<div>This Co-Dependents Anonymous group is a Fellowship of women whose common purpose is to develop healthy relationships.</div><div style="margin-top: 20px"><div style="margin: 20px 0;line-height: 22px;"><img src="https://img.evbuc.com/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.evbuc.com%2Fimages%2F145151829%2F59013091097%2F1%2Foriginal.20210820-194424?h=2000&w=720&auto=format%2Ccompress&q=75&sharp=10&s=02767bc0008b47bf4f18ea689634a622" alt="" /></div><div style="margin: 20px 10px;font-size: 15px;line-height: 22px;font-weight: 400;text-align: left;"><h1>What is Codependency?</h1><p>Our codependent behaviors are modeled for us from someone else, in a variety of capacities. Typically, a primary person in our life who we have had a close relationship with has codependent behaviors with us, teaching us that this is the way love is supposed to look.</p><p>How codependency manifests will look different for each of us depending on our personality and our personal experiences, as well as our personal relationships. </p><p><strong>Common codependent behaviors can include: </strong>
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Manipulation
</p><p>Emotional bullying
</p><p>Care taking to the detriment of our own wellness
</p><p>Care-giving
</p><p>Suffocating
</p><p>People-pleasing (ignoring your own needs, then getting frustrated or angry)
</p><p>Obsession with a partner
</p><p>Excusing bad or abusive behavior
</p><p>Feeling like you need to change but can’t
</p><p>Not knowing who you are without them
</p><p>Having a hard time setting boundaries</p></div><div style="margin: 20px 10px;font-size: 15px;line-height: 22px;font-weight: 400;text-align: left;"><p><strong>How to deal with codependency.</strong></p><p><strong>Though it can feel as if there is no answer for codependency, there are solutions. </strong>Codependency is a complex set of behaviors and beliefs that can make it hard to escape damaging and toxic relationships.<strong> </strong>Changing codependent behaviors changes the way we live our lives, how we relate to others, and most importantly, how we relate to ourselves. </p><p><strong>Take the first step with CODA, work the program and find a sponsor.</strong></p><p>When we overcome our need to please, we can overcome the pain of our pasts but we have to accept ourselves and our reality radically and unashamedly.</p><p><em>Everyone has a past and everyone has been hurt. The real trick to life is learning how to overcome that hurt in order to create the existence you’ve always deserved.</em></p></div><div style="margin: 20px 10px;font-size: 15px;line-height: 22px;font-weight: 400;text-align: left;"><p>Welcome to the fellowship of CoDA , may you finally find freedom to live your life as your Higher Power intended,
<strong> Precious &amp; Free.</strong></p></div></div>