“Like all sex and love addicts, I can feel someone’s attention and attraction from a hundred yards away—hell, I can feel them… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“If you ever feel the person in your life needs rescuing, particularly from him or herself - beware. Codependency is rearing its… — David Stafford Copy Share Image
“If I am this capable of loving an alcoholic so much, imagine how awesome I could be at loving myself.” — Grace W. Wroldson Copy Share Image
“If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Contacting and living from our True Self is the central task of personal growth.” — Charles Whitfield Copy Share Image
“As empaths, we are not here to be sponges or enablers. We are here to be helpers, guides, and supporters.” — Aletheia Luna Copy Share Image
“I HOLD If I could have had him, I could have let him go. But without the having there was nothing— so… — Coco J. Ginger Copy Share Image
When you give another person the power to define you, then you also give them the power to control you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Acknowledgment remained absent long-term. She would push to the point of sickness through drinking and activities that made recovery more difficult. She… — Neal Winsomer Copy Share Image
“It was difficult to know where to find comfort, especially since I could no longer medicate myself with my oldest and deepest… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“People often talk about crawling into the rooms of recovery on their knees, but when I turned to twelve-step for the second… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“sometimes i love you means i want to love you sometimes i love you means i’ll stay a little while longer sometimes… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“If you live your life to please everyone else, you will continue to feel frustrated and powerless. This is because what others… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
“I read today that all addiction is a form of misplaced worship. I get that. And I’ve certainly done that. I’ve mistaken… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“This imbalance causes resentments within the over-responsible and dependency with the irresponsible person and this dynamic becomes the destructive life-pattern not conducive… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Many of us live in denial of who we truly are because we fear losing someone or something-and there are times that… — Dennis Merritt Jones Copy Share Image
“Because empaths can see the world through their partner’s point of view, they frequently tend to completely mesh with the viewpoints of… — Aletheia Luna Copy Share Image
“Once they have been affected---once "it" sets in---codependency takes on a life of its own. It is similar to catching pneumonia or… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
“1. We fear people because they can expose and humiliate us. 2. We fear people because they can reject, ridicule, or despise… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
“Those highs, even if they were fake and we knew that they wouldn't last forever, felt so real when we were in… — Melissa Broder Copy Share Image
“Stepping out of other people’s drama cycles was scary, weird, and difficult for me at first. I felt guilty for keeping the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“My own sober dating plan is approximately three pages long, and it includes such items as “NO WEEKLONG FIRST DATES.” My plan… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“People that can’t control their behavior have a problem with discipline. But lack of discipline over the body originates in a restless… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“The psyche cannot tolerate a vacuum of love. In the severely abused or deprived child, pain, dis-ease, and violance rush in to… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“As I listened to the other addicts share their life experiences, I began to hear the story of my own life, told… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“We Are Lovable Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
“It wasn't so much about breaking free of him, as it was about breaking free of me.” — Grace W. Wroldson Copy Share Image
“...I'm constantly agitated, restless - I work moments like worry beads until I see your face...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“I was dating the same man over and over again, expecting a different relationship. Where's the sanity in that!?” — Grace W. Wroldson Copy Share Image
“We each can foster loving and kind relationships through meditation and repeating mantras.” — Eknath Easwaren Copy Share Image
“My ultimate goal in recovery is not to end up in a healthy relationship with the perfect partner, my ultimate goal in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“You are not your yes. You are not your productivity. You are not your usefulness to others. You are a human being… — Vivek Naik Copy Share Image
“My mind was spinning around this inflaming and infuriating thought: Why can’t I be a normal person who does normal things like… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The truth is, we tend to train people how we want to be treated. If others know you have wishy-washy boundaries then… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“You’re what gives me strength. If I am what centers you, Nikki, then you are what anchors me. Every time I touch… — J. Kenner Copy Share Image
“There is a prayer that we recite in those rooms that I love very much. It simply says, “Dear God—thank you for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“It was becoming evident to me that addiction is addiction is addiction—that all the ways in which people binge, hoard, numb, act… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Ever since people first existed, they have been doing all the things we label "codependent." They have worried themselves sick about other… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
