The Comeback Coach...

Someone once asked me if I believed there was some kinda “cure” for co-dependency.  I answered that I didn’t believe so.  To date, after years of extensive research and practice, I have not – as yet - come across a one-size-fits-all cure for a given addiction… but I do know of many, many methods  which can offer a way back from the brink and a step towards the peace and contentment which follows many of us in recovery, once the chaos of addiction is quietened, soothed and put back in its box .  A customised lid can be found to contain it.  Sometimes our triggers will lift the lid.  Sometimes they’ll blow the lid right off and it’s Groundhog Day all over again… feeling those Codependent Crazies… people-pleasing…  going along with things but feeling that old familiar resentment… over-caring… over-committing… over-working….over-analysing… overdoing it… over and over and over again.  I know I've said it all before... ;)  

The difference in recovery?  We know that the chaos can be held in abeyance – that it can be contained again.  That we can put a lid on it… when we learn how.  Today I’m the Comeback Coach… coming back healed and restored after a long break, some of which was spent, admittedly, in a codependent cycle.  I fell into it.  I climbed out of it.  It’s been tough, as great loss and resultant grief were in the mix but I didn’t pick up… I didn’t return to my drug of choice… and that’s thanks to healthy relationships which support my recovery, combined with the tools I've come to know and love, which help me to know and love myself once again.  Each time codependency strikes, the gaps between episodes become wider.  Peace is louder and the volume is turned down to a whisper on crazy... And I remind myself each and every day… It’s a great life in recovery! 

Hey-la!  Hey-la! It’s good to be back! :)