EXPERIENCE has taught us that people who identify themselves (willingly or not) as
co-dependent will have to go through a process of unraveling and processing, if
they want to free themselves. This
thought stems from Alice Miller’s benchmark work Drama of the Gifted Child.
“When
we are in touch with our true feelings and can express them and not have to
repress them, the energy to act them out at inappropriate times and places
diminishes over time.”[1]
It
is a given that if we lost our voices to speak about our pain, then we will act
it out. Conversely, as we recover and regain our ability to speak and process
our deep-seated feelings, then the need to act out in order to be heard will
diminish.
"It Is Very Striking To See How
... Acting Out Ceases When The Patient Begins To Experience His Own Feelings."
(Alice Miller)
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