Codependency and Other-Directedness
Learn how to overcome codependency and develop healthier relationships with this course. Explore attachment theory, schema therapy, and meditation techniques to disconfirm negative beliefs and patterns. Perfect for codependents, compulsive caretakers, and those with preoccupied or disorganized attachment styles.
What you’ll learn
- Theoretical understanding of codependency from the perspectives of Attachment Theory and Schema Therapy
- Practical skills to disconfirm the underlying beliefs that cause compulsive behaviors
- Greater metacognitive abilities and increased awareness of your own psychology
- Seeing that what you want matters, with a deepened appreciation for interpersonal relationships
This course will focus on working through negative early attachment conditioning especially as it relates to codependency and other-directedness. We will approach this from attachment theory and attachment repair perspectives.
We see insecure attachment as a pattern of beliefs made by emotional memories. We will explore these beliefs and how we can set new patterns through meditation.
Attachment Theory
Attachment Theory describes one of the earliest phases of our psychological development. It describes the behaviours of the infant from ages 6 months to three years of age when it ventures away from the caregiver to explore and then goes back to seek safety, affection, and care from the ‘secure base’. These early experiences imprint on us forming emotional memories (schemas) that go on to condition many aspects of life thereafter.
Schema Therapy
According to Jeffery Young “An early maladaptive schema is a pervasive self-defeating or dysfunctional theme or pattern of memories, emotions, and physical sensations, developed during childhood or adolescence and elaborated throughout one’s lifetime, that often has the form of a belief about the self or the world.” Jeffrey Young also calls the schemas “life traps”.
Meditations
We’ll do guided meditations that address traits of preoccupied attachment which cause us to be overly concerned with other people. These will include:
Perfect Nurturer Reinforcement – Visualizing loving imaginary figures that model secure attachment
Schema Repatterning Meditation – Bringing up and disconfirming relevant schemas (limiting beliefs)
Chairwork
Additionally we’ll do “chairwork” on our self-sacrificying parts to understand them better. We will see how based on our deeply held “emotional knowings” that there is a part of us that believes that “compulsive care taking is necessary. Then we’ll have an emotionally corrective experience so that we no longer experience the self sacrifice as necessary.
The material for this course was recorded during a live event and includes Q&A from participants.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who identifies themselves as codepdent
- Compulsive caretakers or “rescuers”
- People with Preoccupied or Disorganized Attachment
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