Host Ava Grey explores how the self-help movement transformed codependency from an invisible pattern into a named phenomenon, examining what the 1980s recovery movement got right about giving people language for their pain—and what it dangerously oversimplified. Drawing on neuroscience and cult psychology, she reveals why understanding your cage isn't the same as escaping it.

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