Co-dependency is sometimes called ‘relationship addiction’ because people with co-dependency tend to form or maintain relationships that are one-sided, emotionally destructive and/or... More > abusive. It is both an emotional and a behavioral condition which affects an individual’s ability to have healthy, mutually satisfying relationships.
Those who have completed this workshop will be able to recognise the basic characteristics of co-dependency, work with definitions to bring awareness and teach clients the basics of mental and emotional self care; assist clients in exploring early childhood issues and their relationship to current destructive behavior patterns; help clients get in touch with feelings that have been buried during childhood and use kinesiology techniques to defuse the past from the present to allow them to experience their full range of feelings again and with new skills reconstruct healthy personal and family dynamics.< Less
Popular psychology / therapy / health / education.
"Choosing the temporary discomforts of desire over the permanent discomforts of possession."
A guide for health professionals,... More > patients, clients, and the lay public on working with addictions, compulsions, and dependencies in any of their multifarious forms and at any of their many levels, from the apparently harmless to the destructively complex.
Part I is about understanding the systemic nature of addiction. Part II deconstructs the bodymind stages of becoming addicted. Part III is about therapist issues around the subject. Part IV, client issues. Part V explains how to resolve addictive contradictions (e.g. “I can’t give up and I must give up”). Part VI offers a systematic information activating and changework questionnaire for facilitators of all kinds, from self-helpers to experienced therapists.< Less
This is a workbook and reference manual designed specifically for women. This book contains a proven ten stage program that will enable you to recover from the addictive behavior of co-dependency,... More > and at the same time address the problems of low self-esteem. After the successful completion of this program you will realize and discover that forming and maintaining a close relationship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is essential if you want to have the answers for living a full and abundant life.< Less
This is a workbook and reference manual designed specifically for women. This book contains a proven ten stage program that will enable you to recover from the addictive behavior of co-dependency,... More > and at the same time address the problems of low self-esteem. After the successful completion of this program you will realize and discover that forming and maintaining a close relationship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is essential if you want to have the answers for living a full and abundant life.< Less
Christine is a young girl struggling with issues of co-dependency due to her mother’s fight with schizophrenia. Must she be her mother’s keeper? She loses at love once, then has to... More > struggle a second time to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. My Mother’s Keeper is a story of loving, learning, maturing, and developing in spite of overwhelming trials. Can she learn her own self-worth and mature into a healthy young adult?< Less
Christine is a young girl struggling with issues of co-dependency due to her mother’s fight with schizophrenia. Must she be her mother’s keeper? She loses at love once, then has to... More > struggle a second time to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. My Mother’s Keeper is a story of loving, learning, maturing, and developing in spite of overwhelming trials. Can she learn her own self-worth and mature into a healthy young adult?< Less
Do you have a relationship addiction? Are you in a co-dependent relationship that is emotionally destructive, or even abusive? Do you keep getting into the same unhappy relationship over and over,... More > with one partner after another?
Lovers want to spend every minute together, and ache for each other when they are apart. They believe the ache means they are in love. But all too often, what they thought was love was an addiction to the good feelings of togetherness. When their connection ends, they float off, angry and hurt, in search of yet another relationship.
Reaching for Wholeness leads you on a quest to find a lasting relationship with yourself, and personal wholeness that can change every relationship in your life.
Finnamore addresses behaviour patterns such as anger, fear, people-pleasing, and difficulty recognizing feelings, as well as assertiveness, burnout, self-acceptance, and the struggles of relationships.< Less
Do you have a relationship addiction? Are you in a co-dependent relationship that is emotionally destructive, or even abusive? Do you keep getting into the same unhappy relationship over and over,... More > with one partner after another?
Lovers want to spend every minute together, and ache for each other when they are apart. They believe the ache means they are in love. But all too often, what they thought was love was an addiction to the good feelings of togetherness. When their connection ends, they float off, angry and hurt, in search of yet another relationship.
Reaching for Wholeness leads you on a quest to find a lasting relationship with yourself, and personal wholeness that can change every relationship in your life.
Finnamore addresses behaviour patterns such as anger, fear, people-pleasing, and difficulty recognizing feelings, as well as assertiveness, burnout, self-acceptance, and the struggles of relationships.< Less
A book of poetry for adult children of controlling parents. Parents that won't let you be, won't let you make your own decisions, mistakes, or choices in life. A light-hearted read of the emotional... More > ups and downs that came out of my struggle to live my own life, without hurting someone else's feelings.
A few happy, sad, funny, hopefully powerful and mostly rhyming poems for people to enjoy.< Less
