HEALING TOOLS FOR RECOVERY FROM CODEPENDENCY AND ABUSE

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Affirmations

Affirmations are a tool in recovery, nurturing statements we make to ourselves. We use them as a means to start building ourselves up from the inside. The following includes a list of possible affirmations, and a link to web site with some great affirmation guidance tools. Affirmations

 

For those of us who have suffered any form of abuse, affirmations are the best defense against the "negative tapes" we acquired about ourselves, sometimes called "abuser values".  Here is a link to an excellent article about abuser values and how they affect us.     http://www.enlightenedchoices.com/2003_05_fr.htm

 

Grieving and Feeling feelings

"One must FEEL the Sadness and learn that to FEEL is not synonymous with to DIE. " http://www.enlightenedchoices.com/1996_11_fr.htm

 

 

Codependency and Inner Child Healing

Codependency at joy2meu

Loving the Wounded Child Within - healing self through inner child work

A Dance of Shame, Suffering, and Self-abuse - 

"The feeling of wanting to die, of not wanting to be here, is the most overwhelming, most familiar feeling in my emotional inner landscape. Until I started doing my inner child healing I believed that who I really was at the deepest, truest part of my being, was that person who wanted to die."


"The inner child we need to heal is actually our "inner children" who have been running our lives because we have been unconsciously reacting to life out of the emotional wounds and attitudes, the old tapes, of our childhoods."

"Anytime we have a strong emotional reaction to something or someone - when a button is pushed and there is a lot of energy attached, a lot of intensity - that means there is old stuff involved."

"It is the inner child who feels panic or terror or rage or hopelessness, not the adult."

"The one who betrayed us and abandoned and abused us the most was ourselves. That is how the emotional defense system that is Codependence works."

"The battle cry of Codependence is "I'll show you - I'll get me."

reprinted from--the Web Site of Robert Burney and Joy to You & Me enterprises.