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Dec 20, 20247 min read
A Life Without Relationships: The Dependency Paradox, Trauma, and Parentification
Chloe was a single, independent, and successful businesswoman who had travelled the world as part of her expat career. She was a...
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Dec 7, 20249 min read
Parentification: The Trauma of High Performers, Perfectionists, and Workaholics
Perfectionism, workaholism, and high performance are traits often caused by the childhood trauma of parentification.
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Nov 27, 20248 min read
The Sense of Unworthiness and How It Impacts Relationships
The experience of unworthiness affects not only how one perceives themselves but also their relationships, past, present, and future.
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Oct 16, 20247 min read
Reluctance to Engage in Psychotherapy and Resistance to Change
Many will end up hesitating or never engaging in psychotherapy because of their unconscious fear of change.
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Sep 20, 20248 min read
Attachment to Trauma and Toxic Relationships
Attachment to trauma is an emotional attachment to childhood trauma that may be continuously re-enacted in adult relationships.
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Aug 23, 202412 min read
What Is Love? Unconscious Fantasies and the Couple’s Capacity for Intimate and Mature Love
The capacity for mature adult love is not an absence of an unconscious fantasy but the ability to hold and contain them in the relationship.
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Jun 11, 20248 min read
How Unconscious Fantasies Influence Romantic Relationships
Unconscious fantasies guide, colour, and shape our romantic relationships. But because they are unconscious, we usually remain oblivious...
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Jun 4, 202413 min read
Narcissism: Subtypes and the Relationship With Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)
Narcissism is a term which is often colloquially misunderstood, misused, and carries a negative value connotation to describe someone who...
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May 30, 202411 min read
The Loneliness and Pain of the Parentified Child
Parentification is a phenomenon that occurs when there is a reversal of roles between the parent and the child. This can be in the form...
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May 21, 202411 min read
Effects of Childhood Trauma on Adult Romantic Relationships
Difficulties with close relationships, especially romantic relationships, are some of the most common presenting issues in psychotherapy....
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May 9, 202415 min read
Parentification and the Childhood Trauma of the Parentified Child
Individuals who may seem excessively independent, resilient, self-reliant, dependable, workaholic, or committed to taking care of others,...
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Apr 13, 20246 min read
Subjective Experience of Emptiness
The subjective experience of emptiness or inner emptiness is a psychological symptom in which an individual feels a sense of hollowness...
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Apr 10, 20248 min read
Codependency and the Dynamics of Codependent Relationships
Codependency is a controversial mental health concept more often used in colloquial rather than professional mental health settings. It...
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Apr 2, 202410 min read
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a complex mental health condition that affects how a person experiences themselves and how they...
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Mar 31, 20247 min read
Childhood Trauma
Childhood trauma refers to adverse experiences that occur during a person's early years. These experiences can have lasting effects on an...
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Mar 23, 20246 min read
Personality Disorders
Personality disorders can have a profound impact on an individual's life, affecting their sense of self, relationships, work, and overall...
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Mar 23, 20243 min read
Complex PTSD and Trauma
Complex PTSD, also known as C-PTSD, is a mental health condition that develops in response to either a single traumatic event, but more...
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Jul 6, 20235 min read
The Sense of Meaning and Purpose
The sense of meaning and purpose is, in various forms, one of the most common themes in psychotherapy. For many, it is present as they...
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Jun 2, 20237 min read
The Hidden Faces of Dependency
It may seem that a person who avoids commitment may have nothing in common with someone that continuously clings to others. Or, yet...
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