By Lisa A. Romano, Sun, 11/17/2013 - 00:00
Codependency is the equivalent to mental and emotional slavery.
Anything that we experience within the mental and or emotional body must manifest in the physical body. We can never separate our emotional or mental experience from our physical bodies--as all beings are the sum of that which is experienced on every level of existence.
Codependent relationships are maddening...
