Breaking Free from Codependency: How to Recognize the Signs and Overcome a Codependent Relationship - Paperback

by Richard Banks (Author)

Do you find yourself constantly trying to please other people? Are you the go-to person for everyone else's problems? Do you put up with an unhealthy relationship because you fear being alone or abandoned?
Recovery from codependency is not only possible but also liberating. You can kick this codependency habit and put an end to the unhealthy cycle.

What is codependency? - and is it really all that bad? This book aims to serve as an introduction to codependency to help readers learn more about what codependency is, how it manifests in relationships, and what you can do to help yourself or others dealing with codependent relationships. Codependency is not only limited to emotionally intimate relationships. It can affect a spouse, a parent, a friend, a sibling, or a coworker of a person struggling with alcohol or drug dependence.

When you are codependent, you are over-focused on others and aren't happy unless they are happy. This leads to you being dependent on them for emotional validation and support. Eventually, you become exhausted, resentful, and angry about the situation. The world needs giving, loving, and compassionate people. However, you also deserve to experience the same in return. The cycle of receiving and giving is sometimes difficult for people who are codependents because they're often in one-sided relationships. And when you continue to enable this, despite your best intentions, it deprives the person you're sheltering of the lessons they need to learn and grow. The truth is, you can only give so much for so long before you start suffering. Being in this dynamic holds you back from your authentic path and purpose.

In this book, you'll learn how to expand your consciousness to become the kind of person who naturally communicates boundaries confidently. Instead of operating from past traumas and survival responses, you'll learn to open your heart and engage more vulnerability, compassionately and consciously, in every relationship.Codependency is not a life sentence. It's simply a behavior pattern you can break with information, practice, and guidance.
This book will reveal the underlying reasons you struggle with overgiving and overdoing so you can pour your energy into creating your best life. It will help you uncover what you actually want and help you re-write the manual on how you treat yourself.

You'll start to take small steps to build real self-awareness, self-knowledge, and self-love so you can stop looking to others and what you do for them to fulfill you.This book will help you:

• Understand what codependency is and understand its roots
• Learn practices and personal skills needed to overcome codependence
• Recognize when a relationship is toxic (abusive, narcissistic, and codependent)
• Discover unhealthy relationship patterns and how to overcome them
• Set strong boundaries
• Learn how to break the cycle of codependency and begin the recovery process
• Learn how to start trusting yourself again and build real self-worth

As we heal from codependency, we learn to understand that we cannot control what other people think about us. We also learn to understand the value of appreciating our feelings. For far too long, we have been suppressing, denying, minimizing, or devaluing what we think, feel, need, want, and believe.

Release yourself from the bonds of relying on someone else to fulfill your need to feel important, loved, cared for, and taken care of.

Break free from over-functioning, over-delivering, people-pleasing, and ignoring your own needs so you can finally live the life you deserve!

Pour your energy into creating your best life!

You deserve to be happy.
You deserve to be your own best support.
You get to decide how people are allowed to treat you.