Ep.30 Addiction Treatment | From codependency to self-recovery

Topics discussed in this episode 🟣Personal story of self-recovery to stop overhelping in a 12-Step program for family and friends of alcoholics 🟣Codependency, enmeshed relationships with loss of self in others 🟣Misconceptions about codependency, enabling addiction, and blame 🟣Bringing the wisdom of 12-Step to mental health 🟣A therapy client's question that opened up a whole body of work 🟣Nancy shares an affordable, practical, tacticle, and visual aid therapists can use with clients 🟣How The Clinician’s Codependency Treatment Workbook helps therapists foster not the growth we think clients need but the growth that is true for them. 🟣Online clinician training to accompany the workbook through PESI Professional Educational Services Institute 🟣The Next Era of codependency recovery 🟣 Deepen the clinical work with people who are other-centered instead of self-centered 🟣 Online clinicians consultation group 🟣 Discussion with Noel Bell in the UK 🟣Speaking engagements - If we don't promote ourselves in some way, the world won't know what we're doing. 🟣Mind, emotions, body, spirit 🟣Theories that emerge and reemerge 🟣Codependency Camp 20th Anniversary 🟣Importance of daily practices because the world invites us to be back in our habits 🟣 Addiction professionals and awareness of their own codependency 🟣3 ingrediants of change

Nancy's Books 📘"The Clinician’s Codependency Treatment Workbook: 66 Self-Recovery Strategies for Clients Who Lose Themselves in Others" Paperback https://catalog.pesi.com/item/the-clinicians-codependency-treatment-workbook-135811 Kindle https://www.amazon.com/Clinicians-Codependency-Treatment-Workbook-Self-Recovery/dp/1683737288 📘"Disentangle: When You've Lost Yourself in Someone Else" https://www.nancyljohnston.com/books 📘"My life as a border collie. Freedom from codependency" https://www.nancyljohnston.com/books Addiction Podcast Guest: Nancy L. Johnston MS, LPC, LSATP, MAC, NCC Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Substance Abuse Treatment Practitioner 🔗https://www.nancyljohnston.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancy-l-johnston-363088178/ Guest location: Virginia Addiction Podcast Host: ⁠Chris Langley⁠, Co-Founder | ⁠Addiction Recovery Place⁠