Save Your Life By Letting Go (of Codependency) with Terri Cole

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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403. Save Your Life By Letting Go (of Codependency) with Terri Cole Licensed psychotherapist and relationship expert, Terri Cole, returns to talk more about high-functioning codependency—a term Terri coined to describe those who appear highly capable but feel deeply exhausted, resentful, and overwhelmed in relationships. In part two of our conversation, we will discuss recovery: where to start and what healing looks like. -The biggest cost to being an active HFC and how to stop paying the price -How to stop giving immediate yeses and what to do instead -The two reasons we actually gossip and what it reveals about what we need to work on -Over a dozen actionable tools to release being a High Functioning Codependent Check out part one of our conversation, Are You A High Functioning Codependent? Find Out with Terri, here: Part 1 On Terri: Terri Cole is a licensed psychotherapist and global relationship and empowerment expert and the author of Boundary Boss and Too Much! She has a gift for making complex psychological concepts accessible and actionable so that clients –including parents, celebrities and Fortune 500 CEOs – achieve sustainable change. You can find her through her blog, courses, her podcast, The Terri Cole Show, and at terricole.com. Check out www.terricole.com/hfc for a special offering from Terri. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It is getting very close to book release time. Our new book, We Can Do Hard Things,
0:09.1	Answers to Life's 20 Questions, comes out on May 6th. You can pre-order, we can do hard things,
0:16.4	anywhere you get your books, or you can go to treatmedia.com. You can also join us for a virtual event
0:22.9	that we're doing on publication day. You guys were doing a live virtual event because since the tour
0:29.3	sold out so quickly, lots of you were sad to not be a part of it and we can't stand your sadness.
0:35.7	So we're hosting a virtual event to support those who
0:38.5	could not get tickets and to support our beloved local independent bookstores. All the proceeds
0:43.6	from this virtual event are going to these local bookst. They show up for us. We're showing up for
0:49.3	them. May 6th. If you pre-ordered the book from an independent bookstore, you don't have to buy it
0:53.9	again to come to the event.
0:55.5	Please register for the event by uploading your indie order at treatmedia.com.
1:01.0	And just click the option that says, I've already pre-ordered from another indie.
1:05.4	Okay, we'll see you there. Welcome back. We can do hard things. We're back. Terry Cole's here.
1:23.4	We are here with brilliant therapist and author Terry Cole, whose new book called Too Much
1:30.6	really shows us this whole new kind of codependency, where if you've never seen
1:36.5	yourself in codependency before, if you think, well, that must not be me because I am
1:42.8	dependent on no one.
1:47.6	We have some bad news and good news for you. You are likely what Terry coined as a high functioning codependent.
1:55.1	And the good news is in this episode, we are talking all about the process of recovery and healing and how
2:03.4	changing the way you love will change the entire way that you live with all of your energy
2:10.9	and taking your exhaustion and resentment and putting it back into energy for yourself
2:17.4	and for your people.
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