Codependence

 

Codependence Therapy



Do you want to:

Be less perfect and more authentic?

Be childlike – innocent, pure, and beautiful – but not childish?

Be full of vitality, joy, enthusiasm and exuberance?

Find strength, power and courage inside yourself?

No longer seek approval from others, rather seek approval from yourself?

Find the voice inside yourself that guides you to your Highest Good?

Be willing to feel the pain to get to the joy?

Realize your inner source of wisdom and integrity, compassion and unconditional love?

Listen to your soul’s Dream and make it come true?

Believe in yourself, not wait for others to believe in you?

Be YOU?


Codependence therapy is healing your relationship with yourself - to recover your lost self-love, to truly know from the bottom of your soul who you are, to know what you want and don’t want in your life, to take active responsibility for yourself, to be your own best friend and to freely share who you are.






Pia Mellody, author of ‘Facing Codependence’, recognizes codependence as a damaged relationship with oneself leading to unhealthy relationships with other people.


Your damaged relationship with yourself looks like this:

1.Difficulties esteeming  yourself appropriately (self-love)

2.Difficulties knowing and expressing your reality (self-awareness)

3.Difficulties setting appropriate boundaries (self-protection)

4.Difficulties owning and meeting adult needs and wants (self-care)

5.Difficulties expressing your reality moderately (self-expression)


Your  codependent relationship with others look like this:

1.Control and manipulation

2.Victim mentality, resentment, powerless

3.Damaged spirituality

4.Avoiding reality, addictions

5.Difficulties with intimate relationships


In essence, codependence therapy is healing and building your relationship with yourself, which leads to healthier and better relationships with other people.


Through codependence therapy you start seeing life differently, and because you see life differently, you attach a different meaning to what's happening in your life, and therefore you react differently. You choose differently! And different choices, of course, lead to different results.









 
Read my articles 
Whom are you living you life for?
What exactly is codependence? 
Boundaries and the art of saying no 
Addictions, soft addictions and codependence
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