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Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

Melody Beattie

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Melody Beattie
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 26
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St Paul
Minnesota
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Today I will practice healthy giving, understanding that caretaking and compulsive giving don't work. I choose what I want to give, to whom, when, and how much. It takes time to learn how to give in healthy ways. It takes time to learn to receive. Balance will come.
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Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.
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Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.
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A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.
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Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.
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Writing forces consciousness.
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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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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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Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other peoples best interests.
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We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.
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Panic, not the task, is the enemy.
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What's a codependent? The answer's easy. They're some of the most loving, caring people I know.
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Seek healing, a refilling of energy and spirit, as soon as you see that you need it. You don't have to push yourself to give, do, or perform when what your body, mind, soul and emotions need is to heal.
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Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.
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Anger is a warning signal. It points to problems.
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We have as much time as we need.
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When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float.
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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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Gratitude turns what we have into enough.
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Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.
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