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I'm your host, certified religious transition and trauma recovery coach, Terry Hales.

I help people step out of the shadows of religious fear and shame and embrace their

authentic selves with love and empathy.

If you're ready to throw off the shackles of learned binary thinking and explore

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Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Emancipate Your Mind podcast. I'm really thrilled that we get to kind of explore today's topic.

We are talking about co-regulation in our relationships.

And I had a fantastic question from Jesse over on Instagram.

She asked and she said, you know, your husband,

this past podcast mentioned a term that I had never heard before, co-regulation.

What does that mean? How is it different from codependency? I'm really confused and I'd love

some more information. So this is for you, Jesse, not only this podcast,

but next podcast as well. We're going to be talking first today about what co-regulation is

so that we can kind of wrap our heads around what we're aiming for and what kind of healthy

interdependence looks like. And then in our next episode, we're going to talk

about the difference between kind of the three kinds of regulation that we hear about out in the

psychological world. We're going to talk about co-regulation, but we're going to contrast it

with codependency. But we're also going to talk a little bit about self-regulation

and kind of how all of those are connected. You might hear some of that today, too, because all

of this is kind of interwoven in my head. And even though I have notes that have definitely

separated those things, I'm sure there will be a little bit of overlap. Now, before we get started, if you love this podcast and you believe it is helping you and

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