Stop Seeking Approval: Codependency Recovery Tips

The codependent dilemma of seeking approval for love and approval is SUPER common.

Codependents seek validation from their relationships but don't realize what it does to self-esteem and relationships. Seeking approval for love and validation creates an unhealthy dependency. This is a painful issue to look at but it was one of the most important lessons I ever learned in my codependency recovery.

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00:00 Introduction
00:10 What is codependency?
00:50 Examples of codependent behaviors
01:23 Codependency can happen in any relationship
01:41 Take responsibility for your codependency
02:23 Assess your relationships in codependency
02:36 Detach and start to pull back
02:55 Get to know yourself in codependency recovery
03:32 Being at choice in my relationships
03:52 Develop self-trust with my e-journal

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Michelle is a psychotherapist, codependency expert, and anger management, specialist. She’s been featured in The Daily Positive, BossMom, Psych Central, The Good Men Project, and Your Tango just to name a few. Her relationship recovery helps people go from relationships that don’t serve them, to learning how to trust themselves and create mutually satisfying connections that work. Michelle loves creating online products and courses on relationship skills, codependency recovery, anger management, conflict resolution, self-esteem, and self-trust.
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[iamgoddessoflove]

In order to attract the love that you desire, you must take care of yourself first. When you love yourself, accept yourself and put yourself first, everything falls into place. The one thing that blocks you from manifesting a healthy relationship is when you put everyone else before you.
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[hedgiemum]

I am so glad that I came across your channel and in particular this video, you really have saved my life, I was in such a bad place and you have given me hope so thank you xx

[khaartoumsings]

Clear information that we become more aware of as we step back. How many of the 'friends' groups do we see that also have that 'need' to be together too? Michelle, I watched a few 'Columbo' detective. He is a real Narc Slayer. The way he mirrors the narc murderers who are only 'sorry' they got caught. S8, E3 [I think] 'Sex and the Married Detective' concerns a therapist, bad weather means she can't travel, finds her boyfriend making fun of her in the sex therapy room with secretary. What is fascinating is that for the murder, the therapist creates a sexy character [what Peace and Harmony YT ch.calls 'Female Psychopath'] with sexy clothes and wig and smoking and going to night clubs as this extreme F.Psy. and ordering men about in her black outfits and red lipstick. The boyfriend is lured by the character to his murder. In the episode, the sweet therapist says, "What frightens me is not the murder or the arrest or prison, but the being someone else. Becoming that woman who was so glamorous, stronger and more exciting. I liked her more than I like myself for the time that I was going round night clubs being outrageous as her"... It is amazing how we are conditioned into being 'little mice' but then finding another way of being that is not being like that at all, like your talk on changing our codependency. I've learned such a lot analysing the 'Columbo' behaviours of throwing the narcissists off, often using actually narcissism against them [independent, not reacting emotionally to anything, a mask of 'bumbling dumbness', using sharp unexpected questions and language with an innocent face, overloading narcs with trivial details when they are stressed out...]...Wowee! ; ) K

[mair]

What if you are codependent in your marriage? How do you get space by yourself & for long? Thank you!