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How Quickly Does Their Problem Become Yours? Ditch Auto-Accommodating and Stay in Your Lane with Terri Cole

Category: Comedy
Duration: 00:46:00
Publish Date: 2025-10-20 12:00:00
Description:

Delanie Fischer chats with licensed psychotherapist Terri Cole about high-functioning codependency (HFC) and how to set healthy boundaries to prevent burn out, resentment, and feeling underappreciated. They explore signs like auto advice-giving, auto-accommodating, and keeping the peace at all costs, and uncover why many try to control others unknowingly. Terri shares actionable tools for shifting these over-functioning behaviors to let go of what’s not your responsibility—freeing up your time and energy while empowering those around you.


Discussed in this episode: 

  • Busting The Biggest Codependency Myth
  • Hyper-Independence and Anticipatory Planning
  • Auto Advice-Giving and The Auto-Yes
  • Taking Your Resentment Inventory
  • Let Them Be The Hero of Their Story
  • Escaping the Cult of Nice
  • 5 Scripts for Setting New Boundaries
  • How To Identify a Transference
  • Primary vs. Secondary Gain
  • 8 Questions to Ask Before You Fix or Rescue

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