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...the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.

Melody Beattie

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Melody Beattie
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 26
Author
Writer
St Paul
Minnesota
Profound
Loving
Trouble
Pain
Comes
Someone

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If somebody rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you would be if you had not been rejected.
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Codependents are reactionaries. They overreact. They under-react. But rarely do they act. They react to the problems, pains, lives, and behaviors of others. They react to their own problems, pains, and behaviors.
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Writing forces consciousness.
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Few situations - no matter how greatly they appear to demand it - can be bettered by us going beserk.
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When our heart is broken, we can't hear it. And when we can't hear our heart, we can't hear God.
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Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be.
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Expressing passion and gratitude will guide your life. Say it again and again. Say it until you believe it. Say it until you live it.
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Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.
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If that person doesn't want to be in your life, just let him or her leave.
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Panic is our great enemy.
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Today I will learn to reject shame. Shame is an overwhelming sense that who I am isn't good enough. I realize that I am good enough, and that my imperfections are part of being human. I let go of shame.
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I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there for her every need for three years might have looked codependent but it wasn't because it was what I wanted to do.
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Today I will refuse to jump into the middle of others' affairs, issues, and relationships. I will trust others to work out their own problems, including the ideas and feelings they want to communicate to each other.
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You don't blast a heart open, she said. You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.
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Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.
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We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.
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... I've learned that I have many, many soul mates here, and they come to me at the right time and in the right place. They come to help me when I'm lost, and each comes with different sets of lessons for me -- usually, always, my most intense lessons -- the ones my soul came here to learn.
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When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float.
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It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.
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Arranging for and allowing ourselves to have fun is an important part of taking care of ourselves. It helps us stay healthy. It helps us work better. It balances life. We deserve to have fun. Fun is a normal part of being alive. Fun is taking time to celebrate being alive.
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