Supporting vs Helping: Understanding Enabling Behaviours

Enabling behaviours are the end result of 'helping' another in a way that does not truly work. In particular when it comes to our closest loved ones, we often interchange the terms support and help as meaning the same thing. However, what if we considered there is an important difference between supporting someone and helping them?
If you see yourself as an enabler or that you are enabling someone in your life, that is only the start when it comes to understanding what helping is all about.
Psychologist Brendan Mooney clearly defines the difference between supporting vs. helping in this video, which is vital if we value not only our own but others’ health and wellbeing. For it may just be that the ‘helper’ is actually in it for their own self-interest and not truly to support the one they claim to be supporting…
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