CODEPENDENCY RECOVERY
Get support for codependency recovery and move to a life beyond addiction
Codependency is the condition of the lost self.
More common than we think, codependency is being experienced at epidemic levels across the globe. It does not discern between age, culture, creed, gender, or economic status and in the words of Roslyn Saunders, Inner Help’s Codependency Recovery consultant, codependency is the ‘mother of all addictions’.
Codependency is present in normalised unhealthy behaviours and underpins all other addictions.
This includes addiction to substances like drugs and alcohol, as well as lifestyle addictions such as food, sex, work, drama, sickness, social media, shopping, gambling, exercise and relationships. These dependencies are all symptoms of unresolved codependency. Codependency becomes our identity and our focus, and like a person living in addiction to alcohol or drugs, it consumes our whole life.
We unconsciously use our codependency in cunning and manipulative ways to control and get attention or a negative form of love. We do this as a way to fulfil unmet emotional needs that developed during the formative years from birth to seven.
At Inner Help, we work with our clients to understand codependency by undertaking a practical program of change that addresses behaviours like:
Acknowledging any one or all these traits in your own behaviour is an important first step towards implementing support for codependency recovery, and moving towards a life free from addiction.
Are you concerned about they codependency is impacting your life? Connect with us at Inner Help for an initial 20-minute and confidential call to discuss how we can support your recovery.
Like any addiction, the pain of unmet needs, trauma, and being unable to manage the associated emotions all underpin codependency. An addiction that presents in many forms you might know or have experienced it as:
Codependency and addiction: What’s the connection?
Like all conditions, before it can be treated codependence must be identified. How do you know if you’re codependent? Although codependency is ‘invisible’, if you’re living in addiction in any area of life, there is a high probability unresolved codependency is sitting right underneath it.
That’s why at Inner Help, our approach incorporates both addiction and codependency recovery programs. Addressing addictive behaviours and codependency together makes for a recovery program that leads to lasting personal change.
Could facing codependency help with addiction recovery?
Facing addiction and codependency requires honesty about how these behaviours have affected, and are affecting, your life. Best done with support, it isn’t easys to acknowledge and accept the degree to which we have used people, places and things to replace the nurturing, acknowledgement, and approval that were perceived missing during the formative years from birth to seven.
By working with us at Inner Help, we will identify the root cause of your codependency and support you to navigate change away from maladaptive patterns to a healthier way of living.
Inner Help: Our approach to codependency recovery
When we are living in codependency, we can feel there is no way out. With decades of experience in codependency recovery, the team at Inner Help wants you to know sustainable recovery is possible. Our ethos is grounded in fundamental principles of practice.
Roslyn Saunders is a codependency recovery coach with many years of lived experience addressing her own codependency and dealing with the addictions of her children. Now having worked as a codependency recovery coach, Roslyn’s specialty is in helping clients identify, address and heal their codependency and relationship addiction, particularly with families who have a loved one living in addiction. Roslyn has developed a unique program that helps people find the courage to heal long-standing emotional pain and embrace a fulfilling, enjoyable and more manageable life.
Personalised Program
We personalise the program to suit your individual needs and circumstances. We explore one’s individual underlying root causes as no one addiction treatment should be standard or treated the same as every other addiction. We all have unique traumas and reasons why we’re not coping.
Family Support
We believe improving and rebuilding the connections with the relevant relationships around us contributes to the long-term success of an individuals treatment. We offer support calls to family members or loved ones involved in one’s treatment journey. Connection is a two-way street!
Learn Proven Methods
We take our similar lived experiences and apply as well as teach you strategies and methods we have successfully used on ourselves and others for treatment. We don’t use traditional or the ‘standard’ failed methods to treat addiction. Addiction treatment is a LIFETIME INVESTMENT!
Root Cause Therapy
We use alternative methods, where we work on finding the underlying causes of addiction rather than just treating the symptoms like you would traditionally. We don’t believe in just stopping or going ‘cold turkey’. There is a deeper root cause that we need to recognise in order to treat addiction.
