Signs & Solutions of Codependent Relationships Confined in Codepency… My eyes obsessively averted back to the clock. He should have been home by now, I thought, worried about the various likelihoods causing my boyfriend’s delay.I’d recently learned (by going through his phone) that on nights when he said that he would be working late, he was […]
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What To Do When People Get Under Your Skin It was finally time for me to embark on one of my most highly anticipated travel experiences: A week in the jungle, basking in the love of elephants!Five gorgeous elephants, rehabilitated from the abuses of the tourism industry, with volunteer support. *Nothing could spoil such bliss
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Taking Responsibilities for Ourselves The Power of Ownership For so many of us, taking accountability for our actions is foreign or painstaking, and therefore avoided all together. When we feel offended, scorned, and resentful, we use those emotions as evidence to exonerate ourselves of any interpersonal wrongdoing. When we succumb to laziness, distractions, and stagnation,
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Are you involved in a one-sided friendship? How selfishness throws off the balance One-sided friendships are characterized by one friend consistently pulling most of the weight in effort, time, resources, etc. Rather than the dynamic being a functional reciprocation, in a one-sided friendship there is no balance of give-and-take, with one person doing most of
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Managing Ourselves – How to Conflict Better If you have a pulse and exist in this world, inevitably you experience conflicts and arguments, be it with a loved one, a stranger, or someone in between. Our patterns of how we respond to and manage conflict may vary depending on who is involved (perhaps you manage
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