Posts by Leila Samrad

Here I am on the airplane, heading home to San Francisco after my transformative week at the The Meadows, and I am in full judgement mode. I’ve gone adaptive! Scapegoat, adolescent adaptive! If you want to know what means, you’ll have to investigate Pia Mellody‘s model of Developmental Immaturity, formerly known as Codependence. I highly…

Have you internalized the message that you have to stuff down your greatest joy? Have you somehow learned to avoid doing the things you most yearn to do while spending hours on things that feel like a drain of energy, or worse, just a filler while you avoid doing those things which deeply nourish your…