Have you been totally stuck in your thoughts? Have your perceptions created your reality? Have you wondered why some people can change their thinking? Maybe you have never heard of perception reframing, but let’s talk about what it means and how it can help you if you find yourself […]
Questions
Why does my husband/partner seem so checked out all the time? Why can’t I get my husband/partner to have sex with me? Why do I feel like I am not enough for my husband/partner? How do I know if my husband/partner has a sexual addiction? So many women have questions […]
Questions Partner’s of Sex Addicts Ask
Are you burned out on life? If you are the partner of a sex addict–chances are good that you are. Have you been taking care of everything, trying to keep it all together? Are you ready to throw in the towel, and give up? Are you frustrated that nothing ever […]
Partner Recovery and Codependency
Strategies for Healing Hearts is a nonprofit ministry that seeks to restore families that are wounded by addiction and abuse. We do address the addict’s needs and have coaching that will facilitate change. Families affected by addiction live in the shadow of the ‘elephant in the living room’ scenario, where […]
Strategies for Healing Hearts
How do you deal with feeling overwhelmed in your life? Do you go into control mode and make sure everything is managed, or do you fall apart and let everything go until the chaos becomes so bad that you break under the pressure? It is certainly true that the world […]
How do You Deal with Feeling Overwhelmed?
People have a hard time understanding why it is unhealthy to help people. There really is nothing wrong with helping people. It is Christmas time, nearly all of us find ourselves helping others at this time of year. But what is healthy and what is not, that is that question? […]
What’s Wrong with Wanting to Help People?
If you have been codependent all of your life, can you ever really get over it? Can you get over the drive to fix or rescue the addict in your life? I believe that you can, but it is going to take some work on your part. First of all […]
Once Codependent–Always Codependent?
Do you know what conflict management is? It is when you are the one who is trying to keep everyone around you happy. You make it your responsibility to keep everyone happy at the expense of your own feelings, your own needs, your own desires. When you manage the conflict […]
Conflict Management and Codependency
Are you burned out on life? If you are the partner of a sex addict–chances are good that you are. Have you been taking care of everything, trying to keep it all together? Are you ready to throw in the towel, and give up? Are you frustrated that nothing ever […]
How Has Codependency Ruined Your Life?
Partners of sex addicts are continually needing to evaluate the status of their relationship, and their reasons for staying. That is why it is important to get counseling help to address the codependency side of addiction. Do you know the difference between ‘care-taking’ and ‘care-giving’? They are two very different […]