The “strong Black woman” trope inspired therapist Quinn Gee-Edwards to publish a codependency recovery journal tailored for Black women. (Image courtesy of Quinn Gee-Edwards) Economic and cultural ...

You can conquer codependency. Recovery is a process and it can be overwhelming when you think about all the changes you want to make. But the good news is that recovery isn’t all or nothing.

In recovery, we recover our Selves. Codependency is also characterized by symptoms that vary on a continuum similar to those associated with drug addiction. They range from mild to severe and ...

Codependent relationships typically involve one partner, the “giver,” prioritizing the needs of another, the “taker.” Therapy may rebalance and heal codependent relationships. Or you may ...

The concept of codependency was just psychology jargon when Melody Beattie, an addiction-recovery counselor, began writing the manuscript for her first book, Codependent No More. This was long ...

TikTok videos on codependent relationships have hundreds ... people with addiction are taught that they have a disease and that recovery requires surrender to a “higher power,” moral inventory ...

This touches on the most classic context for this term and its point of origination: the addiction-recovery movement. When first defined, codependency described a person's emotional dependence on ...

It is during a recovery (sobriety) period that we see the sex addict as either a narcissistic sex addict or a codependent sex addict. What throws off an accurate statistical representation of ...

Jimmy Harney, the author of this piece, he mentioned so many elements of dating and choosing a partner that, in my codependency recovery, I had to address very consciously. In that world, ...