by Dr. Jane Ilene Cohen | Mar 25, 2017 | Healthy Relationships
What does passion mean to you? It can mean a lot of different things to different people: sexual passion, emotional passion, religious passion, passion about values… Passion is energy — uncontrolled, powerful energy, from the depths of our being. It is...
by Dr. Jane Ilene Cohen | Mar 19, 2017 | Healthy Relationships, Narcissism
People with the defense system of narcissism are usually in relationship with those who have a lot of self-hate. It is an interlocking emotional defense system* that both sides of the equation are holding in place. Below are excerpts of comments I said to two clients...
by Dr. Jane Ilene Cohen | Mar 19, 2017 | Healthy Relationships
This came up during a TimeLine session, with a client I’ll call Sarah (not her real name). Sarah said the other night her boyfriend had told her he was going to make dinner for her, but when she got home from work it wasn’t even started, and he was...
by Dr. Jane Ilene Cohen | Dec 31, 2016 | Codependency in Relationships, Healthy Relationships
Codependency in relationships happens when people don’t openly admit what they want from each other in reality because they have given up on the real thing, such as love, feeling valuable, or empowered. What they are attached to are symbols for what they want...
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