"Clear and firm boundaries and doing your own work!"This is what I answered when a friend recently interviewed me. The question was something like What are the key things a new coach or therapist (or a workshop leader – my…
He fell asleep on the bus and missed his stop.The old man got off at a bus depot in the middle of nowhere.He felt lost. It was already dark.A sweet couple walking home from a theater show saw him and…
I got a message few days back that read:"I really enjoyed reading this email/newsletter… And, I also really enjoyed watching Love Boat and Hill Street Blues as a kid too (and Fantasy Island!)."Read the newsletter here in case you missed…
This blog post is written by Radical Honesty practitioner Sanni Lehto from Finland. One of the biggest struggles of my life has been living with a chronic illness. About ten years ago, I was diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease. Since…
On Tuesday afternoon, Pete and I heard some news we didn’t want to hear. I immediately noticed a sinking sensation in my belly, like a huge stone sitting in it. Tightness, heaviness and pain in my stomach. I was noticing…
Two weeks ago I wrote about How to Be an Adult in Relationships and I got this response from Kirsi and she gave me permission to publish it: ”Your newsletter touched me a lot. The most important sentence for me…
Lately I have been reading the book How to be an Adult in Relationships, by David Richo. Some parts of the book I really like and find both useful and inspiring. And parts of it I hate. The book talks…
For the past two weeks, I have been writing about codependency, which can be a triggering and depressing topic, especially if you recognize codependent behaviors in yourself and/or your loved ones. (You can read those texts here.)I had received a request to write…
Last week I wrote about codependency and gave a list of 12 signs of codependent behavior. What thoughts are arising for you right now reading the word codependency? Codependency, which is sometimes called relationship addiction, is an excessive, all-consuming dependency on a specific relationship or sometimes several…
Do you judge yourself to be codependent? Do you tend to focus a lot more on another person rather than yourself?Do you make what they want more important than what you want? Of course we as humans depend and rely on others for support,…