Untangled: Breaking Free from Codependency and Finally Learning to Love Without Losing Yourself (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798240950278)

You love deeply. That is not the problem.The problem is what has happened to you in the process.

The compulsive helping. The self that disappears in relationships. The resentment that builds as you give more than you receive. The specific exhaustion of a person who has been attending to everyone else's needs for so long that they have genuinely forgotten how to attend to their own.

Untangled

is the comprehensive, compassionate, psychologically grounded guide to genuine codependency recovery - from a clinical psychologist specializing in attachment, codependency, and the specific work of learning to love without losing yourself.

Inside you will discover:

- What codependency actually is - and why it developed as the intelligent response it was

- The compulsive quality of codependent giving and the need to be needed

- Detachment with love: the practice that changes everything

- Setting genuine limits in codependent relationships

- Emotional differentiation: becoming a self among selves

- Building genuine self-worth that doesn't depend on others' approval

- What healthy relationships actually look like - and how to develop the capacity for them

- Self-care as the revolutionary act that codependency recovery requires

- Breaking the caretaking compulsion

- The inner relationship: recovering your relationship with yourself

- Codependency and trauma: the deeper roots and specific healing approaches

You are not broken. You learned what you needed to learn.The work now is learning something different.