Heal Your Codependency with Marshall Burtcher

You're Not Emotionally Blocked - You're In Need Of LoveThe term and concept called "blocks" is prevalent in the self-help and healing world. It is something that sabotaged my healing, satisfaction, and personal alignment with my purposes and joy, as I was drawn to try to fix, eliminate, and overcome these "blocks".This wasted over a decade of energy, t

3 Things You Must Unblend From Others If You're To ThriveCodependency has us blending ourselves with others.What is blending?It is confusing one's self with another's reality. An example: You know their feelings and mistake their feelings for your feelings.This is a common form of being enmeshed with another.In today's episode, I show you three critical things t

3 Things You Must Trust In Yourself If You're To Heal And ThriveAbuse and neglect conditioned you to naturally distrust yourself. You learned to discount the legitimacy of your lived experiences, the importance and value of your emotions, to seek your worth through pleasing others and being "good", and so much more.To heal, your distrust must be healed into trust.I s

Navigating New or Foreign Experiences That Come From Your Growth And HealingAdapting to new results because you're choosing different people who behave differently is challenging. It is also one of the more risky parts of our journey, as we may turn to old behaviors to generate a sense of safety or comfort because it is familiar. I share the gentle approach I teach my students

What secrets does your emptiness hold?Emptiness is often something we fear and can be really intense to confront if we're not sure why we're turning towards our emptiness.But what if emptiness wasn't something wrong? What if it could add deeply to your healing? What if your emptiness holds the key to more fulfillment and connection?Learn how to work with your emptine

What does it mean to fulfill or nurture a need?Needs are somatic - meaning they are experienced in the body, and their fulfillment is found in the body.This makes our needs interdependent experiences - both with you to yourself, you to others, and others to you.A need being fulfilled or nurtured means your body is having experiences that fulfill the desire that need has.Example: I

The 3 Sides Of Fulfilling ConnectionFeeling connection and a sense of belonging invovles the interaction of three distinct "movements" we each do towards each other and ourselves.When we understand these movements and deliberately involve them in our relating, we experience more fulfilling connections. What are these 3 movements?- How you relate to yourself (You-to-Yourse

Do You Have Internalized Loneliness?First of all, what is "Internalized Loneliness?"It is an enduring, profound sense of being emotionally isolated from others and from yourself.I visualized it as my being in a transparent glass box where I could see others, hear them, and they could see and hear me, but we could never touch emotionally.This box also existed within my int

3 Tips That Take The Sting And Shame Out Of Disappointing OthersDisappointing others is a terrifying thing when we've been rejected, discarded, and harmed by it in the past. Yet, to thrive and enjoy our lives, we must be willing to navigate this, so how do we do that?Today I give you three tips that take the sting, shame, and intensity out of disappointing others.- Tip one: ac

A crucial and often not taught or discussed aspect of healing and growth is valuing, praising, and appreciating our efforts REGARDLESS of the outcome.Growing up, my worth and my confidence were deeply tethered to outcomes. If the outcome was the "right one", I was worthy, safe, loveable, and could trust myself. If the outcome was the "wrong one", shame, self-dis