Quotes about Healing

I don't think love has to hurt as much as it did in the past. I don't think we have to allow love to hurt us as much as it has. We certainly don't have to let it destroy us.

Don't give up hope. It took many of us twenty years or more to acquire these protective behaviors we umbrella with the word codependency. It may take as much time as that to let go of them.

Today, God, help me to know that it is okay to allow myself to be human. Help me not to feel guilty or punish myself when I need to "fall apart.

Even recovery brings losses, more changes we must struggle to accept.

We go back . . . and back . . . and back . . . until we discover the exuberant, unencumbered, delightful and lovable child that was, and still is, in us. And once we find it, we love and cherish it, and never, never let it go.

Do you know you have a right to become as healthy as you want, no matter what your family does or doesn't do? Do you know you can love

Surrender to love, without allowing people to control us or keep us from caring for ourselves. Start by surrendering to love for yourself.

We don't have to punish ourselves by feeling guilty to prove to God or anyone else how much we care.7 We need to forgive ourselves. Take the Fourth and Fifth Steps (see the chapter on working a Twelve Step program); talk to a clergy person; talk to God; make amends; and then be done with it.

We frequently react to people who are destroying themselves; we react by learning to destroy ourselves.

Even God cannot change the past. —Agathon

Forgiveness is wonderful. It wipes the slate clean. It clears up guilt. It brings peace and harmony

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