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Codependency Alchemy: The Podcast

Alyssa Zanderβ€’alyssaaazander.substack.com
Codependency Alchemy is a space for healing codependency through shadow work and inner child healing. Join Alyssa for the vulnerable conversations, personal stories, and hard truths that help you reclaim your voice, set soul-aligned boundaries, and create relationships rooted in self-trust and authenticity.

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Episodes

Forgiveness and Its Role in Deep Transformational Healing

Forgiveness can feel hard to reach, especially if we have been hurt or harmed in the past. I hope to offer some new perspectives in this weeks episode. What are 10 things you are ready to forgive yourself for? πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find the podcast! Resources: Codependency Alchemy: The Membership : Subscribe on Substack for weekly shadow work prompts, exclusive podcast episodes...

Jan 03, 2024β€’17 minβ€’Season 2Ep. 21

Reclaiming My Inner Child

Inner child work can be messy and intense, as it was for me this week! I go into it all in this week's episode. πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find the podcast! Resources: Codependency Alchemy: The Membership : Subscribe on Substack for weekly shadow work prompts, exclusive podcast episodes, and access to monthly masterclasses and group coaching calls. Take the next step in your healing...

Dec 27, 2023β€’34 minβ€’Season 2Ep. 20

How Resentment Ruins Relationships

Resentment is your teacher, and the sooner you listen to it the better off your relationships will be. πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find the podcast! Resources: Codependency Alchemy: The Membership : Subscribe on Substack for weekly shadow work prompts, exclusive podcast episodes, and access to monthly masterclasses and group coaching calls. Take the next step in your healing journey ...

Dec 20, 2023β€’28 minβ€’Season 2Ep. 19

How to Regulate Your Nervous System When You’re Fighting with Your Partner

Conflicts can bring out the worst in us, and they can also be catalysts for the deepest kinds of connection and intimacy. In this episode I share about what to do to avoid the nasty cut-throat interactions so that you can have heart-opening conversations that lead to productive and desired outcomes, for everyone. πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find the podcast! Resources: Codependency A...

Dec 13, 2023β€’27 minβ€’Season 2Ep. 18

Why People-Pleasing is Keeping You From Your Authenticity & Joy

Let's talk about people-pleasing, codependency, "making other people happy brings me happiness" and where this way of relating can actually be keeping you from accessing your authentic joy. Genuine happiness in relationships is built from an overflow of trust, safety, and love that's been cultivated from within yourself first. πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find the podcast! Resources: ...

Dec 06, 2023β€’22 minβ€’Season 2Ep. 17

How Taking Responsibility Heals Our Relationships (Q&A Session)

Taking radical personal responsibility rubs up against all of our fears of rejection and abandonment. It is, however, the very thing that can deeply heal our relationships with ourselves and others. In this episode I sit down with one of my best friends, Victoria St. Fleur (@ofrootandbranch), as she shares about some of the tools and perspectives that have helped her in healing codependency in her relationships, business, and life. πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please sh...

Nov 15, 2023β€’56 minβ€’Season 2Ep. 16

When You Can't Stand Your Partner

We've all been there (I think πŸ˜…) where you just can't stand your partner and you're at your wits end. In this episode I share something that has helped me overcome my limited perceptions of my partner and others so that I could experience more love and joy in my life and relationships. πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find the podcast! Resources: Codependency Alchemy: The Membership : Su...

Nov 15, 2023β€’21 minβ€’Season 2Ep. 15

Let's Get the Guys Perspective, Shall We? (Q&A Session)

This week we have a vvv special guest, Patrick, who is here to share with us how his relationship has changed since he and his partner began to tend to the codependency patterns in their relationship. πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find the podcast! Resources: Codependency Alchemy: The Membership : Subscribe on Substack for weekly shadow work prompts, exclusive podcast episodes, and acc...

Nov 01, 2023β€’30 minβ€’Season 2Ep. 14

When You Are Constantly Defending Yourself

Do you find yourself defending yourself all the time? In this episode we explore our fears around being wrong and bring in new ways of relating so that we can stop going to war with the ones we love. πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find the podcast! Resources: Codependency Alchemy: The Membership : Subscribe on Substack for weekly shadow work prompts, exclusive podcast episodes, and acce...

Nov 01, 2023β€’24 minβ€’Season 2Ep. 13

What the Healing Journey REALLY Looks Like (Q&A Session)

I get together with my bestie, Erynn (LPC), to talk about how to hold ourselves when the fear of abandonment comes in. Basically, we share about what the healing journey REALLY looks like. (Hint hint: it's messy AF, sis) πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find the podcast! Resources: Codependency Alchemy: The Membership : Subscribe on Substack for weekly shadow work prompts, exclusive podca...

