http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Lori+Klauser Self Help Lori Klauser Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=247963&ca=Self+Help Recovery from codependency means getting yourself and your life back. It is caring about you again. It is about reclaiming yourself and your life. Recovery is an internal agreement and a process that lasts a lifetime. Remember, yesterday’s choices are the consequences you live today. The choices are... Relationships Lori Klauser Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=209306&ca=Relationships A lot of the time as a codependent you get caught up in others lives. You become obsessed with another and you feel responsible for what happens in the others life. Your own life falls to the way side and you hardly notice. Your main concern sometimes is how your relationship appears to the outside... Self Help Lori Klauser Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=181565&ca=Self+Help There is hope that recovering codependents can have healthy fulfilling relationships. Once you accept your codependency and start work on your own life and yourself, you can begin building or rebuilding relationships with others. Never feel stuck in a relationship. Don’t stay stuck because of fear,... Self Help Lori Klauser Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=180619&ca=Self+Help Most of us had diaries when we were younger. We’d write about that cute boy in homeroom, vent our anger about our siblings, voice our feelings of unfairness about a grounding or restriction our parents enforced, or simply express our dreams for our future. Journaling has now been recognized to be m... Self Help Lori Klauser Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=180617&ca=Self+Help Codependency usually comes about as your response to another person’s chemical dependency. It revolves around your relationships with the people in your life. It involves the effects these people have on you. You, in turn, then try to affect them and their behaviors. As you begin to see them spirali... Self Help Lori Klauser Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=180618&ca=Self+Help Self-esteem occurs when you make a conscious decision to value yourself and not see yourself as being less valuable than others. It comes from inside of us. You still feel other emotions such as guilt, anger and fear, but your self-esteem stays undamaged. Your self-esteem may have become damaged in... Self Help Lori Klauser Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=180620&ca=Self+Help When you are feeling your lowest, I’m sure you can’t imagine one thing to be grateful for. When you think you are deprived, your feelings and thoughts revolve around what you don’t have. You may not believe you deserve for good things to happen to you. Being grateful and thinking along the lines of... Self Help Lori Klauser Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=181563&ca=Self+Help Codependents sometimes seem almost misplaced. You seem to have a hard time relating to whom you truly are and for that reason you have a hard time setting boundaries. You have a hard time saying no to people and you let people cross the line of what should be your boundaries and hurt you. You tend t... Self Help Lori Klauser Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=181568&ca=Self+Help When you come to realize that you are codependent, the feeling of shame might arise within you. You may feel that there is something wrong with you, that you are not good enough, that you have made large errors in judgment. Remember, you never have to apologize for who you are. You may have the need... Self Help Lori Klauser Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=181567&ca=Self+Help Have you ever wondered if it’s them that need to grow, change, be a better person and be more responsible or could it possibly be you? We are all responsible for our own lives. If you are living with a chemically dependent person, though, you may have taken on the role of caretaker. You may believe,...