by Sherry Gaba | Jan 19, 2017 | Codependency, Fear, Relationships, Stress
When I started my recovery, my life was full of tons of failed relationships. Time after time, an issue would arise, and the friendship would be over. When an issue arose, I would either run for the hills, or suffer in silence and pretend there was not a problem....
by Sherry Gaba | Jan 10, 2017 | Fear
FOMO: Fear of missing out. We’ve all experienced this phenomenon in one way or another. Maybe you didn’t want to come inside and do chores as a kid because you didn’t want to miss anything. Or maybe the travel photos on all of your friends’...
by Sherry Gaba | Oct 11, 2016 | Fear, Psychotherapy
Denial…It ain’t just a river in Egypt! The degrees of it in our lives vary, but I firmly believe that every single human on Earth has experienced it at some point in our lives. This is because, for a time, denial serves us. We deny what we cannot accept or...
by Sherry Gaba | Sep 10, 2016 | Abuse, Codependency, Fear, Psychotherapy
Many of us have heard the phrase, “When you point your finger at someone else, remember you have three fingers pointed back at you.” It took me a long time to truly get an understanding for this phrase. It wasn’t until going into recovery for...
by Sherry Gaba | Aug 11, 2016 | Abuse, Codependency, Fear, Psychotherapy, Relationships
When we are choosing the people in our lives, we like to pick ones that comfort us and support us in our times of need. Part of our relationships with these people means supporting them as well. Some of us don’t really know what it means to be supportive, and we...
by Sherry Gaba | Aug 4, 2016 | Abuse, Codependency, Fear, Psychotherapy, Relationships
For a long time, there was a point in our lives where the things we were saying were not being heard. Nobody was listening, and we didn’t understand. But we saw our mothers and fathers get things done in more evasive ways. They never came out and said directly...