Oct 18, 2023β€’36 minβ€’Season 2Ep. 12

From Chaos to Abundance: Healing and Finding Safety

Many of us have experienced periods of chaos, especially in our childhoods, and then we watch it play out in our relationships, careers, and personal lives. Years of normalizing chaos primed our nervous system to attune and be more comfortable in it. Wild paradox, right?! Chaos becomes our default state of "safety." But what if there's a path to a more abundant and genuinely safe existence? Check out this weeks podcast episode where I share about my personal path from chaos to abundance. πŸ™πŸΎ If...

Oct 18, 2023β€’25 minβ€’Season 2Ep. 11

"It's Always F*cking Safety!" (Q&A Session)

I get together with another Codependency Alchemy member to talk about fears around something we don't completely understand, and how it always's comes back to safety. We talk about embracing sexuality, fears around being sexualized, being in a state of fear, and more! πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find the podcast! Resources: Codependency Alchemy: The Membership : Subscribe on Substack...

Oct 04, 2023β€’35 minβ€’Season 2Ep. 10

Overcoming the Fear of Abandonment

Listen, we all experience a fear of abandonment, and in this episode I give a visual representation of this fear and how we can overcome it in our lives, relationships, and work. My intention is that you walk away feeling empowered, inspired, and lighter around the core wound of abandonment. πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find the podcast! Resources: Codependency Alchemy: The Membership...

Oct 04, 2023β€’27 minβ€’Season 2Ep. 9

When a Past Experience is Holding Us in Resentment (Q&A Session)

In this episode I coach a member from our Codependency Alchemy membership. We discuss her fear around "taking a step back" from her business and a reframe for this, and I also support her in moving through a past experience that was bringing up a lot of anger, frustration, and resentment. Grab this assessment πŸ‘‰πŸΎ Are You Codependent? 10 Questions to Ask Codependency Alchemy: The Course πŸ‘‰πŸΎ An in-depth self-paced course and workbook Join our community πŸ‘‰πŸΎ Subscribe on Substack We're celebratin...

Sep 20, 2023β€’43 minβ€’Season 2Ep. 8

Alchemizing Manipulation

In this Alchemy episode we will be moving through a somatic practice, bringing awareness to where manipulation lives in our body so that we can access the healing this part of us needs. This episode is best listened to when you can find yourself in a safe space where you won't be interrupted. πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find the podcast! Resources: Codependency Alchemy: The Membershi...

Sep 20, 2023β€’17 minβ€’Season 2Ep. 7

When You Feel Responsible For Everyone's Emotions (Q&A Session)

In this episode, I coach a mom who is navigating old toxic relationship dynamics, and how they impact her life as a partner and a mom. So much of what we learned, and how we learned to be, growing up can have an influence on how we relate to others in our adult life. If you have ever felt responsible for everyone's emotions and feelings, this episode will help you not feel so alone, and remind you who's feelings and emotions you ARE responsible for: yours. πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you o...

Sep 06, 2023β€’34 minβ€’Season 2Ep. 6

Ways You Are Manipulating (And Are Probably Unaware Of)

Me? Manipulate? YIKES. In this episode I get real and vulnerable with you about my first conscious exploration of manipulation, and how I started to see all the ways I WAS MANIPULATING while on a trip with my partner. You're gonna want to listen to this one, babes! πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find the podcast! Resources: Codependency Alchemy: The Membership : Subscribe on Substack fo...

Sep 06, 2023β€’35 minβ€’Season 2Ep. 5

When You Feel Like You're Talking to a Wall (Q&A Session)

Do you notice yourself getting angry when you feel that you have clearly conveyed or communicated something with someone and then they act like it was never heard or seen? Do you feel like you are sometimes talking to a wall? If you feel disrespected and frustrated when communicating your boundaries to others then this Q&A episode is for you! πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find the ...

Aug 16, 2023β€’34 minβ€’Season 2Ep. 4

Alchemizing Our Fears Around Enforcing Boundaries

When there is something we are struggling with, there is usually an underlying fear that is keeping us from doing the thing. In this weeks Alchemy episode we are going to move through the shadow work and somatic work for uncovering what those fears are, and meeting them within ourselves so that we can experience more compassion and joy in our lives and in our relationships. πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can r...

Aug 16, 2023β€’16 minβ€’Season 2Ep. 3

Boundary Burnout (Q&A Session)

I loved our conversation on feeling burnt out on enforcing boundaries, and how we can shift our perception of others misunderstanding (or outright ignoring) us and our boundaries from a victim mentality to one that is empowering (hint hint: it has to do with curiosity!) πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find the podcast! Resources: Codependency Alchemy: The Membership : Subscribe on Substa...

