Did you grow up with a narcissistic parent? A fantastic book entitled Children of The Self Absorbed: A Grown-Ups Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents has the following description of what it was like for adult children of narcissists:
It’s all about you, and you make sure of that. Your wants, needs, and demands are [...]
The first step in managing emotions (“Manage” means to handle with a degree of skill) is to learn to identify and tune into feelings–both ours and other people’s. Recognizing and understand our own emotions is particularly important if we are to allow ourselves to feel them and express them. It is common to fall into [...]
The following is an excerpt adapted from the writings of Claudia Black concerning anger and addiction. Anger can be related to addiction/compulsivity in many ways. Several of the relationships between anger and addiction are listed below.
1. Acting-out in addiction can be passive-aggressive way of “getting back” at somebody else.
2. Unresolved anger toward a [...]
What is Family of Origin?
Family of Origin refers to the family that you grew up in (as opposed to the people you live with now) and includes your siblings and parents. It can include a grandparent or other relative or step-parents and step-siblings who lived with you during any part of your childhood. The [...]
What are family of origin issues? Doing family of origin work in therapy basically involves healing from the past in order to move forward in the present. It has been my experience both personally and professionally that many emotional and mental health issues are connected to family of origin experiences with [...]
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