Breaking Ties: A Journey Through Codependency

What happens when the patterns that once kept you alive begin to cost you yourself?

This is a raw, deeply human story about a life shaped by survival, silence, and the behaviours we learn when the world teaches us to endure more than we ever should have. It traces the quiet wounds, the repeated cycles, and the self-sabotaging choices that form when love feels conditional and worth feels negotiable.

Through heartbreak, revelation, and healing, this story invites you into the intimate process of unlearning, of reclaiming your voice, your boundaries, and your sense of self with clarity and compassion.

At the centre of this journey is a game-changing discovery: Codependency - the framework that finally gave language to years of confusion, emotional entanglement, and inherited patterns. It became the lifeline that helped make sense of everything I had carried, and everything I had become.

If you've ever disappeared inside someone else's needs, this book is for you. If you've poured from an empty cup, loved past your limits, or held on when you should've let go - this is your mirror. It's for anyone ready to name their patterns and come home to themselves.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR LEE KHOZA

Lee Khoza is a corporate professional, writer, and founder of Go Beyond Codependency - a coaching ecosystem designed to help people unlearn the patterns that once felt like survival. She is a passionate advocate for personal behaviour change, and brings warmth, clarity, and lived insight to her work.

When she's not writing, coaching, or mentoring, Lee finds her calm in swimming, cooking, and candle crafting - grounding rituals that create space for honest self reflection. Her mission is to share the codependency framework that became her lifeline, with the hope that it becomes someone else's.

Her work today is rooted in helping people understand themselves with compassion, courage, and a renewed sense of self - offering the pillars and practices that support real, lasting transformation.