Isn't it healthy to have certain expectations?

<p>Isn&apos;t it healthy to have certain expectations?<br/><br/>In healing your codependency, your understanding of what expectations really are and how we use them to foster well-being and happiness must shift.<br/><br/>For most, expectations seem like a logical, normal, healthy factor in relationships.  In my work, expectations are the center of a lot of conflict, misunderstanding, and unnecessary pain.  <br/><br/>This stops when you shift from expectations to desires and standards.<br/><br/>Learn what this means and how to do it in today&apos;s episode!<br/><br/>***<br/><br/>Seeking help in healing codependency? Join The Heal Your Codependency Community and get access to weekly experiments, practices, and support in your healing journey: https://community.freetheself.com<br/><br/>***<br/><br/>Connect with me on YouTube, Instagram, my Podcast, and via email: https://links.freetheself.com<br/><br/>***<br/><br/>Submit questions for the YouTube Live Friday Question Sessions.  Submit them here: https://ask.freetheself.com<br/><br/><br/>***<br/><br/>[The Actually Heal Trainings Are Open For Enrollment]<br/><br/>Discover how to stop fixing your pain and actually heal instead.  <br/><br/>This means feeling a noticible reduction in pain, and even resolution of hurts and traumas.  <br/><br/>This also means feeling more peace, more emotional and mental space, more confidence in yourself, more clarity about what you want and desire, more ease in taking action towards your desires, facing risk, and actually enjoying your life.<br/><br/>I teach you how to do reduce and resolve the pain that&apos;s been in the way of your peace and happiness in my 8-week Actually Heal Trainings.  Specifically, you will learn:<br/><br/>- How to regulate and soothe the body to increase safety for healing<br/>- How to build warm capacity and space for your pain to be witnessed and cared for while feeling safer and within your window of capacity using the C.I.C. Framework<br/>- How to start believing that your feelings and lived experiences actu