![]() ![]() May you instead find here a new strength within to be that which God intended – Precious and Free. No longer do you need to rely on others as a power greater than yourself. No matter how traumatic your past or despairing your present may seem, there is hope for a new day in the program of Co-Dependents Anonymous. Our sharing is our way of identification and helps us to free the emotional bonds of our past and the compulsive control of our present. Each of us is growing at our own pace and will continue to do so as we remain open to God’s will for us on a daily basis. Through applying the Twelve Steps and principles found in CoDA to our daily life and relationships both present and past – we can experience a new freedom from our self defeating lifestyles. We have all learned to survive life, but in CoDA we are learning to live life. Our histories may include other powerful addictions which at times we have used to cope with our codependence. We attempted to use others – our mates, friends, and even our children, as our sole source of identity, value and well being, and as a way of trying to restore within us the emotional losses from our childhoods. We have each experienced in our own ways the painful trauma of the emptiness of our childhood and relationships throughout our lives. In either case, we have found in each of our lives that codependence is a most deeply rooted compulsive behavior and that it is born out of our sometimes moderately, sometimes extremely dysfunctional families and other systems. Many of us were raised in families where addictions existed – some of us were not. Most of us have been searching for ways to overcome the dilemmas of the conflicts in our relationships and our childhoods. Copyright © 2011 Co-Dependents Anonymous, Inc.We welcome you to Co-Dependents Anonymous, a program of recovery from codependence, where each of us may share our experience, strength, and hope in our efforts to find freedom where there has been bondage and peace where there has been turmoil in our relationships with others and ourselves. This document may be reprinted from the website (CoDA) for use by members of the CoDA Fellowship. The Patterns and Characteristics of Codependence may not be reprinted or republished without the express written consent of Co-Dependents Anonymous, Inc. believe displays of emotion are a sign of weakness. ![]() ![]()
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