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Express your power gently
Melody Beattie writes: Express your power naturally and as gently as you can. When I started learning what it meant to take care of myself and to own my power, I talked loudly, spoke up, and yelled in...
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Into the great unknown…
Melody Beattie writes: “When I go into the Unknown. I immediately start making lists,” one man said. We each respond differently to loss, letting go. and the Unknown. We may try to fill up the vacuum...
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Affirmations
Melody Beattie writes: One of our choices in recovery is choosing what we want to think – using our mental energy positively. Positive mental energy, positive thinking, does not mean we think...
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Laying the Foundation
Melody Beattie writes: The groundwork has been laid. Do you not see that? Don’t you understand that all you have gone through was for a purpose? There was a reason, a good reason, for the waiting, the...
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Facing fear…
Melody Beattie writes: “How do you face fear?” a woman asked. “I suggest doing one thing each week that scares you,” I said, even though Eleanor Roosevelt said to do one thing each day that scares you....
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So that’s how it goes…
Melody Beattie has a loooong post on New Year‘s mindfulness. Here’s an excerpt: I began to list the qualities or skills I applied that helped me go from loser to a winner at something I knew absolutely...
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Standing Up for Ourselves
Melody Beattie writes: “We learn some behaviors have self-defeating consequences, while others have beneficial consequences. We learn we have choices” Beyond Codependency It is so easy to come to the...
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Letting go in love…
Melody Beattie writes: When people with a compulsive disorder do whatever it is they are compelled to do, they are not saying they don’t love you – they are saying they don’t love themselves....
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Recovery
Melody Beattie writes: Recovery is not about being right; it’s about allowing ourselves to be who we are and accepting others as they are. That concept can be difficult for many of us if we have lived...
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Self-acceptance…
Melody Beattie writes: Self-acceptance is a more humble term than self-esteem or self-love. Self-love has tones of narcissism—me first and to heck with you. Self-esteem rings of pride—holding...
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You are not a victim
It has been a long time since I quoted Melody Beattie: You are not a victim. How deeply ingrained our self-image as a victim can be! How habitual our feelings of misery and helplessness! Victimization...
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