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Episode 5: What is codependency and why does it matter?

The Best of You

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Keeping the Other Person From Doing Their Own Work

There's a corps wound inside the sense of self that keeps us from focusing on our own needs. We devote ourselves to fixing other people's pains, other people's problems and it's at the exclusion of ourselves. Let's say you are married to some one who has a really bad emper - most of your emotional energy is invested in smoothing the waters after they've made a big mess. You're not even aware of how exhausted you are, of how your own life isn't live right.

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