by Christy Aloisio | Apr 15, 2012 | Anger, Uncategorized
Marriage counseling is not really about fixing marriage. Sounds weird, yes I know. But marriage counseling is about fixing you. You are the only one that you can control, and you are the only one you can change. If two people come into my office wanting to fix their... by Christy Aloisio | Oct 27, 2011 | Addiction, Affairs
One day there was a man driving through the desert. A snake on the side of the road flags down the man as he is driving. The man pulls over and the snake says, “Would you be so kind as to give me a ride to town?” The man, who is kind of heart, thinks for a... by Christy Aloisio | Oct 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
I recently had someone comment that discussing codependency feels like “man bashing.” That some of the writing and talking I do about being independent and having power in a relationship feels like a feminist point of view. I did not take this comment... by Christy Aloisio | Aug 28, 2011 | Individual Therapy, Marital Therapy
Feel free to come into my office and vent. Vent all you want in therapy about your partner and how “they do this!” or “they don’t do this!” “They make me …” Go ahead, spew this all over my office, but I do have to give... by Christy Aloisio | Jul 8, 2010 | Codependent
What is it about codependency that makes it so easy to not see issues that are right in front of our face? Have you ever heard of the phrase, Walk like a duck, and sounds like a duck, so must be a duck. Seems to make perfect sense right? Well then why do we continue...