This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford.

At self-work we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world and what

to do about them.

I'm Dr. Margaret and self-work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today for your own self-work.

Hi and welcome or welcome back to self-work.

I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford.

I'm a clinical psychologist out of Fable, Arkansas.

I've actually been seeing patients for almost 25 years now.

So I started blogging back about five years ago and

podcasting just last year. I wanted to extend the walls of my practice to those

who might already be in therapy but would be interested in hearing what another

psychologist had to say or the many people who might never have considered going

to therapy. I thought they might be curious about what someone like me might have to say. So welcome

today we're going to be talking about codependency. A lot of people use that word and so I always have to ask them now what exactly do you

mean by that because I think there's a lot of confusion about it. Actually even

experts on co- disagree about what cod dependency is.

In fact, last week I asked people on my Facebook page what they might want to work on in 2018 and codependence was one of the

first things that they mentioned so that's why we're talking about it today.

We'll look at the history of the term, just a little bit of it.

I'll use some actual examples from my practice,

and I've come up with five questions both for the enabled

and five questions for the enabler.

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