Intersections of Healing: A Deep Dive with Two Recovering Codependents
Jesse and Lindsay pick right back up from their last chat (see Episode 7) and go deeper sharing their challenges, setbacks and progress in their relationships with others, and themselves. Both share raw reflections from their recovery. You’ll want to listen to this insightful discussion that include the following topics:
Self-Neglect and Friendships: Discussion on the tendency to prioritize others over oneself, stressing the importance of setting personal boundaries and recognizing self-worth in relationships.
Internalized Criticism: How self-criticism can mimic external abusive voices, leading to the need for radical acceptance.
Self-Compassion: Emphasizing the need for self-care and addressing basic needs, contrasting the tendency, especially in women, to prioritize others.
Impact of Trauma: Exploration of how early attachment issues predispose individuals to repetitive trauma and toxic relationships.
Amends with Oneself: The need for self-forgiveness and returning to self-awareness following self-neglect.
Codependency and Recovery: Lindsay shares some CoDA literature she found differentiating between behaviors of codependency and recovery – helpful to anyone who wonders what true recovery behaviors look like.
Understanding Feelings: Discussion on emotional awareness, referencing Brene Brown’s “Atlas of the Heart” work on understanding a wide range of emotions.
Velcro-Teflon Theory: The need to linger on positive experiences intentionally to counteract the mind’s tendency to hold onto negative ones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwPvynau2oY
Identity and Values: Emphasizing the significance of maintaining personal values and identity during recovery.
Positive Reflection: The significance of positive affirmations and supportive environments in aiding recovery and self-identity.
Jesse / Nurse Jesse
Jesse is a mom, daughter, sister, friend, and also a recovering codependent. Jesse promotes, trains, fosters and develops new dimensions of life in others. Her passion and authenticity has participants feeling as if they’re long lost friends as she inspires and empowers individuals on their unique journeys. Her mission is to help people realize their inherent worth and awaken their truest self so they can joyfully achieve, living life to the fullest.
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www.itmakesmehappy.com
https://www.healingforheartsandminds.com/
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www.linkedin.com/in/nursejesse/
To get her poetry book: “She Rose: A Journey Filled with Petals and Prose”
