When I first began my healing journey, my primary focus was healing from a toxic marriage. For me, that sounded like addressing my codependency symptoms head-on, with therapy, devouring books on love addiction and codependency. It was not long before it became apparent to me that my world, including my marriage, failing health, and mental and emotional decline, was the effect of a cause I was blind to at the time, and so, my attention broadened. But first, I had to learn how to yank the new tree