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Improve Your Relationships with These Couples Counselling Calgary Tips

Relationships, Relationships & Codependency / Paige Abbott

Relationships require work, and sometimes we forget this and coast on autopilot. If you are looking to revitalize, refresh, and improve your relationships with loved ones, whether friends, family members, and/or romantic partners, our couples counselling Calgary therapists have you covered. Based on our experience as professionals, personally, as well as from educational and self-help […]

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Codependency Counselling Calgary: 7 Strategies for a Healthy Life

Relationships & Codependency / Paige Abbott

Codependency, while not an official mental health diagnosis, is a term used to explain imbalanced relationships where one person inadvertently enables and participates in another person’s unhealthy behaviours, which are often connected with addiction, mental health, or poor physical health. Those seeking out Codependency Counselling Calgary and beyond can learn more about what codependency is,

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5 Steps to Healing from Codependency

Relationships, Relationships & Codependency, Sex and love issues / Paige Abbott

What is codependency? Historically, someone who struggled with codependency was caretaking a loved one with severe illness and/or Addiction. They focus all time, energy, and resources on that loved one and leave little to no energy for themselves. Today, this understanding of codependency can be expanded to anyone who struggles with a dependence or over-reliance

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How it Feels On the Good Side of a Narcissist

Depression & Mood Issues, Relationships, Relationships & Codependency, Trauma & PTSD / Paige Abbott

There is lots of discussion in popular media about narcissism and narcissists. What is a narcissist? In a nutshell, they are somebody who can be very manipulative, cold (though act warm and charming as part of their manipulation), calculating, controlling, and lacking empathy. Inherently they are very unhealthy within themselves but do not see this

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When Is it Time to Say Good-bye?

Relationships & Codependency, Sex and love issues / Paige Abbott

Some people spend time and attention getting to know the signs that it is time to start a relationship: There is mutual interest and attraction; you are feeling a connection to the person; you would like to get to know that person more; you have the energy and time to enter into a relationship. As

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Stashes

Addiction, Alcohol use, Drug use, Eating disorders, Gambling, Relationships, Relationships & Codependency, Sex and love issues / Paige Abbott

In a previous blog post, I wrote about ‘The Dopamine Chase’ and how our brains can seek out increasing amounts of dopamine. Dopamine is the neurotransmitter that tells our brain when something was rewarding and that we should do it again (and probably more of it). This can come from feelings, relationships, substances, food, and

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What is Detachment with Love?

Relationships, Relationships & Codependency, Sex and love issues / Paige Abbott

Boundaries are something that I often here people are not comfortable with. Usually it is because they have not had practice or exposure to the language of boundaries. I suspect another reason for the discomfort is that boundaries seem to have the connotation of being “bad” as they often imply distance and disconnect, which can

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Codependency Self-Test

Addiction, Relationships, Relationships & Codependency, Sex and love issues / Paige Abbott

Wondering whether or not you may be struggling from codependency? Please read the statements below and answer whether these are true or false for you within the past 3 months. 1. I find myself more often than not irritated, frustrated, and reactive 2. My reactions are often strong and may not have an apparent reason

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Relapsing in Codependency

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Codependency, or Addiction involving relationships, is just as much a part of Addiction as drug use, alcohol use, gambling, or other manifestations. Yet, it often gets a bad wrap, is consistently misunderstood and not placed in the Addiction category. Today, I am here to tell you that Addiction involving relationships is just as much a

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Getting Unstuck From a Past Relationship

Relationships, Relationships & Codependency, Sex and love issues / Paige Abbott

It’s amazing how long we can carry a relationship in our heads and hearts and continue to live as though we are in the relationship at that moment, yet it ended days, weeks, months, and even years before. What creates this stuckness? Our brain and attachment is what hooks us in and keeps us trapped.

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