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Isabel Kirk is a bilingual mental health counselor psychotherapist offering individual and group services in the Washington DC metropolitan area and distance counseling (online and phone).
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Are you familiar with the term codependency? Have you ever been labeled codependent? If so, it probably didn’t leave you with a good feeling. The term has developed a negative connotation that implies needy, clingy, and even sick. In this month when we celebrate love, I wonder what we are celebrating and what love is all about. Love…what’s love? That is the question. A word that causes the biggest happiness but can also cause the biggest misery in our lives, especially when we don’t know what it means, misuse it to achieve personal [...] Loneliness is a universal phenomenon. Understanding this basic but not so simple truth is an important step in order to grow in life, strengthen our self-esteem and, improve our relationships. As existentialist, Victor Frankl considers loneliness part of the paradox that describes the human condition: “Humans are existentially both alone and related.” Therefore we need [...] Relationships are a beautiful thing but they can also be challenging. I love a cartoon that reads as follow: “Relationships: a mess worth making.” It very well illustrates how many times relationships can be messy or unhealthy. The main cause of unhealthy relationships? Unhealthy boundaries. When talking about relationships we are talking about psychological boundaries. [...] One of the biggest problems my clients complain about everyday is not that the person they love hurt them or did something wrong. It is the fact that the person didn’t apologize or the apology did not feel sincere. Let’s face it. We don’t really know how to apologize and the problem is that it [...] |
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