Personal growth is the lifelong journey of understanding ourselves more deeply, learning from our experiences, and making conscious choices about how we want to live. These reflections explore self-awareness, emotional healing, healthy boundaries, resilience, relationships, and the lessons that help us grow into more authentic versions of ourselves.
When Caring Becomes Carrying: What Codependency Taught Me About Love And Boundaries
I have a dear friend who lives in assisted living. Spending time there has caused me to think about something I understand all too well: the very thin line between caring deeply for another person and becoming responsible for things that are not ours to carry.
I see families who love one another deeply. Adult children trying to make life easier for aging parents.
Family members worrying, checking, helping, reminding, arranging, fixing, and sometimes stepping in before they have even been asked. There is nothing inherently wrong with any of that. We should care for the people we love. But sometimes caring can quietly become carrying. I recognize the difference because, for many years, I didn’t know there was […]