799 The HFC Recovery Code: 11 Truths for Healing High-Functioning Codependency
The Terri Cole Show
Terri Cole
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
When you're a high-functioning codependent, you don't look stuck.
You look capable. You're the one who pulls everything together, gets it all done, and rarely asks for help. People see you as someone who has it handled.
But there's a cost. And recovering from being a high-functioning codependent is the path to living the happy, healthy, balanced life you deserve.
I created the HFC Recovery Code because people kept asking me for a condensed list to help them remember their rights and responsibilities when they're feeling overwhelmed or pulled toward doing too much.
Read the show notes for today's episode at terricole.com/799
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there and welcome to this episode of the Cherry Cole Show. I'm so happy you're here. |
| 0:07.2 | So, this is for my overfunctioners out there today. Here's the thing with high functioning |
| 0:13.1 | codependency. When we're high functioning codependence, we don't look stuck, right? Even though |
| 0:19.2 | we're stuck, for sure, there's no doubt. We just look |
| 0:23.0 | super capable. So people are like, she's fine, right? You're the one who gets things done, |
| 0:28.6 | hold everything together. Most of the time, probably you don't ask for a lot of help. But real |
| 0:34.5 | recovery for HFC, this doesn't actually mean becoming less competent, obviously. |
| 0:41.6 | It means learning what not to do anymore, right? |
| 0:45.5 | Becoming discerning. |
| 0:47.3 | So in this episode of the Jerry Cole show, I am sharing the HFC recovery code that I created for you because I feel like people have |
| 0:56.8 | lots of questions continuing to ask me questions about HFC. So this is 12 things that you can and |
| 1:03.7 | cannot do while you're healing. So this is to help you stop overfunctioning, overgiving, but also stop outsourcing your worth. |
| 1:16.9 | So before we get into it, I just want to say thank you for being here. |
| 1:20.8 | I'm super pumped to just roll into 2026 with all of you love bugs. |
| 1:27.4 | My OGs and my newbies, all to people. |
| 1:30.7 | The fact that you're tuning in means the world. |
| 1:32.9 | I don't ever take your time, your attention, your generosity for granted. |
| 1:39.6 | Because in today's busy world, it means so much to me that you choose to spend time with me. |
| 1:44.6 | So thank you. |
| 1:45.7 | If you love the show and you want to support it, it helps me so much if you rate, review, |
| 1:50.6 | and subscribe on Apple Podcasts. |
| 1:53.4 | All right. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Terri Cole, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Terri Cole and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.