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Many of us, so confident about our ability to take care of others, doubt our inherent strength to care for ourselves. We may have come to believe, from our past or present circumstances, that we need to take care of others and we need others to take care of us. This is the ultimate codependent belief.No matter where this self-defeating belief was born, we can release it and replace it with a better one, a healthier one, a more accurate one.We can take care of ourselves -- whether we are in or out of a relationship. Everything we need will be provided. We will have loved ones, friends, and our Higher Power to help.Knowing that we can take care of ourselves doesn't mean we won't have feelings of fear, discomfort, doubt, anger, and fragility at times. It means we practice "courageous vulnerability," as Colette Dowling called it in Cinderella Complex. We may feel scared, but we do it anyway.Today, God, help me know how I can take care of myself.
Melody Beattie ©

God is present in all things, even those events and circumstances that seem terrible. Within any circumstance is the seed that can bear the fruit of the greater good, if we are willing to ask God to lead us in bringing forth that good.Mary Manin Morrissey

AA Thought of the Day / We found the Great Reality deep down within us. In the last analysis it is only there that God may be found... / AA, p. 55

The Universe is always sending us messages. But the messengers are not always wearing wings, or dressed in holy robes, as a matter of fact, they usually are not wearing wings or holy vestments. Sometimes they are wearing rags and are panhandling on the corner. Sometimes the messengers have an attitude and are a "royal pain". Sometimes they are your next door neighbor. Sometimes they are the person you like best or like least... sometimes it is that thing that REALLY aggravates you... The spiritual guidance is all around us. Are we listening?Marie T. Russell

Sometimes you may not feel that you have options, or you may believe that the other person or the situation has power and you have none. This is rarely true, and continuing to think that way may shut you off from your wise inner guidance attempting to offer you solutions. Answers and options will come to your mind and heart. Allow yourself to be open to the potential for change.
Lynn RobinsonBe not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim fast, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have compassion for yourself and others. Everyone is doing the best they can based on their life experiences. Everyone is learning and growing, and so are you.Doc Childre and Sara Paddison

We must begin to cultivate the compassion that allows the moment to be as it is...Stephen Levine