Intensive Workshop - Free To Be Me:
Rescuing Yourself From Codependency
Free To Be Me: Rescuing Yourself From Codependency is a 4-Day Therapy Intensive Workshop, offered at Santé Center For Healing, that utilizes Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), to work with individuals who are struggling in their personal and/or professional relationships. Codependence is often defined as investing and focusing one’s time and energy into everything and everyone else. However, simply defined, codependence is a lack of a relationship with oneself. Important topics of focus during the 4-Day workshop include: education on the family system, defense mechanisms, shame, the drama triangle, boundaries, power and powerlessness, connection, breaking free from the drama triangle, self-care and learning how to free yourself from codependent behavior and dysfunctional relationship patterns.
Goals of Intensive
- Learn how to create healthy interdependent relationships.
- Learn how to establish boundaries and enforce them in a healthy and respectful way.
- Improve self-esteem and learn about the importance of self-compassion.
- Experience new ways of communicating in personal and professional relationships.
- Change patterns of thought to inspire new growth and deeper intimacy.
What previous attendees have said:
“I realized that other people are not in charge of my happiness and I do not have to fix and try to change others.”
“The Intensive Workshop helped me let go of deep-seated shame, sadness and grief that I had been carrying… for years.”
“I now have tools to feel confident setting and maintaining boundaries.”
What Happens in the 4-Day Intensives?
- Education on the dysfunctional family system.
- Education on guilt versus shame.
- Individuals learn to address patterns of problematic thinking and behaving.
- Individuals learn new coping skills in order to challenge themselves when necessary.
- Individuals learn the importance of loving and making themselves a priority.
- Learning the importance of self-care through Interactive Clay Therapy
- Learning how to emotionally regulate through a session of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Learning how to set boundaries and understand connection through a session of Equine Therapy
Who can participate?
- Traditional psychotherapy treatment has stalled.
- Able to participate in a group setting.
- Have a hard time saying “no,” setting boundaries and often feeling guilty when they do.
- Are workaholics and/or perfectionists.
- Often feel resentful when their accomplishments/help goes unrecognized.
- Not actively having thoughts of suicide, self-harming, harming others, or abusing alcohol/drugs.