"How Do You Manage Escapism, Marshall?"

<p>&quot;How Do You Manage Escapism, Marshall?&quot;<br/><br/>Firstly, what is escapism?<br/><br/>It is the tendency to seek distraction and releif from painful realities.  <br/><br/>In codependency, escapism shows up as:<br/><br/>1) Being hyperfocused on the realities of others, their feelings, and their lives (so you can escape your own emptiness, loneliness, or pain)<br/><br/>2) Medicating emotional pain through food, sex, needlessness, work, productivity, and avoiding conflict<br/><br/>3) Fantasies about finding &quot;the one&quot;, being made complete in a relationship, or being rescued and finally loved a specific way<br/><br/>4) Actively denying and ignoring your pain and your emptiness. Everything is &quot;fine&quot;<br/><br/>5) Seeking to regulate and rescue others in hopes they&apos;ll rescue you<br/><br/>What ways has escapism showed up for you?<br/><br/>Now, what do we do to manage this? Escapism signals that you are low on resources to help you navigate pain and create more nurturing patterns in your daily life.  <br/><br/>Specifically, you will need to:<br/><br/>1) Learn How To Sooth Pain: Learn how to bring soothing and care to pain and to distress in the body through nervous system care and emotional processing<br/><br/>2) Build Connections:  With support communities, play communities, friendships, and nurturing bonds<br/><br/>3) Reconnection with Reality:  Confront your fantasies, deconstruct them, and reconnect with what is reality through soberly acknowledging to the facts of your reality and acting appropriately from that information<br/><br/>4) Build, practice, and master well-being skills: This involves creating new, lasting skills that soothe and care for your pain, nurture your needs and wants, and foster your well-being through community, purpose, and self-loyalty<br/><br/>I help you make this a reality in the Heal Your Codependency Membership.<br/><br/>Our first training series starts July 9th:  The Actually Heal Trainings.<br/><br/>Care for and bring peace to your pain and hurts using t