Essentials: Are You Blended Or Solid In Your Sense of Self?
Essentials: Are You Blended Or Solid In Your Sense of Self? The fawn response focuses our mind and awareness outside ourselves. In my work, I
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What Replaces Codependency As You Heal?
Codependency is a strategy the body creates in order to preserve a sense of safety, connection, and self-worth within a chaotic, unsafe, unreliable relationship. The
Why You Care About What Other People Think And What To Do About It
You can listen to the Podcast and YouTube version here: “I’m not supposed to care what people think” Do you try to get yourself to
Self-trust Is Healing Work
Self-trust has taken me into an important, delicate arena of trauma and connection. This arena is the space of social attachment. This presents itself as
Self-trust & One’s Sense of Worth
From a codependent perspective, one’s worth is dependent on what an external authority or person says or does, or doesn’t say or do. Sometimes the
Self-Trust & Natural Completeness
The idea that one’s value is fully determined by their utility (aka productivity or how much they please another) is the root of one’s sense
Confronting The Codependent Fantasy
“What is real?” This is a question that frequently shakes me when clients and students ask it to me.The asking of it reveals the deep
Feeling Safe In My Body Looks Like…
What does feeling safe in my body look like? It looks like: – Me responding with care to my emotions when they arise. This care
The 5 Truths
I thought I’d never heal from my need for codependency. After all, it was how I loved others. It was how I felt loved, seen,
Is it fawning or is it love?
The fawn response can induce feelings of affection within a survivor towards an abuser or threat. These feelings motivate the survivor to appeal and please