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We can trust ourselves to know when our boundaries are being violated.

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Twelve-step promotes spirituality, not religion. It gives a practical, day-to-day spirituality that tells me what I can and cannot control. There is room to be imperfect and to be someone who struggles to find God.

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Guilt can stop us from taking healthy care of ourselves.

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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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What do you do when life blindfolds you and spins you around? We think it's our fault, that we're to blame, when really we should be focused on being gentle with ourselves.

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It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear.

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We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.

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Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs.

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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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There are almost as many definitions of co-dependency as there are experiences that represent it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: May 26th, 1948

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