We each can foster loving and kind relationships through…

“Once they have been affected---once "it" sets in---codependency takes on a life of its own. It is similar to catching pneumonia or picking up…

— Melody Beattie

“1. We fear people because they can expose and humiliate us. 2. We fear people because they can reject, ridicule, or despise us. 3.…

— Edward T. Welch

“Acknowledgment remained absent long-term. She would push to the point of sickness through drinking and activities that made recovery more difficult. She would refuse…

— Neal Winsomer

“Like all sex and love addicts, I can feel someone’s attention and attraction from a hundred yards away—hell, I can feel them from the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“People that can’t control their behavior have a problem with discipline. But lack of discipline over the body originates in a restless mind. The…

— Robin Sacredfire

“I HOLD If I could have had him, I could have let him go. But without the having there was nothing— so to the…

— Coco J. Ginger

When you give another person the power to define you, then you also give them the power to control you.

— Anonymous

“It was difficult to know where to find comfort, especially since I could no longer medicate myself with my oldest and deepest fantasy: that…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Because empaths can see the world through their partner’s point of view, they frequently tend to completely mesh with the viewpoints of their abusers.…

— Aletheia Luna

“If you live your life to please everyone else, you will continue to feel frustrated and powerless. This is because what others want may…

— Beverly Engel

“Stepping out of other people’s drama cycles was scary, weird, and difficult for me at first. I felt guilty for keeping the focus on…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“The psyche cannot tolerate a vacuum of love. In the severely abused or deprived child, pain, dis-ease, and violance rush in to fill the…

— Sam Keen

“There's always something in it for the person who is allowing to be taken advantage of." Psychotherapist David in Type 1 Sociopath”

— P.A. Speers

“If I am this capable of loving an alcoholic so much, imagine how awesome I could be at loving myself.”

— Grace W. Wroldson

“sometimes i love you means i want to love you sometimes i love you means i’ll stay a little while longer sometimes i love…

— Rupi Kaur