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| Barnes & Noble on the Duke of Gloucester Street, Williamsburg, VA | , 2011 |
I am not doing this to sell books. I am doing this because
as I am out in the world talking to people and as I am at home functioning as a
wife and mother, I keep seeing many of us struggle with questions about how
much to help others and when to stop helping; when to step back from my involvement
in someone else’s space/life and into my own world/life; when to move away from
my preoccupations with others and back into attending to things I need to do
for my self.
Since I last blogged, I have had two wonderful opportunities
to do book signings: one at the William & Mary Bookstore/Barnes & Noble
in Williamsburg, VA on the Duke of Gloucester Street and the
other in Washington, DC at the American Psychological
Associations annual convention. Both were powerful times with many
conversations about tangles and disentangling with people talking about:
raising their
children.
adult children
returning home.
helping friends.
sibling problems.
workplace
conflicts.
leaving job.
living with
addictions.
their own
recovery.
their own
over-functioning.
Both the general public and professionals in our fields of
mental health and addictions have been eager to talk with me, often not
necessarily about Disentangle,
itself, but about their own situations and stories.
These are very important questions for us each to be willing
to bring into our awareness and then see what we want to do about our self and
our role in entanglements. I still maintain that codependence is a sleeper
topic in our fields and that ironically, it is quite a fundamental problem that
feeds the more predominant problems such as anxiety, depression, and
addictions.
So keep your questions and stories coming. The more we look
at codependent behaviors and what we can do about them, the closer we can get
to good mental health.
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