We cannot afford to put our needs on hold, waiting for another person to fulfill us, make our life better, or come around and be who and what we want that person to be. That will create resentment, hostility, an […]
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Anxiety Is Not Caring
I pray that I may be rid of the anxiety which I have equated in my mind with really caring about people. ~ Quoted from the app A Day at a Time, Hazelden. Living or working with an addict “in his cups” […]
Continue reading »A Disease of the Spirit
For many others, however, it is clear that what compulsive overeaters and alcoholics have in common is a need to nourish the spiritual side of their nature. ~ The Reverend Rollo M. Boas in Appendix D,Overeaters Anonymous, Third Edition (quotations are […]
Continue reading »My Responsibility
If you want to get rid of it, you have to do something to make it go away. It doesn’t matter whose fault it is. Your codependency becomes your problem; solving your problems is your responsibility.~ Melony Beattie. Codependent No […]
Continue reading »That Codependent Problem
The way you bleed for those who will not tend your wounds is self harm ~ Nigeen Dara Codependency: “excessive emotional or psychological reliance on a partner, typically a partner who requires support due to an illness or addiction.” Would […]
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