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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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Melody Beattie
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 26
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St Paul
Minnesota
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
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Panic is our great enemy.
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Gratitude helps us stop trying to control outcomes. It is the key that unlocks positive energy in our life. It is the alchemy that turns problems into blessings, and the unexpected into gifts.
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Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment
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Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart.
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Anger is a warning signal. It points to problems.
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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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Real power comes when we stop holding others responsible for our pain, and we take responsibility for all our feelings.
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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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God loves me enough to let me go through all the lessons I came here to learn, even the ones that hurt the most. His presence doesn't deny me. It's always there to help me see and understand what I came to this planet to learn.
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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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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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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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Today I will focus on a peaceful pace, rather than a harried one. I will keep moving forward gently, not frantically. I will let go of my need to be anxious and upset and will replace these feelings with calmness and harmony.
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We decided that sooner or later you had to learn to live without almost everybody, at least for a while. Even people you didn't think you could live without. p 167 love always found itself again.
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He talks about God, and loving God. he says that when we open to loving a person, whether that person is a spouse, friend, or child, we open our hearts to loving God. He says when we let someone love us, we're opening our hearts to god's love. he says the acts are the same. p 19 I decide loving isn't for the fain. Its for the courageous. p 19
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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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Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.
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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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