4 Tips To Manage Your Controlling Mom

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Is Your Mom Controlling? Let me begin by saying there’s a difference between a mom who has healthy concern for her daughter and a controlling mom who has to manage everything about her daughter. A controlling mom goes way beyond the normal authority a mother should have around her daughter. A controlling mom can be […]

Codependency And Enabling: Forever Linked

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Codependency And Enabling: Are You A Victim Codependency and enabling mean that your relationship (or relationships) is based on too much closeness and worry about someone, and you do more for them than you should. That’s a simple explanation, but what is it and how do you get there? Before we get into it, let’s […]

How To Stop Being An Enabler

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You’re An Enabler And Are Desperate To Stop What Can You Do Don’t be distressed because this is a great place for an enabler to be. Once you understand how enabling works and know it’s doing more harm than good in whatever situation you’re in, you can stop. Now, I’ll be honest and say it […]

Do You Have A Gaslighting Partner

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Let’s Begin With The Obvious Questions – What Is Gaslighting “Gaslighting is an insidious form of manipulation and psychological control. Victims of gaslighting are deliberately and systematically fed false information that leads them to question what they know to be true, often about themselves. They may end up doubting their memory, their perception, and even […]

My Sober Birthday: We Wrote A Book About It

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My 16th Sober Birthday: Our Triumph Over Dysfunction My daughter Lindsey and I got sober, launched a website, produced documentaries, broke up for 4 horrible years and when we got back together, we wrote some books. What a spring and summer we have had in my 16th sober birthday year. Our book, The Mother Daughter […]