Navigating Codependency and Passive-Aggressive Communication
Christian Counselor Spokane
Codependency can affect our service to the Lord. It drives works, deriving a sense of worth from performance. It saps us of strength, siphoning joy from the simplicity of being and belonging in Christ. Codependency transfers our peace from abiding in rest to wrestling in relationship with ourselves, and often God and others. The constant striving of codependency builds on a performance principle, suggesting that our value is tied to what we do, often for others, versus who we are in Christ. We may not always recognize where our own lives are playing out patterns of codependency, often learned in childhood, forged through our families of origin. In a familiar...
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