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We see and understand more about our behaviors. We come aware. And aware. And aware. . . Often, we feel uncertain about what to do with all this awareness.

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Awareness, Behavior, Uncertain

Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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There is honor in all work, in all tasks, but take it one step further. Make what you do a labor of love. Then your work will truly touch and change the world in the way you desire. The work you do, whatever your chosen field, will be work that heals.

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Honor, Desire, Tasks

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Writing forces consciousness.

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Writing, Consciousness, Force

Melody Beattie (2013). “The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Live When It All Seems Too Hard to Take”, p.17, Harper Collins

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We have as much time as we need.

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Time, Needs, Time Of Need

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God, help me let go of my need to be afraid. I welcome peace, trust, acceptance, and safety into my life. I will make a point of listening to my healthy, rational fears, and will relinquish all the others.

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Letting Go, Acceptance, Safety

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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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Pain, Problem, Behavior

Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, p.36, Hazelden Publishing

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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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Inspirational, Heart, Rose

Melody Beattie (2013). “The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Live When It All Seems Too Hard to Take”, p.13, Harper Collins

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Today I will surrender to discipline. I realize that sometimes it takes time to see the fruits of my labors, yet I still need to practice discipline. Help me to remember, God, that I'm moving forward, and that I'm learning the very important art of discipline.

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Art, Moving, Practice

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Beliefs create reality

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Inspirational, Reality, Belief

Melody Beattie (1990). “The Language of Letting Go”, p.76, Hazelden Publishing

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God, help me remember that when I admit and accept the truth, I'll be given the power and guidance to change.

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Helping, Remember, God Help Me

Melody Beattie (2009). “More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations”, Simon and Schuster

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...the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.

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Meditation, Spite, Plans

Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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Living our lives may not be an exciting prospect to some of us either. Maybe we've been so wrapped up in other people that we've forgotten how to live and enjoy our lives.

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People, May, Forgotten

Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, p.113, Hazelden Publishing

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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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Heart, Broken

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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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Giving Up, Growing Up, Crazy

"Treating Codependence: Q&A With Author Melody Beattie". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 14, 2011.

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...Help me let go of my need to stay immersed in negativity. I can change the energy in myself and my environment from negative to positive. I will affirm the good until it sinks in and feels real. I will also strive to find one quality that I like about someone else who's important to me, and I will take the risk of telling him or her that.

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Change, Letting Go, Real

Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

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We call it keeping up with the Joneses. They buy a boat and we buy a bigger one. They get a new TV and we get a big screen. They start a business and we start planning our articles of incorporation and the first stock release. And while we're so busy keeping up, we ignore our soul, the inner voice, that's telling us that it really wants to teach children to read. While it helps to identify with each other, we're not the same. So why compare ourselves on the basis of material things? Are you walking a path with heart in your own life, regardless of what others have?

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Children, Heart, Voice

Melody Beattie (2009). “More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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A man went to Istanbul, his first visit there. On his way to a business meeting, this man lost his way. He began raging at himself for getting lost, until a realization allowed him to transcend his ire. "How can I be lost? I've never been here before?" pp 104-105

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Men, Istanbul, Realization

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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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Children, Heart, Courageous

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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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Mother, Alzheimer's, Years

Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 14, 2011.

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Today, I will focus on having a good relationship with myself.

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Relationship, Good Relationship, Focus

Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, p.301, Hazelden Publishing

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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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Caring, People, Answers

Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, p.304, Hazelden Publishing

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Panic, not the task, is the enemy.

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Enemy, Tasks, Panic

Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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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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Thinking, People, Found

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Like it or not, i was already learning that in the worst and darkest time, I would find specks of light, moments of joy. What I didn't want to learn was the other, harsher lesson - that in life's brightest moments there would also be unbearable pain. p 87

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Pain, Light, Joy

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According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is right in the heart of this spiritual-creative belt of energy.

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Spiritual, Heart, Creative

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