#554 – The Truth About Codependency
The Sister Circle Podcast
Chrystal Evans Hurst
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I get to the root of that oh-so-uncomfortable word: codependency.
If you’ve ever felt like you were losing yourself in a relationship, this chat will encourage you to value God’s approval above anyone else’s, and to lean into His plan for your life. You’ll leave feeling motivated to require mutual respect and a sense of independence in your relationships.
Highlights from Today’s Episode
- Pursuing personal peace
- Pleasing God instead of people
- Putting relationships in proper perspective
Related Resources
- Ready to prioritize your peace? Listen to this podcast episode on Building Better Boundaries.
- Need help putting yourself first? Listen to this podcast episode and practice The Art of Saying No.
- Check out my conversation with Nona Jones on Overcoming Rejection.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. Thanks for listening to the Sister Circle podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | My name is Crystal Evanshurst, and I'm your host. Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the podcast that's designed to help you live your life well and to make it a life you love. Listen, you get to choose. Let's talk about |
| 0:29.6 | codependency. Are you codependent? Well, let's see. Have you ever felt like your sense of peace |
| 0:34.8 | depended on how someone else felt or how they responded to you? |
| 0:39.2 | Do you ever find it easier to meet everyone else's needs more than voicing your own? |
| 0:44.6 | And when was the last time you said yes when you really should have said no to something that |
| 0:49.7 | even though your heart said no and your schedule said no or your health was saying no, |
| 0:53.9 | you said yes and you shouldn't have. |
| 0:56.1 | Well, if you are answering in the affirmative of any of those questions, you might be struggling with codependency. |
| 1:02.4 | And that's okay. |
| 1:03.2 | That's all right. |
| 1:03.8 | We all struggle with something. |
| 1:05.3 | And we want to talk about it today so you can recognize it and free yourself from it if that's what you need to do in this world |
| 1:12.2 | at this time. Let's get into it. Y'all, here's the deal. I am a Christian. I love Jesus. And I'm also |
| 1:19.8 | a firstborn, all the things that go along with that birth order. And I'm raised in a Christian |
| 1:25.9 | environment. And so there's all these boxes to check about what it means to be a good girl, what it means to love Jesus and how that means that you are kind and considerate and others centered. The problem is that sometimes others centered can go too far, too far where you are not centered enough on what God would have you to do |
| 1:47.3 | with your life and what's a priority in the season of life that you're in. And so there have been |
| 1:52.1 | seasons of my life when I thought that being a good Christian girl meant keeping other people happy. |
| 1:57.8 | And it wasn't that I couldn't find happiness on my own. It's just that if you're |
| 2:02.6 | supposed to have joy, Jesus and others than you, well, everybody else has got to come before you. |
| 2:07.9 | And that messaging can get embedded in the heart of a young girl in a way that she has to |
| 2:12.2 | untangle herself from that over time. And I definitely had to do the work of that for sure. And I'm still working on that |
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