Maria is a relationship coach who coaches codependents, ‘women and men that are in recovery from codependency to attract and manifest that relationship’. And by that relationship she means helping them to find, ‘a healthy loving relationship’. She goes on to explain, ‘40 years ago they could tell that if you grew up with addiction… you’d have some of the characteristics of codependency but the conversation has moved on and today we know that one of the hallmarks of codependent behaviour is you just grew up in a dysfunctional family’.

This is an area close to Maria’s heart as she married an addict and then slid into workaholism because of her codependency.  She says, ‘I’d work round the clock 12 hours a day with maybe 20 minutes break because I didn’t have to feel I could be just a human doing and I think it’s important to recognise that. But what’s underlying codependent behaviour is shame and low self-esteem.’ Over 20 years later she is now a trained coach and in a healthy nurturing relationship and wants to provide the help she wishes she’d been able to get when she was younger. 

Maria explains, ‘without any work if you have codependency, or you identify with it by the time you’re in midlife you’ll either be divorced maybe twice. Or, you’ll maybe not do a relationship because it’s too painful to be intimate with somebody… or jump from relationship to relationship.’ That’s why more education schools would lead to much better satisfying lives for younger people. Afterall, ‘the quality of our lives depends on our relationships with ourselves and with others’. The interview was recorded on Thursday 7th Oct at 2pm BST. 

For more information go to 👉https://mariawybrow.com/
👉https://www.clubhouse.com/club/acoa-codependent-rec 

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