Coaching practices for How to Overcome Codependency Worksheets
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- When I try to untangle one of these convictions in my head it just spins
- We have the same fight over and over with different words on top, and in the moment it always feels like it’s their fault
- I keep noticing the same move
- We keep agreeing to stop the pushing and the shutting-down, and for a few days it holds, but then something sets it off and we’re right back in it
- We have the exact same fight on a loop
Practices that may help
- Use a challenging beliefs worksheet to work a stuck point completely
The CPT challenging beliefs worksheet is a structured, written process for examining one stuck point at a time.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD - Recognize your demon dialogue -- the negative cycle running your relationship
Every stuck couple has a predictable negative loop; naming it together is the first step out.
Hold Me Tight: Sue Johnson's Seven Conversations for Lasting Love - Identifying and challenging dysfunctional coping modes
Spot when you’re in surrender, avoidance, or overcompensation mode — and the schema need underneath it.
Schema Therapy: Healing Early Maladaptive Beliefs - Excavating the underlying needs on both sides
Find what the demand and the withdrawal are each protecting — and address those needs directly.
The Demand-Withdraw Pattern: Breaking the Pursue-Retreat Cycle - Identify and name your negative cycle
Every stuck couple has a predictable escalation pattern -- naming it lets you step outside it.
Emotionally Focused Therapy: Sue Johnson's Framework for Lasting Bond Repair - Name the cycle as the shared enemy
Give the pattern a name and treat it as the problem — not your partner.
The Pursuer-Withdrawer Cycle, Explained - Naming the cycle out loud together
Learn to narrate the demand-withdraw cycle while it is happening rather than after.
The Demand-Withdraw Pattern: Breaking the Pursue-Retreat Cycle - Identifying and challenging interpersonal myths
Surface and test the beliefs that prevent you from asking for what you need or saying no.
DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness: Getting What You Need Without Destroying the Relationship - Exposure and response prevention (ERP) for OCD-like patterns
Trigger obsessional distress, then refrain from the compulsive or avoidant response.
Exposure Therapy: Facing Fears to Shrink Them - Shift from one-person to two-person psychology
Stop managing your distress alone and start managing it together.
Secure-Functioning Relationships
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Stop managing your distress alone and start managing it together.
- How To Overcome Codependency In Marriage
Stop managing your distress alone and start managing it together.
- How To Overcome Codependency In Your Relationship
Stop managing your distress alone and start managing it together.
- Externalizing The Problem Couples
Give the pattern a name and treat it as the problem — not your partner.
Name the cycle as the shared enemy
- How Do I Know If I M In A Codependent Relationship
Honestly map whether you are primarily a demander or a withdrawer — and what your partner’s role is.
Identifying your role in the cycle
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