Living Codependency

Break Free From Over-Functioning, Over-Delivering, People-Pleasing, and Ignoring Your Own Needs So You Can Finally Live the Life You Deserve! Most of us were never taught how to effectively express our preferences, desires or deal-breakers. Instead, we hide our feelings behind passive-aggressive...

An inclusive, research-based guide to working the 12 steps: a trauma-informed approach for clinicians, sponsors, and those in recovery. Step 1: You admit that you're powerless over your addiction. Now what? 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) have helped...

Have you been dealing with a narcissist? Have you found their words, actions, and habits to be causing damage to your life? Are you trying to make things work with this narcissist? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you. We often encounter narcissists and other toxic individuals in our daily lives without knowing it. But when it’s out parent, spouse, friend, or even child, things can become a lot more complicated…and difficult. But I’m here to tell you that you are not alone. And there are ways to improve your situation, without removing the ...

Healing Together: A Compassionate Guide for Families Navigating Addiction This essential guide offers hope and practical help for families affected by a loved one's addiction. Understand addiction as a brain disease, not a moral failing. Learn to set healthy boundaries, communicate effectively, and find crucial support networks. Prioritize your own well-being with proven self-care strategies to break the cycle of stress and codependency. This book is your roadmap to coping, surviving, and healing—proving you are not alone and recovery is possible for the entire family.

This book is primarily focused on the adult child and parent relationship, though the material still applies to other types of codependent relationships. It will cover: • Why we become codependent • How to stop allowing other people's behavior to affect you • How to set and enforce healthy boundaries • How to detach

Are you tired of feeling weighed down by relationships, environments, and belongings that no longer bring you joy or fulfillment? Are you exhausted from trying to fit into roles and expectations that do not align with your true self? Are you longing for a sense of freedom and authenticity in your life, where you can let go of the old to make space for the new? Are you weary of holding onto past experiences and attachments that no longer serve your growth and well-being? Today, I Love Me isn’t just a self-help book, it’s a compassionate guide to rediscovering and embracing your true self...

If you love someone who lives in addiction, denial, emotional volatility, or chronic chaos, you already know what it feels like to live on alert. You monitor tone shifts. You calculate timing. You soften your words. You swallow reactions. You explain away behavior that unsettles you. You absorb consequences that were never yours to carry. You call it love. You call it patience. You call it loyalty. Over time, you begin to shrink. Boundaries and the Addict is written for the person who is exhausted from adapting to instability and is quietly beginning to question whether endurance is the ...

A heartbreaking American epic about three sisters who unearth lifetimes of family tensions as they are forced to rescue one of their own from peril, testing the limits of sacrifice, sisterhood, and forgiveness from the author of the “profound work of great wisdom” (Alice Elliott Dark) The...

Every limitation in our lives has been learned. Our beliefs were forged by those who didn’t believe in us, those who wanted to limit and control us. The Bible points out that all the boundaries in our lives are the fruit of the beliefs of our hearts! I have dedicated the last fifty years to developing biblically-based tools that help us move our boundaries by influencing the beliefs of our hearts. Establishing Your Heart: No More Boundaries will guide you step-by-step in identifying and establishing your heart in the core beliefs that shatter your boundaries. EVERY CHAPTER IS PACKED WITH:...

Do you love someone with an addiction? Are you hurting, overwhelmed, or losing yourself while trying to save them? If so—you’re not alone. Loving someone in active addiction can feel like living in a storm you never asked to enter. You may be desperate for answers, scrambling to keep life together, or trapped in the emotional rollercoaster of someone else’s destructive behaviour. Watching someone you love disappear into addiction is heartbreaking—like mourning a person who is still alive. But here’s the truth: Their addiction is harming you, too. You have the right to reclaim your...

Living with a Gambling Addict A real-life testimony about codependency and setting boundaries when gambling addiction enters your life. A heartfelt and revealing account of ten years living with a family member’s gambling addiction. This book offers guidance and hope for those who love someone struggling with gambling and need to learn how to protect themselves without losing their identity. How far should you go to help without losing yourself? This book is a first-person testimony by Patricia de León, who lived for a decade with her father’s addiction to slot machines. From her role ...

Dive deep into the heart of codependency and understand how childhood trauma shapes codependent patterns, and discover practical tools to identify and break free from toxic relationships. Miro's approach shines a light on the transformative power of healing from within.

This audiobook is about codependency and attempting to control addictions, opinions, and behaviors. It covers the concept of addiction to dysfunctional and toxic relationship processes, and identifies the main "process-drugs" people use to try to navigate through relationships. It discusses how one loses themselves in an attempt to find love and belonging in dysfunctional ways, and how this does not work for healthy relationships. After identifying the disease processes, this audiobook educates and guides the listener to practice daily living in the solution rather than in the problem.

Are you empathetic or codependent? Learn the difference with this guidebook, which offers suggestions to help you say "no" to the payoffs of codependency and break free from its destructive patterns. It is possible to let other people solve their own problems. It is possible to be empathetic to other people’s suffering without giving up yourself. You can give someone else a hand up - if that’s what they want - without letting them pull you down into the mud of their own choices.

Have you spent so much of your life taking care of others that you've forgotten how to take care of yourself? Many people mistake people-pleasing for kindness, self-sacrifice for love, and endurance for strength. Over time, these patterns create a quiet form of self-betrayal that leaves you exhausted, disconnected, and wondering why nothing feels right anymore. No Longer Living Against Myself is a deeply personal psychological exploration of what happens when you stop abandoning yourself to keep everyone else comfortable. Blending lived experience with psychological insight, this book ...

In Love That Lasts, New York Times bestselling author of Jesus > Religion Jefferson Bethke and his wife, Alyssa, expose the distorted views of love that permeate our culture and damage our hearts, minds, and souls. Drawing from Jeff’s “prodigal son” personal history and from Alyssa’s...

A lack of boundaries creates tension, stress, and anxiety—while healthy boundaries lead to less resentment and a feeling of safety and peace. In Protect Your Peace: How to Set Boundaries in a World Without Any, you’ll learn all about setting and maintaining boundaries with friends, loved ones, and co-workers.

La dependencia emocional tiene solución. Marcela Cuevas, doctora en Terapia Psicoanalítica, comparte contigo el método para liberarte de una vez por todas de esa relación tóxica o de esa adicción o conducta que no puedes soltar. A través de un método innovador, encontrarás la manera de llegar a la INTRADEPENDENCIA, un lugar donde el valor y la validación vienen desde tu interior. ¿Listo para empezar a vivir y dejar de sobrevivir?

Do you struggle with valuing yourself? Are you constantly plagued by feelings of guilt, shame, and low self-esteem? Did your childhood involve abuse and trauma, leaving you filled with bitterness, pain, fear, and self-hate? In this book, you will learn all there is to know about codependency, its origins, and how it can damage the lives of individuals and families.

Una experta en psicología revela: Cómo curar gradualmente el trastorno del apego en tu hijo, pariente, amigo o incluso en ti mismo y ¡comenzar a vivir una vida feliz, social y sin ansiedad que todos merecemos! En este audiolibro, te enseñaré algo llamado "Teoría del Apego", pero no me malinterpretes. Aunque se le llame teoría, encontrarás estrategias y herramientas especiales que podrás utilizar para ayudar a tu ser querido o a ti mismo para vivir esa vida libre de apego negativo, miedo y ansiedad con la que siempre haz soñado.