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Status: And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself? ~ Rumi
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- I am many years into my codependency recovery and this road of recovery has been a real joy. Sometimes I can sit back and enjoy how different my life is now and how far I have come. Other times, like today, I am tested and triggered.I am...
- Thought I would post this poem my therapist gave to me todayThe JourneyOne day you finally knewwhat you had to do, and began,though the voices around youkept shoutingtheir bad advice-though the whole housebegan to trembleand you felt the old tugat...
- I love the self care chain...I think its brilliant.I wonder what it would be like if we could start a 'Try this' chain ? There are quite a few of us who repeatedly reach a crisis point and need advice. It could be that you just post'I was really...
- I feel so confused right now.Life keeps going keeping me busy...work..I'm a teacher...so endless functions and events..where i couldn't possibly let anyone down...Putting a smile on my face (teaching is in a way 'a performance')....I work in a...
- Well, after 3 successively bad relationships in a row.....I'm trying to not look for a man to 'save me' 'make my life better' 'secure me' or 'love me'. I hadn't realised what a pattern it had become. How I ignored every warning sign, because i...
- I thought I would post to say some progress that has happened for me in the hope it helps others.I had a terrible week at work....my new boss seems to hate me, even though I work hard, keep my head down etc... I sensed it from the day she met me but...
- I'm trying to understand why, the fact that my ex (who I remained friends with) going off to start a new job which involves travelling constantly for the next few months, has left me in a panic.I wasnt abandoned as a child, but i was ignored, not...
- Having a bad day......got a few days of work and was really looking forward to it. But 1 of my friends let me down on an evening out together and she did it really badly...just didn't answer the 1 text message i sent her confirming the time and...
- can someone please tell me how to nurture my inner child.. It's driving me mad...I can look after everyone, my family, my kid, my friends...but in therapy I brought my inner child home and for months cant do anything with her...
- I'm at the stage where all the drama has gone quiet and then I'm left with 'me'.And I feel quite hallow,bored,empty. But the turmoil and anxiousness is still there. I woke up from a crazy dream(that didn't seem to make any sense, therapist eating...
- It's sooo tough to leave an ex because it wasn't working, but you feel so alone and desperate for some love that you find yourself clinging to the idea that you might just work it out. my ex wasnt a bad person but his father was murdered when he...
- The hardest thing I am finding is how to 'balance' myself and my feelings. Every time I feel like I've got myself on an even level I get shaken up again. It's not helped by the constant phone calls from my mother and sisters house to get involved...
- I'm at a very hard part of therapy at the moment, according to my therapist...and I was wondering if anyone else as an adult has had to experience feeling really alone? I don't say that lightly..I mean even with the therapy, friends ringing, kids...
- arghhhh....I can't believe that after all my hard work, I have spent the whole entire day wrapped up in my sister's and mothers drama's. I spent the day coaxing my sister's kid in to going to school...chatting with her teachers, head etc... putting...
- Hi, I'm totally new to forums but looking for support as it is only recently I have finally discovered I am a codependent.I had a typically crazy childhood with chaotic parents, a violent detached dad and a codependent mother who treated me like an...