There are several situations where codependency is considered normal, like the bond between parents and children. However, it’s often the most beautiful and romantic relationships that turn into a living nightmare.
In this blog, we’ll take a look at a few signs of codependency, how to break free, and the benefits of hypnosis in overcoming toxic relationships.
Signs You’re in a Codependent Relationship
The following are telltale signs that you’re stuck in a codependent relationship:
- Your partner decides your schedule: You find yourself rescheduling or even canceling appointments at your partner’s request or simply to take care of their needs.
- Your partner doesn’t give you any respect:Respect should be both ways, if it’s not, take it as a sign of a co-dependent relationship.
- You feel stressed or anxious: While there are dozens of reasons that can cause stress, if you find yourself carrying most of the workload and the mere thought of your partner makes you anxious, then it’s time to reconsider your role in the relationship.
How to Break Free
If you find yourself being a part of a codependent relationship, then the following steps can help you break free.
Stop Asking for Permissions
Not relying on your significant other for every other decision in your life will help claim back some independence. This process helps to build up your confidence and shows that you’re able to control and trust your own emotions and decisions.
Constantly seeking other’s opinions on matters won’t help further your cause. Before asking for anyone’s opinion on a matter, there’s a high chance you already have an answer. So, start trusting your instinct—even if it isn’t the best one.
Discover Yourself
This may sound cliché but being in a codependent relationship for too long can make you forget who you truly are i.e. you start losing the part of you that makes you unique. To do this, start journaling your thoughts and ideas. Reminisce about your hobbies or the things that made you passionate and start engaging in those activities again.
Go for Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is also one way of rediscovering yourself. By enabling you to go into a state of trance, the hypnotherapist will be able to bring back recessive memories. Through connecting with your subconscious, you’ll be able to achieve the following:
- Reconnect with yourself as a human being
- Begin to enjoy life
- Become more assertive
- Allow yourself space and let the partner deal with their own issues
- Make time for yourself
- Start valuing yourself
Codependent relationships can leave you with a sense of depression and loneliness despite having people around to you. Don’t delay, seek help now. Rekha Shrivastava is a certified rehabilitation counselor and hypnotist at Blossom Hypnosis. She uses a number of effective self-confidence strategies to help you escape toxic relationships and begin the journey to rediscovery. Rekha also offers Skype sessions to clients not residing in Rochester, NY. Contact us today for more information.
Sources:
https://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/co-dependency
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anxiety-zen/201609/6-signs-codependent-relationship
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