We often associate grief with death. However, we can also experience grief when significant changes occur in our relationships with living people. These experiences are called living losses, and they ...

Co-dependence and love are not the same. That intoxicating feeling of can't-live-without-you devotion we romanticize in films? Often it's less a portrait of love and more a sketch of codependency—that ...

Codependency can be damaging to a relationship, leading to feelings of suffocation and dissatisfaction, even in what could otherwise be a healthy partnership. If you find it difficult to create space ...

As humans, we're meant to live in community—"villages," if you will. Receiving emotional and logistical support, such as having a few close friends to speak with about your grief over losing a parent, ...

I specialize in trauma recovery and integrative healing, drawing from evidence-based approaches such as EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Polyvagal Theory, as well as ...

It can be surprisingly hard to spot a codependent friendship—especially when we’re constantly fed idealized images of “ride or die,” inseparable duos who do everything together. That level of ...