TWELVE STEP PROGRAMS
Co-Dependece Anonymous and other twelve step programs provide a valuable service for participants who are in need of being with others who are struggling mentally, emotionally, and spiritually with their lives.Participants find others who share their stories and find hope in listening to others issues, problems, and life challenges. The sharing is significant in helping individuals eliminate the isolation that participants experience.
Co-Dependence Anonymous is a significant twelve speed program because it addresses patterns of self-esteem, denial, compliance, and control.Those who have compliance patterns experience a compulsion to satisfy others needs. They compromise their own needs, desires, wants, and values in order to satisfy others needs, desires, wants, and vlues. These individuals experience helplessness, powerlessness, and guilt are common issues. There is a loss of self-esteem. It hurts.
The sharing at twelve step meetings help people to clarify their behaviors. Hopefully participants become aware of their behaviors and choose, decide, and permit themselves to begin to change. I have experienced many participants who are stuck emotionally and experience a sense of helplessness to do anything about their behavior. Participants experience depression because of their inability to transform their behaviors. I have been a participant in a co-dependents anonymous meetings for three years. I express my success at the meetings because of my use of powerful tools that enable me to move the intensity of feelings reflective of the my own hurt and trauma reflective of the range of emotions, anger through rage, fear through terror, and sadness through grief. It takes powerful tools to move deeply rooted feelings reflective of strong emotion out of the body. I've experienced significant behavior change as a result.
