Topics discussed in this episode
🟣Personal story of self-recovery to stop overhelping in a 12-Step program for family and friends of alcoholics
🟣Codependency, enmeshed relationships with loss of self in others
🟣Misconceptions about codependency, enabling addiction, and blame
🟣Bringing the wisdom of 12-Step to mental health
🟣A therapy client's question that opened up a whole body of work
🟣Nancy shares an affordable, practical, tacticle, and visual aid therapists can use with clients
🟣How The Clinician’s Codependency Treatment Workbook helps therapists foster not the growth we think clients need but the growth that is true for them.
🟣Online clinician training to accompany the workbook through PESI Professional Educational Services Institute
🟣The Next Era of codependency recovery
🟣 Deepen the clinical work with people who are other-centered instead of self-centered
🟣 Online clinicians consultation group
🟣 Discussion with Noel Bell in the UK
🟣Speaking engagements - If we don't promote ourselves in some way, the world won't know what we're doing.
🟣Mind, emotions, body, spirit
🟣Theories that emerge and reemerge
🟣Codependency Camp 20th Anniversary
🟣Importance of daily practices because the world invites us to be back in our habits
🟣 Addiction professionals and awareness of their own codependency
🟣3 ingrediants of change
Nancy's Books
📘"The Clinician’s Codependency Treatment Workbook: 66 Self-Recovery Strategies for Clients Who Lose Themselves in Others"
Paperback
https://catalog.pesi.com/item/the-clinicians-codependency-treatment-workbook-135811
Kindle
https://www.amazon.com/Clinicians-Codependency-Treatment-Workbook-Self-Recovery/dp/1683737288
📘"Disentangle: When You've Lost Yourself in Someone Else" https://www.nancyljohnston.com/books
📘"My life as a border collie. Freedom from codependency" https://www.nancyljohnston.com/books
Addiction Podcast Guest:
Nancy L. Johnston MS, LPC, LSATP, MAC, NCC
Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Substance Abuse Treatment Practitioner
🔗https://www.nancyljohnston.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancy-l-johnston-363088178/
Guest location: Virginia
Addiction Podcast Host:
Chris Langley, Co-Founder | Addiction Recovery Place
