The Boy and The Ogre is a story about the restoration of the Six Freedoms that we come into life with as God's gift to us. The Six Freedoms are to be developed, nurtured and grown so that we can live fully in relationship with ourselves, others, and God. When we are taught to give up the heartbeat of the freedoms, the result is codependency. In it's simplest form, codependency is the loss of self-awareness, self-trust, self-expression, and inherent sense of worth that allow us genuinely to depend on others and God for relational connection, which is the "food of life." We lose the capacity to thrive as we are created by God to do. In codependency, survival takes the place of our inherent desire to thrive. Recovery ushers us into the lives we are created to have.