Robert Burney will be appearing in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio on May 14th, 2005. He will be the speaker at a Co-Dependents Anonymous Speaker Meeting at 10 am on that Saturday morning and is offering a workshop at 3:30 pm that afternoon.
Codependency is an emotional and behavioral defense system which our egos adapted in early childhood to help us survive. We were raised in shame based, emotionally dishonest, Spiritually hostile environments by parents who were wounded in their childhoods by patriarchal, shame based civilization that treated children and women as property." - Robert Burney
Robert Burney will be appearing in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio on May 14th, 2005. He will be the speaker at a Co-Dependents Anonymous Speaker Meeting at 10 am on that Saturday morning and is offering a workshop at 3:30 pm that afternoon. |
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 Codependence:
The Dance of Wounded Souls has been called "one of the truly
transformational works of our time" - and it's author Robert Burney referred
to as "a metaphysical Stephen Hawking." A therapist and Spiritual
Teacher whose work has been compared to John Bradshaw's "except much more
spiritual" and described as "taking inner child healing to a new level,"
Robert has developed a holistic strategy for emotional healing that is
the next level of recovery from codependency so many people have been seeking.
In his book, he postulates that Codependence (i.e. outer or external dependence) has been the Human Condition - and that we have now entered a new Age of Healing and Joy in which it is possible to heal the planet through healing our relationships with self. He combines Twelve Step Recovery Principles, Metaphysical Truth, and Native American Spirituality with Quantum Physics and Molecular Biology in The Dance of Wounded Souls in presenting his belief that we are all connected, we are all extensions of the Divine, and that ultimately Love is our True essence. |
 "This
dance of Codependence is a dance of dysfunctional relationships - of relationships
that do not work to meet our needs. That does not mean just romantic
relationships, or family relationships, or even human relationships in
general. The fact that dysfunction exists in our romantic, family,
and human relationships is a symptom of the dysfunction that exists
in our relationship with life - with being human. It is a symptom
of the dysfunction which exists in our relationships with ourselves as
human beings. And the dysfunction that exists in our relationship
with ourselves is a symptom of Spiritual dis-ease, of not being in balance
and harmony with the universe, of feeling disconnected from our Spiritual
source."
"It is necessary to own and honor the child who we were in order to Love the person we are. And the only way to do that is to own that child's experiences, honor that child's feelings, and release the emotional grief energy that we are still carrying around." "The point that I am making is that our understanding of Codependence has evolved to realizing that this is not just about some dysfunctional families, our very role models, our prototypes, are dysfunctional. Our traditional cultural concepts of what a man is, of what a woman is, are twisted, distorted, almost comically bloated stereotypes of what masculine and feminine really are." |
"It was vitally important for me to learn how to have internal boundaries so that I could lovingly parent (which, of course, includes setting boundaries for) my inner children, tell the critical parent/disease voice to shut up, and start accessing the emotional energy of Truth, Beauty, Joy, Light, and Love. It was by learning internal boundaries that I could begin to achieve some integration and balance in my life, and transform my experience of life into an adventure that is enjoyable and exciting most of the time."
Inner Child Healing - a path to freedom, serenity, and empowermentAn Interactive Workshop with Robert Burney MA author of Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls
Robert, whose work is firmly grounded on Twelve Step Spiritual Principles and emotional energy release / grief process therapy, learned in his own personal recovery that developing internal boundaries was the key to empowerment and freedom from the past. If you want to learn how to relax and enjoy life in the moment, while you are healing and learning to Love your self, you don't want to miss this workshop. |
Robert would be pleased and happy to be invited to speak at any twelve step meeting or convention. For any location that is more than a reasonable drive (about 4 hours) Robert will need to get expenses and lodging to help him afford to take time out of his regular schedule. For any CoDA or other 12 step group that is a distance away - especially any location that will require travel by air - Robert will need to be able to make some income on the trip in addition to expenses as part of having a healthy boundary that honors the value of his time and his need to pay the rent every month. The best way this can be handled on any trips of a distance, is to have Robert speak in the 12 step setting where he can share his story as a recovering Codependent - and schedule a separate workshop independent of the 12 step group - as is being done in this Ohio appearance. That way there is no violation of the traditions by charging for admission and selling the book and audio tapes of Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls at the workshop.
January 8, 2005 - a message from Robert.
I included the above disclaimer in my book -
and on any of the pages of my site where I am writing directly about AA
or the twelve steps - out of respect for Alcoholics Anonymous. However,
it is the black and white thinking of codependency that causes many in
AA to be rigid and closed minded - to insist for instance, that drugs not
be discussed in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings (alcohol is of course a drug.)
Since many of the people who started CoDependents Anonymous came from AA,
there is a certain level of black and white thinking that sometimes comes
up in CoDA business meetings and affairs. Because of this type of
right and wrong / black and white thinking, I included this note at the
bottom of the page in one of the articles in my series on The
Miracle of The Twelve Step Recovery Process.
"I am inserting a note here for anyone who feels offended by what they see as a violation of the Eleventh Tradition of AA's Twelve Traditions. The 11th Tradition of AA is:Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films.I routinely break my own anonymity in regard to the fact that I am a recovering alcoholic / addict and codependent because I do not believe I would be alive today if Betty Ford had not broken her anonymity in the late 1970s and brought the subject of alcoholism out of the closet into public view. She is one of the people I dedicated my book to because I believe that I personally owe her a debt of gratitude for her courage and honesty. Breaking my own anonymity is one way that I carry the message of hope that saved my life. Anyone whose black and white thinking is causing them to rigidly interpret the Twelve Steps and Traditions enough to be offended, desperately needs to get into codependency recovery in my opinion." - Robert Burney 2/10/04 The Miracle of The Twelve Step Recovery Process Steps 10 thru 12 - The Maintenance Steps Part 1
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Codependency
therapist, inner child healing pioneer, Spiritual Teacher, Robert Burney
has developed a pioneering approach to codependency recovery - an inner
child healing paradigm - that offers a powerful, life changing formula
for integrating Love, Spiritual Truth, and intellectual knowledge of healthy
behavior into one's emotional experience of life - a blueprint for individuals
to transform their core relationship with self and life.
