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Book SynopsisAre you the person everyone comes to when they''re in a jam?
Do you regularly accommodate others'' needs and preferences?
Does it feel like chaos will ensue if you don''t handle the travel plans, divvy up the check at group dinners, sort out your friend''s latest crisis, and so on?
If these questions resonate, the odds are good that you are one of the overgiving, overextending individuals struggling with what psychotherapist and boundary expert Terri Cole has termed high-functioning codependency (HFC).
When you hear the word codependent, you might think of the traditional enabler framework involving a hapless victim and their selfless rescuer. Terri certainly did. But after years in her therapy practice, she realized that many of her clients were presenting codependent behaviors that fell outside of the classic model.
The ironic truth with HFC is that the more capable you are the more codependency doesn''t look like codepend
