Welcome©
We welcome you to Co-Dependents Anonymous - a program of recovery from codependence,
where each of us may share our experience, strength, and hope in our efforts
to find freedom where there has been bondage, and peace where there has been
turmoil in our relationships with others and ourselves.
Most of us have been searching for ways to overcome the dilemmas of the conflicts
in our relationships and our childhood. Many of us were raised in families where
addictions existed - some of us were not. In either case, we have found in each
of our lives that codependence is a most deeply-rooted, compulsive behavior,
and that it is born out of our sometimes moderately, sometimes extremely dysfunctional
family systems.
We have each experienced in our own ways the painful trauma of the emptiness
of our childhood and relationships throughout our lives. We attempted to use
others - our mates, our friends, and even our children, as our sole source of
identity, value, and well being and as a way of trying to restore within us
the emotional losses from our childhoods. Our histories may include other powerful
addictions, which at times we have used to cope with our codependency.
We have all learned to survive life, but in CoDA, we are learning to live life.
Through applying the Twelve Steps and principles found in CoDA to our daily
life and relationships, both present and past, we can experience a new freedom
from our self-defeating lifestyles. It is an individual growth process. Each
of us is growing at our own pace and will continue to do so as we remain open
to God’s will for us on a daily basis. Our sharing is our way of identification
and helps us to free the emotional bonds of our past and the compulsive control
of our present.
No matter how traumatic your past or despairing your present may seem, there
is hope for a new day in the program of Co-Dependents Anonymous. No longer do
you need to rely on others as a power greater than yourself. May you instead
find here a new strength within to be that which God intended - Precious and
Free.
CoDA Fellowship Service Manual / Page 74
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