Home Codependent Screening Instrument These codependent patterns and characteristics are offered as a tool to aid in self-evaluation. They may be particularly helpful for people who think they may be Codependent. Circle the question number for each “yes”...
Home Enabling Behavior is Loving Too Much Enabling behavior is born out of our instinct for love. It’s only natural to want to help someone we love, but when it comes to certain problems — helping is like throwing a match on a pool of gas. Review the...
Home Alcoholism Treatment and Recovery Good addiction and alcoholism treatment must take into account the stages of addiction, recovery, & the process of relapse. The chart below lays out the three critical processes everyone who wants to recover from addiction...
Home Who is an Addict, What is Addiction? Who’s an Addict and what is addiction?? It’s been said that in America if you CAN become an addict — you WILL become an addict — to something. Evidence for this is in the literally hundreds of 12-step...
Home Childhood Abandonment Issues This unified model of abandonment issues, Codependency, Adult Child Syndrome, alcoholism, and addiction, I call The “Iceberg” has evolved over the 30 years since I first began developing it as my practice model. I use it...