Ep 105 Are you a codependent empath?
In this episode, Jen deep dives into the unhealthy shadow of codependent relationships. She shares what codependency is and how it shows up in our relationships. The different signs that you are in an unhealthy codependent relationship. She also shares the tool she uses which can help open up healthy communications.
Key Notes:
What is a codependent relationship
How can we identify if we are in an unhealthy relationship with someone else
The common and different ways the unhealthy codependency that show up
Show Notes:
(00:30) Jen shares what this week’s episode is all about
(02:24) What codependency is and what it is not
(05:00) The types of codependency that show up most commonly
(07:10) Jen talks about a little more about the hidden wound of the co-dependency of the healers, coaches, nurturers and empaths
(09:46) How Body Wisdom is a way we can listen to our body when we’re uncomfortable
(12:54) How some empaths have a subconscious need to be seen or heard
(13:45) How boundaries are super important in relationships
(15:00) The different ways the unhealthy codependency show up
(18:46) How an empath, a healer and a nurturer who has an unhealthy codependent potential I going to be somebody who is going to be likely taken advantage of or used
(20:56) The four step process of the tool of the Nonviolent Coimmunication which can help open up healthy communications
(22:35) How the most uncomfortable relationship is between an empath and a narcissist
(29:00) Different signs that you are in an unhealthy codependent relationships in your life
Quotes:
(11:34) Not all empaths are codependent. And not all codependents are empaths.
(14:06) Unhealthy codependent relationships don’t have boundaries
(17:22) Anytime that we’re attached to anything, it’s probably an unhealthy codependent relationship
(18:08) The more that we stand in our light, the more we welcome the shadow. The more the we stand in our light, the more that other people are going to see that and they’re going to want some of it.
(31:49) Practice compassion by witnessing it, not being consumed by it.
Links Mentioned:
Website: https://www.jenmons.com/
Wounded Badge of Empathy: https://www.jenmons.com/podcast/the-wounded-badge-of-empathy
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