Codependency Support Group

Codependency is defined as someone who exhibits too much, and often inappropriate, caring for another person's struggles. A codependent person may try to change, or feel shame about their most private thoughts and feelings if they conflict with the other person's struggles. If you are on a journey towards self-love, this support group is for you. Join us and find others...

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hbgdaystar 12/21/2011

My therapist recommended that I start working on co dependence 12 steps. She wants me to put down my short comings, Powerlessness and unmanageability for step1 this week.

Did anybody do this exercise or is anybody interested in doing this. If so we can journal each step every week.

deleted_user 12/21/2011

Hook me up with a link. I would love to start this journey. I think I am ready. I can google for more information, as well. YES. I'm onboard with this.

new2free 12/21/2011

I started working on them, but have slipped somewhat so it may not be a bad ides for me to do them with someone else to keep me accountable in a way. I have a friend who may be interested too. Let me know how you were thinking of doing it? Do you have Melody Beattie's 12 step book or which one are you planning to work from?

hbgdaystar 12/21/2011

new2free - I was planning on using Melody Beatties 12 Step book for reference. How do i want to do it may be put up notes on my journal for each step each week. I probably will be reviewing this with my therapist every week too. For this week as in 12/21 until 12/28 I am gonna work on "First step - We admitted we were powerless over others - that our lives had become unmanageable".

Take your time to write down what we were powerless over what were our shortcommings and how our life has become manageable. Every little detail. If you dont want to share your journal thats fine. This will only let us understand what we are doing wrong and what are we going to do about it as our recovery process.

new2free 12/21/2011

The one thing about putting it in our journals so each of us can read it, it will mean it can be read by all our friends then. I wonder when I get to digging really deep whether I want everyone on my friends list having access to it. I don't mind a select few but not sure about everyone.
Just my thoughts, how do you feel?
Another way we could do it would be to journal it privately and then copy and paste it as a private message to each of us doing it together to hold ourselves accountable to each other. Just a suggestion?

hbgdaystar 12/21/2011

Journaling it privately and send a message to each other is a good option. Let's do it.

deleted_user 12/21/2011

Hi I am new and I am interested in working on co dependent 12 steps. I am also reading Melody Beattie's co-dependent no more.
Let me know what materials, book you have in mind,
so I can purchase and how you wish to go about all this.

Yes I am definitely on board.

sassybabe11 12/22/2011

im interested. how do we get to a journal or do u mean the journal on this site. i tried to download a journal from a 12 step site and it did not load completely and ended up deleting it. would love to read others thoughts on the steps. we could all post on the discussion board when and where we posted out response. busy with family but will try to post. let me know. thanks

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