Aug 02, 2023β€’43 minβ€’Season 2Ep. 2

The Truth (You Need to Hear) About Boundaries

We hear a lot about boundaries and the importance of them, but there is this misconception that boundaries mean someone else needs to do (or not do) something in order to "respect" your boundaries... I have a hot take on this, have a listen! πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find the podcast! Resources: Codependency Alchemy: The Membership : Subscribe on Substack for weekly shadow work pro...

Aug 02, 2023β€’26 minβ€’Season 2Ep. 1

THAT'S A WRAP! Thank You for an Amazing Season One!

We celebrate the end of an incredible first season of Codependency Alchemy and share exciting news for the future! πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find the podcast! Resources: Codependency Alchemy: The Membership : Subscribe on Substack for weekly shadow work prompts, exclusive podcast episodes, and access to monthly masterclasses and group coaching calls. Take the next step in your heal...

Jun 21, 2023β€’9 minβ€’Season 1Ep. 13

Fear of Abandonment, Rejection, and Betrayal in Relationships

Join me as we unravel the intricate layers of fears that can often leave us feeling vulnerable and uncertain in our relationships and discover empowering ways to heal and transform it. Together, we'll explore a somatic practice that has personally supported me in my own journey of healing core wounds related to abandonment, rejection, and betrayal. πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find th...

Jun 21, 2023β€’24 minβ€’Season 1Ep. 12

Somatic Healing: The Fixer and Saviorism Trap (PART TWO)

In Part Two, we invite you to embark on a somatic journey, unraveling the roots of the pattern within your own body and unlocking the keys to self-empowerment. For the optimal experience, find a quiet space where you can close your eyes, creating an environment conducive to tapping into your inner wisdom. πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find the podcast! Resources: Codependency Alchemy: ...

Jun 07, 2023β€’16 minβ€’Season 1Ep. 11

The Fixer and Saviorism Trap (PART ONE)

As people with codependency tendencies, we often believe that fixing or saving others makes us good people, even viewing it as our "job." However, underneath this seemingly noble intention lies a web of unconscious beliefs that drive our need to fix or save others. In Part One of this episode we focus on addressing the shadow work, navigating the uncharted territory of our own unconscious, exposing the beliefs that drive our fixing and saving tendencies. πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on ...

Jun 07, 2023β€’23 minβ€’Season 1Ep. 10

Q&A: Nurturing Desires with Your Partner

In this episode, we emphasize the importance of getting clear on your desires and focusing on how they make you feel, rather than fixating on specific details. Uncover the steps you and your partner can take to manifest your desired experiences, creating a roadmap towards a more fulfilling and harmonious relationship. πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find the podcast! Resources: Codepende...

May 17, 2023β€’30 minβ€’Season 1Ep. 9

Self-Doubt and Fear

In this episode of Codependency Alchemy, we delve deep into the intricate relationship between self-doubt and fear, unraveling the hidden layers that often go unnoticed. My hope is that you will leave with newfound clarity and are empowered to take action steps towards transmuting and meeting this part of yourself with compassion and grace. πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find the podcas...

May 17, 2023β€’29 minβ€’Season 1Ep. 8

Overcoming Relationship Anxiety and Self-Sabotage

In this episode, we explore the topic of relationship anxiety and self-sabotage and how it can impact our ability to step fully into a healthy relationship. This episode will guide you through an inner child and shadow work practice to help you identify the root of your relationship anxiety and self-sabotaging behavior. πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find the podcast! Resources: Codepen...

May 03, 2023β€’25 minβ€’Season 1Ep. 7

Managing Codependency: A Personal Journey of Recognizing, Pausing, and Repairing

In this episode, I share my personal experiences with codependency and how it has manifested in seeking validation outside of myself and falling into the trap of fixing and saviorism with a family member. Join me as I discuss the power of self-awareness, personal responsibility, and the journey towards healing codependency. πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find the podcast! Resources: Cod...

May 03, 2023β€’33 minβ€’Season 1Ep. 6

Is it Chemistry or a Trauma Bond? Understanding the Difference

Have you ever felt an intense spark or love at first sight, only to realize later that it was a toxic and emotionally abusive relationship? In this episode, we explore the difference between chemistry and trauma bonding, and how to identify if you are in a healthy, loving relationship. πŸ™πŸΎ If the podcast is supporting you on your journey, please share and leave a rating or review so that other people can receive support and find the podcast! Resources: Codependency Alchemy: The Membership : Sub...

Apr 19, 2023β€’21 minβ€’Season 1Ep. 4
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