Are you an enabler? What is an enabler? What can a person do to stop enabling? The following is a guest post by Darlene Lancer, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and author of How To Speak Your Mind – Become Assertive and Set Limits, Codependency for Dummies and 10 Steps to Self-Esteem: The Ultimate… Continue Reading
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Enabler. Codependent. What Do These Terms Really Mean?
Enabler, Codependent, Enabling. What are you talking about? When I was first “assigned” these labels in 2003 while attending family therapy group sessions at the residential treatment center my loved one had entered for alcoholism, I more than flinched. I downright declared, “Are you kidding? Not me! I’m just trying to help and keep it… Continue Reading
Codependency & Enabling Explained by Ken P. and Bob T.
Codependency and enabling are confusing to most people. They are not words you generally hear unless you are somehow connected to the addiction recovery world. And even in the addiction recovery world, they are not a term that makes a whole lot of sense because they’re used to describe what happens to family members and… Continue Reading