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Grief Work and Adult/Child Recovery

Grief Work and Adult/Child Recovery

Home Grief Work and Adult/Child Recovery Grief work and Adult/Child recovery often go hand-in-hand because growing up in a less-than-nurturing family system mean multiple losses – loss of relationships, loss of love, and loss of identity – in general, loss...
Grief Work and Adult/Child Recovery

Coping with Toxic Shame

Home Coping with Toxic Shame Coping with Toxic Shame is at the core of recovery from codependency, abandonment issues, and low self-esteem. Toxic shame is a term used to describe an excessive, unhealthy level of shame that causes emotional/interpersonal dysfunction...
Adult Children of Divorce

Adult Children of Divorce

Home Adult Children of Divorce Adult children of divorce, alcoholics, or other dysfunctional families share some of the same outcomes in their lives: problems with chronic depression, intimacy, and fears of abandonment. The “Inner Child” evolved from...
Thawing Issues that Cause Low Self Esteem

Thawing Issues that Cause Low Self Esteem

Home Thawing Issues that Cause Low Self Esteem Issues that cause low self-esteem frequently arise from unmet childhood dependency needs on people who do not get these needs met. This page is dedicated to covering the impact of unmet childhood dependency needs on...
Addictive Personality, The Iceberg Part Three

Addictive Personality, The Iceberg Part Three

Home Addictive Personality, The Iceberg Part Three The Addictive Personality in itself is a myth – there really is no such thing.However, personality traits that spring from abandonment, shame, and contempt can set a person up for multiple addictions – not...