Publisher's Synopsis
Have you ever been a people-pleaser, trapped by your own over commitments to come to the rescue of everyone around you, and work to ensure everyone else's happiness but your own?
Do you find yourself always in the position of being a caretaker, sacrificing your own needs in favor of someone else's, and taking on other people's responsibilities and consequences?
Finding ourselves constantly attracting the same types of low-functioning people who are always in some sort of "crisis" and we're always coming to their rescue. Or maybe your relationship starts off great and you feel happy, but at some point, you find yourself in a position where you get wrapped up in your partner's life, and push aside your own goals, dreams, and habits.
Don't worry, this book will help you avoid codependency at all stages of a relationship. It will help you eliminate codependency in a current relationship, heal from the ending of a codependent relationship, and prevent getting into a codependent relationship in the future. Together find out:
- How to practice saying no and enforcing boundaries
- How to reframe your thoughts to empower yourself
- Guide to preventing future codependent behavior
- Seven steps to heal from a codependent relationship
- How to reclaim your self-esteem and self-confidence
- The key to avoiding getting back into another codependent relationship
- How to free yourself from the guilt of refusing
- How to salvage a codependent relationship and turn it around
- How to identify which type of codependent you - Why your codependency isn't your fault
- The surprisingly innocent behavior you may have done as a child that is causing codependent behavior in adulthood
- Sneaky ways codependency shows up in relationships and the harmful codependent