Tag: generational affects of codependency

Parenting When You Are Codependent: Breaking the Cycle

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Parenting When You're Codependent Breaking the Cycle of Codependency

  This article focuses on how parents can break the cycle of codependency by learning to parent differently. However, you can use these strategies even if you’re not a parent (or your children are grown). You can apply many of these parenting strategies to yourself. Yep! Sounds strange, but you can re-parent yourself by giving […]

The Generational Effects of Codependency

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Generational Effects of Codependency. Codependency is passed down from generation to generation. It's possible to be codependent if you had a normal childhood.

Codependency is most often the result of childhood trauma.  But many readers have written to me, confused because they’re codependent and had a “normal” childhood. “I don’t understand why I’m codependent. I’ve read your posts, but I didn’t grow up in a dysfunctional family. How did this happen?” “Is it possible to be codependent if […]