In this episode I asked Robert Burney, a pioneer in the area of codependency recovery & inner child healing, to talk about his perspective on Codependence. Years ago when I was researching Codependence he was the first one I found to take a comprehensive, psycho-emotional-spiritual view of the makings of this childhood defense mechanism. He also, is the only one I know of making it a broader human condition. I wanted to share his in depth description of the myriad of ways in co-dependence shows up in our lives. * Learn about his path of codependence recovery born out of his own sobriety. * His inclusive and universal definition of Codependence,.* How codependence develops as a defense mechanism effecting our neurological pathways and spiritual connection. * How to healthfully build back a relationship with ourselves that clears this pattern.  * How to find the emotional material we have not addressed. * The dangers of traditional "detachment" and Law of Attraction teachings. His first book Codependence The Dance of Wounded Souls has been called "one of the truly transformational works of our time.”  His website http://joy2meu.com offers over 200 pages of free original content on codependency recovery, inner child healing, relationship dynamics, alcoholism/addiction, fear of intimacy, Twelve Step Spirituality, New Age Metaphysics, emotional abuse, setting boundaries, grief process, and much more.  Robert has a mobile friendly website - http://joy2meu2.com which was launched in May 2018 - is a redesign of the joy2meu.com home page and site index page in mobile friendly format to link people to his free original content on sites that provide a mobile friendly format.