Daisy, my Border Collie and heroine of My Life as a Border Collie: Freedom from Codependency, turned 17 years-old this past April 15th. We don’t really know her birth date as she was a stray dog, but working with the best estimates of her age...
Read moreLying on the Floor of the Veterinarian’s Treatment Room
There I was, lying on the floor of the veterinarian’s treatment room. Not Daisy. She was doing quite well with the procedure Dr. Keating was performing on her. I was the one overcome by it all and dysfunctional at that moment: a codependent in...
Read moreCodependency: Conversations, Possibilities, and Letting Go
Touring around with My Life as a Border Collie: Freedom from Codependency certainly provides me with many opportunities to talk with others about the book and to imagine various ways the book could be used: individually, in book clubs, for group...
Read moreWarning: Codependency Tangled with Codependency
In November, I presented a session at the Carolinas Conference on Addiction and Recovery in Morganton, NC. My session was entitled “Working with Codependent Behaviors: Guiding Lights to Recovery.” I had excellent participants in my session, most...
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