Courage to Change offers on-line and telephone counselling allowing you to contact me from anywhere in Australia or overseas. Courage to Change offers you the opportunity to discuss your problems with a qualified counsellor specialising in co-dependency and addictions.
Co-dependency is relying on other people to provide you with happiness. Developing an understanding of the roots of your co-dependency can provide a foundation for your healing.
Co-dependency is the underlying problem with all addictions and often the basis of depression, stress and anxiety. Depending on other people for your self-esteem and self worth will sabotage your happiness and cause you emotional pain.
Brain Chemistry is a major factor in depression and can be helped with natural supplements and cognitive behavioural therapy.
Results show that after using telephone counselling treatment, more than a third of patients no longer met the diagnosis criteria for depression - a result similar to traditional clinical treatments. One of the reasons why telephone counselling works is that it is convenient and systematic in its approach. Help is as close as your telephone.
On top of the physical reasons that cause you to put on weight, you have to consider psychological (emotional) factors that work with your biology to prevent you from losing weight. If you are hooked on food, it is the interaction between one’s own manufactured “brain chemicals” and one’s behaviour, whether that be ingesting sugar or other chemicals or “acting out” behaviour, that stimulates the brain to establish compulsive and addictive behavioural patterns. If you have ever reached for food when you are feeling stressed you should be well acquainted with emotional overeating. Courage to Change will help you overcome your limited belief system with a recovery program tailored to suit your needs.
Toxic relationships
Co-dependency is the root cause of dysfunctional relationships. Learning emotional detachment will assist you in early recovery and be a mainstay throughout your recovery program. Emotional detachment is about learning to balance self in relationship with others. Needs, wants, and feelings can begin to be identified and communicated as you move toward less co-dependent relationships.
Co-dependency is linked to “people pleasing” and/or control. The personality of the “people pleaser” is someone who regularly puts other people first in a compulsive effort to keep them happy, even at the expense of their own physical and emotional wellbeing. Their insecurities and low self-esteem propel them towards self-medications.
A functioning alcoholic is someone who can hold down a job, pursue a career or care for children while continuing his or her alcoholism. Some people can do these things successfully, but how well do they handle the other functions in life? How do they function in the role of spouse, parent, driver, financial manager and community volunteer? Their job or profession isn’t their only function in life. It is hard to pick the functioning alcoholic until their chaotic behaviour becomes apparent to family, friends and work colleagues. By then, they are out of control and it becomes more difficult for the professional counsellor to sew the seeds of recovery.
Courage to Change recovery program is based on personal experience.
As a Professional Co-dependency Specialist Counsellor, I can help you put your issues into perspective and provide you with the tools to make changes in your life. Emotions can be fragile and it is hard for some professionals to say to you: "I know how you feel" because they don't know how you feel. I have walked the walk so I can talk the talk. It's the empirical knowledge I've gained over the years that helps my patients to discover who they really are and be happy with who they are.
