博客來You are not broken - you adapted.
If love has meant self-sacrifice, people-pleasing, or losing yourself in relationships, this trauma-informed guide offers a gentle path to healing codependency without shame, force, or self-betrayal.
If you’ve spent your life caring for others while neglecting yourself...
If saying no fills you with guilt...
If love has meant self-sacrifice, anxiety, or losing your sense of self...
You are not broken.
You adapted.
Breaking Free from Codependency offers a gentle, trauma-informed approach to healing the patterns of people-pleasing, emotional self-abandonment, and over-responsibility that often begin in early relationships.
Rather than labeling codependency as weakness or dysfunction, this book reframes it as a survival response - especially common among highly sensitive and empathic individuals. With compassion and clarity, Kathy Jackson guides readers through understanding where these patterns come from and how to heal them without shame or force.
Inside, you’ll explore:
How childhood emotional dynamics shape adult relationships
Why boundaries feel so difficult - and how to set them with self-respect
How to release the rescuer role and the need to fix others
Ways to rebuild self-trust and inner authority
How to create healthier relationships without losing yourself
What it means to live from wholeness rather than survival
The book concludes with guided practices designed to support nervous system regulation, self-compassion, and embodied healing - offering tools you can return to again and again.
This is not a book about becoming less loving.
It is about becoming more rooted in yourself.
If you are ready to stop abandoning yourself for connection and begin living from clarity, self-respect, and emotional freedom, Breaking Free from Codependency offers a supportive path home.
