Heard at a meeting: This program has given me some compassion for myself. ~ Miranda It’s a good day to be a work in progress. ~ JT Compassion: sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others. We’re taught […]
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With Yourself
…you’ve got to go home with yourself. ~ Julia Roberts Perhaps you came into these rooms hating yourself, outside-in. Perhaps…probably…you learned the real issue, chronologically, started with your insides and moved out. But you do have to go home with […]
Continue reading »Real Humility
…there’s a big difference between humility and discounting ourselves. ~Beattie, Melody. The Language of Letting Go: Hazelden Meditation Series (p. 154). Hazelden Publishing. Kindle Edition. In OA we learned that low self-esteem was not at all the same as humility. […]
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Through our commitment to anonymity we can put aside what we are and begin to know who we are. ~ Family Groups, Al-Anon. Courage to Change—One Day at a Time in Al‑Anon II (Kindle Locations 290-292). Al-Anon Family Groups. Kindle […]
Continue reading »The Way to Love
“I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.” ~ Erich Fromm Codependent. Excessive emotional or psychological reliance on a partner, typically a […]
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