Basically everyone is codependent to some degree. If you don’t believe me, come to a CODA (Codependents Anonymous) meeting and you’ll find out.
These meetings are flipping amazing. The amount of self aware, real people there is basically 90%. If you wanna cut the bull crap from your life, just go to a CODA meeting.
I believe the only person you cannot be codependent on is Jesus Christ.
I have an app—it’s called “Letting Go,” and this is what it said for today:
Gratitude
We learn the magical lesson that making the most of what we have turns it into more.
— CODEPENDENT NO MORE
Say thank you, until you mean it.
Thank God, life, and the universe for everyone and everything sent your way.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. It can turn an existence into a real life, and disconnected situations into important and beneficial lessons. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Gratitude makes things right.
Gratitude turns negative energy into positive energy. There is no situation or circumstance so small or large that it is not susceptible to gratitude’s power. We can start with who we are and what we have today, apply gratitude, then let it work its magic.
Say thank you, until you mean it. If you say it long enough, you will believe it.
Today, I will shine the transforming light of gratitude on all the circumstances of my life.
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This was a joy for me to be reminded of first thing this morning. Why? Well…I’ll tell you why.
I’m way too…ugh…”dramatic” with my body. (That’s a nice way of saying accident prone.)
So, yesterday I fell out of bed because I couldn’t get comfortable and whenever that happens I like to sleep on the floor and this happened:
It’s the left photo—the right photo is how healed it has been since the last break. Basically…it’s shattered. Yep, a three foot fall did that.
They are going to put two titanium rods in the bone to stabilize it.
Part of me was wanting to scream…but then it was like this wiser part wanted and succeeded 50% of the time to be the wiser self.
When I got home, the Spirit told me to look in my purse. I took out my notebook for Dialectical Behavioral Therapy I’ve carried around with me to help me understand and get out of the codependency I felt with my body. (Aka, if you would just work right, I could be happy!!!! You friggin lump of clay!!!)
So, even though I tried to think positively in the hospital after seeing those pictures, I failed. BUT, then when I looked through my little handy DBT notebook, because I was led to the right information at the right time, I succeeded.
Just like I did in jail.
I’m realizing that you need to course correct towards the feeling of gratitude and Joy several times a day. Especially if you’re a victim. It’ll turn you into a victor, and instead of being buried by your problems, they will exalt you into a higher sphere.
Healing with Christ 