Why You Keep Abandoning Yourself

About this episode

The episode explores the unconscious patterns of self-abandonment and codependency in relationships.

"You have set up this pattern where you completely abandon yourself unconsciously and make it about the other person because you believe on an unconscious level that that is the way that you will get love, connection, and ultimately survive." Codependency is one of those words I've avoided for a long time, not because it isn't real, but because I think it gets oversimplified in a way that misses what's actually happening. The deeper I go in my own process and the deeper I take my clients who'...

People in this episode

Host: Alyse Bacine

Topics covered

• self abandonment
• codependency
• love
• connection
• survival
• unconscious patterns

Keywords

• self abandonment
• codependency
• unconscious patterns
• love
• connection
• survival

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