Codependency: Stop Losing Yourself In Relationships - by Katharine Chestnut

COURSE

Codependency: Stop Losing Yourself In Relationships

With Katharine Chestnut

Caring deeply for others should not require losing yourself. Explore patterns commonly associated with codependency, including people-pleasing, taking responsibility for other people's feelings, fixing and rescuing, overexplaining, and ignoring your own needs to maintain connection. Through practical teachings, mindfulness, self inquiry, and guided practices, you'll learn to recognize these patterns without judgment, reconnect with what you want, communicate more clearly, and remain grounded when someone else is disappointed. You'll leave with practical tools for caring about others while staying connected to yourself.

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Meet your Teacher

Katharine Chestnut
Atlanta, GA, USA

Katharine Chestnut is a mindfulness meditation teacher, author, and personal growth guide who helps people move from overwhelm and survival mode toward greater calm, clarity, and self-trust. Drawing from decades of mindfulness practice and her own journey through burnout, emotional abuse, and major life transitions, Katharine brings a grounded, no fluff approach to personal growth. Her teachings blend meditation, breathwork, journaling, nervous system regulation, and practical mindfulness tools that can be used in real life. Through her meditations, talks, courses, and live sessions, Katharine creates a supportive space to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and build the inner steadiness to navigate life with greater resilience and confidence.

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7 Days

4 students

No ratings

17 min / day

Compassion

English

Lesson 1

When Caring Becomes Losing Yourself

In this first lesson, you'll begin recognizing the subtle ways caring for others can become losing track of yourself. Through teaching and guided self inquiry, you'll explore automatic helping, accommodating, fixing, and people pleasing patterns without judging or trying to immediately change them. You'll leave with a simple awareness practice that helps you notice when you're responding to someone else before checking in with yourself. Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke

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Lesson 2

Their Feelings Are Not Your Assignment

Learn the difference between caring about someone's feelings and becoming responsible for changing them. This lesson introduces emotional differentiation and the Mine, Yours, Ours practice to help you recognize what genuinely belongs to you within a relationship. You'll practice staying compassionate and connected while allowing another person to have their own emotional experience. Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke

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Lesson 3

Pause Before You Rescue

Explore the automatic urge to fix, rescue, manage, or say yes before you've had time to decide what you actually want to do. Through the Sacred Pause practice, you'll learn to notice the impulse to help without immediately acting on it. You'll leave with a simple tool for creating more space between someone else's need and your response. Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke

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Lesson 4

What Do You Actually Want?

When you spend a lot of time anticipating what other people need, it can become surprisingly difficult to know what you want. This lesson helps you turn your attention inward through an Inner Listening Practice designed to reconnect you with your preferences, needs, and inner knowing. You'll practice hearing your own answer before automatically considering everyone else's. Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke

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Lesson 5

Say What You Mean Without the Essay

Knowing what you want is one thing. Saying it without explaining, justifying, apologizing, or seeking approval can be much harder. In this lesson, you'll explore what may be underneath the urge to over explain and practice One Breath, One Truth, a mindfulness technique for communicating clearly while staying connected to yourself. Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke

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Lesson 6

Let Them Be Disappointed

Someone else's disappointment can feel like evidence that you've done something wrong, especially when you're accustomed to keeping other people happy. In this lesson, you'll practice staying grounded when someone doesn't like your answer without immediately explaining, fixing, or changing your decision. Learn to let their feelings and your choice exist at the same time. Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke

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Lesson 7

Stay Connected Without Leaving Yourself

Bring the course together by choosing the three practices that will best help you stay connected to yourself while caring for others. Through the Three Returns practice, you'll revisit the skills you've learned and create a simple, personal approach you can use when old patterns of fixing, pleasing, explaining, or self-abandonment return. Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke

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