ABOUT THE BOOK
Counseling is helping profession, counselors are caring and compassionate, and counselors like any other human beings are susceptible to codependency. Yet, counselors have all that it takes to show compassion without enabling or slipping into codependency as long as they are aware of their own issues, not trying to be controlling and not trying to fix othersÕ problems or taking responsibility for the problems of others that are not theirs.
Dr Joyzy Pius Egunjobi has, through this book, systematically guide those in health profession on the need to be aware of the very thin line betweeen showing compassion and becoming codependent. By becoming aware of the signs and symptoms of codependency, helpers will be able to take precautions and learn how to take care of their own physical and mental health.
It is a call to health professionals: "Physician, heal yourself".