Here are a few telltale signs and symptoms of affection deficit disorder: You might be a love addict if ...
Lorraine Roe | Posted 03.13.2012
Well, here it comes...The Chinese Year of the Water Dragon. When you look up the symbolism of the water dragon it is described as a powerful creature. But it loses power if it jumps into a situation before carefully observing or researching the circumstances.
JD Roberto | Posted 11.06.2011
I am in a codependent relationship that is headed for heartbreak. My heartbreak, that is. See, this is one of the many things no one ever quite captures when they try to explain how a parent feels about a child.
Lauren Quinn | Posted 11.17.2011
We travel in part to be free of ourselves, the roles and responsibilities of home. Travel allows us to escape those self-constructed constraints of Who We Are and What Our Lives Are, and allows us to live more freely in the moment.
Therese Borchard | Posted 11.17.2011
Until recently, "no" was a dirty word to me. As a stage-four people-pleaser, my vocabulary was rich with affirmatives: "sure," "okay," "absolutely," "no problem." But my mouth couldn't seem to form the word "no."
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 11.17.2011
The holidays are a time of heightened reality. A time to reaffirm bonds of friendship and family. The general merriment of the season can make what we...
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 11.17.2011
Denial is a dangerous thing, it can leave families shattered and broken, make perfectly good lives sail off track and in the case of Dianne Schuler, it can be the direct cause of eight deaths.
W. Hunter Roberts | Posted 11.17.2011
A smart young woman asked my friend, Jennifer, "What would happen if you stopped accepting demands or criticisms from anyone not pulling their weight?"
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 11.17.2011
Dealing with the sorts of challenges that living with addiction inevitably poses can challenge kids, to say nothing of leaders of the free world, to develop unusual talents and strengths.
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 11.17.2011
It has long been clear to me that being an ACoA needs aggressive and long term treatment. Ignoring the damage only allows it to leak out in intimate relationships.
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 05.25.2011
The sad truth is that children who live with addicted parents get in the car with drunk moms and dads every day, just as Diane Schuler's children and nieces did the day they were killed.
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 05.25.2011
Both the narcissist and the addict are first and foremost self absorbed. They come first.
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 11.17.2011
When the attachment with a parent is fraught with fear, the child can become overly preoccupied with getting it right for the parent rather than for themselves.
Mike Doyle | Posted 05.25.2011
If there's anything I hate about recovery it's all the aphorisms that are bound up with it. I didn't want to hear another pithy saying. All I wanted was some iota of hope for the future.
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 11.17.2011
When we "know too much" and "do too little" discouragement follows.
Ethlie Ann Vare | Posted 04.11.2012