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Adult Child

99 - Codependency in Friendships w/ Michelle Farris, LMFT

Adult Child

Andrea

Relationships, Health & Fitness, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Michelle Farris is a psychotherapist in recovery. She helps codependent people create mutually satisfying relationships without sacrificing their big hearts. In her private practice., she teaches simple yet powerful skills that build self-trust and healthy relationships. She’s written several e-workbooks and online courses on building relationship skills and been featured in Psych Central, Bustle, Your Tango, The Good Men Project and The Daily Positive, Boss-Moms and several mental health podcasts. You can find her with a Vente latte from Starbucks while working on her next project!
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0:00.0

The more uncomfortable we will be tomorrow. My name is Andrea and this is adult child. to just let it all go.

0:23.0

What's making you slow now?

0:27.0

Welcome back to adult child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up

0:32.0

in a dysfunctional family.

0:34.0

Ahoy, my dear shit shows.

0:37.6

What's up party peeps?

0:39.3

For any new listeners, my name is Andrea, don't call me Andrea. I am a huge shit show and I hit my adult

0:47.0

child bottom or as we like to say around here but my adult child but back in 2018 after dating two guys named Brian that were both

0:58.3

alcoholics. Now somebody might be saying hey you know you can't call

1:02.4

someone else an alcoholic only that

1:04.4

person can can deem themselves an alcoholic yeah I'm pretty confident not

1:10.2

pretty confident I'm 100% positive that they were alcoholics. I mean I've

1:18.4

been calling myself an alcoholic since I was 14, 13. The first time I said hi my name is Andrea I'm an alcoholic

1:26.9

was in middle school. Well actually when I was 11 I think, hi, I'm Andrea and I don't want to be an alcoholic.

1:36.2

And it was within a year and a half then I then said I am Andrea and I am an alcoholic.

1:43.4

If you are not familiar with the Tale of Two Bryan's or my story,

1:48.7

highly recommend you go back to the beginning

1:50.9

and listen to those first handful of episodes because that's

1:54.0

where I go through my story which in my opinion is a highly entertaining story and

1:59.1

really sets the foundation for what the hell we got going on here in this shit show podcast.

2:08.0

So today I am joined by Michelle Ferris, she is a therapist who specializes in codependency and she knows her

2:17.6

shit. She has done a lot of recovery herself. She's very well versed in the 12 steps and we're talking about a bunch of things but one thing in particular that I think is interesting or of note is co-dependency and friendships. So we often talk about cod dependency as it relates to romantic

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