Relax, you're on a journey of discovery. Let life reveal itself to you. — Melody Beattie Discovery Copy Share Image
“We don’t have to be so afraid of people. They are just people like us.” — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart. — Melody Beattie Heart Copy Share Image
Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do… — Melody Beattie Control Copy Share Image
Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other peoples best interests. — Melody Beattie Best interests Copy Share Image
Real power comes when we stop holding others responsible for our pain, and we take responsibility for all our feelings. — Melody Beattie Feelings Copy Share Image
Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay. — Melody Beattie Codependent Copy Share Image
Furthermore, worrying about people and problems doesn't help. It doesn't solve problems, it doesn't help other people, and it doesn't help us.… — Melody Beattie Anxiety Copy Share Image
There are almost as many definitions of co-dependency as there are experiences that represent it. — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
We can say what we need to say. We can gently, but assertively, speak our mind. We do not need to be… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is right in… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
Codependents are reactionaries. They overreact. They under-react. But rarely do they act. They react to the problems, pains, lives, and behaviors of… — Melody Beattie Behavior Copy Share Image
Life is always moving, changing, shifting into its next shape. The movement is natural. It is how we evolve. Let the shifts… — Melody Beattie Always moving Copy Share Image
Seek healing, a refilling of energy and spirit, as soon as you see that you need it. You don't have to push… — Melody Beattie Body Copy Share Image
I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there for her… — Melody Beattie Alzheimer Copy Share Image
...Help me let go of my need to stay immersed in negativity. I can change the energy in myself and my environment… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
There is honor in all work, in all tasks, but take it one step further. Make what you do a labor of… — Melody Beattie Change the world Copy Share Image
Let go of your expectations. The universe will do what it will. Sometimes your dreams will come true. Sometimes they won't. Sometimes… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
Boundaries emerge from deep within. They are connected to letting go of guilt and shame, and to changing our beliefs about what… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
We don't want to give the controls to someone else; we want those reins ourselves. We want to get our way. And… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
there are no knights on white horses, no magical grandmothers in the sky watching, waiting to rescue us. Teachers may come our… — Melody Beattie Care Copy Share Image
“or to what we hope they are. The more we work through our family of origin issues, the less we will find… — Melody Beattie Family Copy Share Image
“We don’t have to take things so personally. We take things to heart that we have no business taking to heart. For… — Melody Beattie Alcoholic Copy Share Image
We can stop picking on ourselves for picking on ourselvesWe can cherish ourselves and our lives. We can nuture ourselves and love… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
“recovery from codependency is exciting. It is liberating. It lets us be who we are. It lets other people be who they… — Melody Beattie Healing Copy Share Image
Feel what you feel, know what you know, and set your relatives free to do the same. — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
