Human emotions Quote by Melody Beattie

“Much has been written about codependency. All agree that it is about the loss of selfhood. Codependency is a condition wherein one has no…

— John Bradshaw

“Sometimes, the things we do to protect ourselves turn on us and hurt us. They become self-destructive. Many codependents are barely surviving, and most…

— Melody Beattie

“Codependency is a learned set of behaviors, thought processes, and habits. When combined together, they fit a very loose definition. All people exhibit these…

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

“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

Codependents are reactionaries. They overreact. They under-react. But rarely do they act. They react to the problems, pains, lives, and behaviors of others. They…

— Melody Beattie

“Wounded parents often unintentionally inflict pain and suffering on their children and these childhood wounds causes a laundry list of maladaptive behaviors commonly called…

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

“It isn’t so much life’s problems that challenge us but the emotional turbulence stirred up while trying to deal with them. People possessing the…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Happiness is a temporary recurring human experience.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We can experience an emotional hijack as a result of change, or we can self-regulate and catch ourselves before we head into an emotional…

— Shawn Kent Hayashi

The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature

— John Bowlby

“Misery develops in the insidious seams created by imprecision and faulty human thinking. The cure for unhappiness is finding joy by embracing human nature.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that…

— Martin Seligman