Episode 20 - What Do You Want to Do With All That Love? - Healing Codependency with Erika Wright

Welcome to Crystal Ballers, a podcast celebrating the audacity to create our future now, with your hosts Britten LaRue (she/her) and Natasha Levinger (she/her). This week, Britten & Natasha are excited to welcome special guest, codependency counselor Erika Wright In this episode: Natasha may get to see The Format live! Natasha's rapid growth working with dragon guides Britten is being interviewed for the Dallas Morning News Erika is immediately and officially anointed a baller How Erika turned the scourge of her life (codependency) into a job she loves Independence is the opposite of codependency Helping people take the shame and self-deprecation out of codependency recovery How can you move forward if shame stops you from seeing the patterns in your life? Erika: Libra's are wired for codependency What a blessing it is to get to heal from codependency Bringing consciousness to parenting to avoid instilling codependency How Erika responded to innate codependent tendencies in her own kids Learning to sit with sensitivity without assigning stories or blame How difficult it can be to not make other people's your own Acknowledging psychic capacities with kids Instilling energetic autonomy, responsibility, and hygiene in young kids Can you help someone with an energetic problem who is not open to energy work How the long history of patriarchy's relationship to women impacts modern relationships Erika's definition of codependency: The manipulation and control of other people's feeling states, and of your own American culture absolutely abhors vulnerability "How do I love people and accept them exactly as they are and leave them alone?" Sacred reciprocity is the natural antidote to the highly polarized ways of being we all of us experience under capitalism, patriarchy, white supremacy, etc. "You and me" not "you or me" How lucky we are to live in a time where we now have the tools to dismantle the harmful structures around us Loving ourselves more is a thing we all get to heal together The behavioral and emotional cues of codependent patterning: guilt, betrayal, resentment, disappointment, expectation, martyrdom, suffering, people-pleasing, conditional and transactional love. Erika's work doing individual and group codependency counseling The healing power of realizing you are not unique or special in your suffering How to begin healing from codependency: stop lying The hidden selfishness of codependency "Welcome to the Age of Aquarius. Shit's gonna get really fuckin' weird." And more Plus... Natasha's new psychic membership, You Are The Oracle, is open for registration! But only until July 21! Sign up by the 15th to get free early bird bonuses. Learn more or sign up here. Mystics Making Money, Britten's series of 8 live workshops starts soon. Learn more or sign up here. Want to work with Natasha one on one? Book a session or learn more at natashalevinger.com. If you like this podcast, please leave a 5-star review and tell your friends about us! Erika's Info: Website: https://www.erikawright.org Instagram: @erikawrighthcd   Crystal Ballers is a weekly podcast hosted by mystics Natasha Levinger and Britten LaRue. Inspired by Pluto’s shift into Aquarius, it’s space to celebrate the audacity to create our Future now. In a world that minimizes the subjective experience, it takes swagger to validate our dreams, desires, and visions in co-creation with the unseen, the unexplainable, and the felt. Britten and Natasha invite listeners into the concept of "skilled feelership" - the practice of honoring and developing one's intuitive abilities as a skill, rather than seeing it as a fixed trait. They explore the reclamation of feminine power, intuitive development, and the collective shift happening in 2025 and beyond. With weekly episodes and monthly guests, Crystal Ballers’ primary goal is to support listeners in staying present to their power no matter what astrological and energetic shifts are present.