What Codies Do
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My name's Jane. I'm a codie. And this is what codies do. You cannot nor will not change my behavior. You cannot make me treat myself better, let alone with any respect. All I care about, all I think about, is everyone else’s needs and how to go about fulfilling them. Within five minutes of meeting you, I will be offering you help. My own feelings are so pushed down and numbed by my enabling that I have no empathy for myself. My behavior cannot and will not change until I make a decision to stop enabling and then follow it up with a plan of action to practice acceptance, self-compassion and self-care. And until I make that decision, I will help again and again and again. Stop being surprised. I am a codie. And that's what codies do.