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How I finally kicked my co-dependent relationship to the kerb

February 21, 2011 By 20 Comments
Strong & independent or insecure & needy?

Who'd've thought? Strong, independent, courageous Moi was stuck in a co-dependent relationship. Yep, me neither. Despite getting wind of this fact about halfway through our 3 year or so relationship, it took me another 18 months to break the pattern. Which in the end meant breaking off the relationship. This relationship had been increasingly volatile ever since I got back from Prana Flow yoga teacher training in LA. I'd made a commitment to myself on the return plane flight that I … [Read more...]

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How yoga helped me… recover from drug and alcohol addiction

November 22, 2010 By 1 Comment
Looking for belonging

This is an on-going series of yoga stories from readers about how yoga has made a difference their life. To contribute your story, click here. Submitted by Clare S. (not her real name) of New Zealand Coming from a dysfunctional family, it is not really a surprise that I got involved with punk rockers and street kids in my early teens. I felt a sense of belonging, I was needed. I brought them food and snuck them home for showers and meals. It didn't take long for me to get into the … [Read more...]

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Journeys with Satyananda in Rikhia – one yogi tells all

July 2, 2009 By 4 Comments
Satyananda yogi Tyag in padmasana

by guest author Christopher Gladwell There was a time in my life when there was so much unresolved emotional trauma that I sought to dampen the pain of being alive. I don’t know if you have ever been through this or indeed if you still regularly seek anaesthetic experiences? For me, this manifested in some serious addictive behaviour with alcohol and narcotics to begin with, the drive towards truth moving me out of this addiction, I fell into addictive behaviour with food, … [Read more...]

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