Do you find it difficult to relax when you are not working?
If you have an “off” day, do you immediately
view yourself as incompetent?
When you are asked how you are, do you talk about work?
Is who you are what you do?
If you answered yes to any of these questions you may be attempting to get your intrapersonal needs met within the scope of your career — a potential setup for codependence and a sure recipe for its consequences of disappointment, resentment and burnout.
Codependence can be described as a way of getting one’s needs met — safety, self worth or identity — through others, but researchers find that it affects more than just interpersonal relationships.We can be codependent to our careers, our mates, our pets and even our hobbies. As Charles Whitfield, author of Codependence: Healing the Human Condition, states, codependence is “the addiction of looking elsewhere. We believe something outside of ourselves … can give us happiness and fulfillment.”
Join us for a day of Creative Codependence™ and learn how to transform energy draining patterns of Codependence into life giving Interdependence. See the eventspage for a workshop near you.Or…
