When We Don't Ask For What We

It's Hard To Give Up The Self-esteem Connected To Being Codependent And Appearing 'right,' Which Is Probably A Survival Behavior Learned From Growing Up In A Crazy Family. It Feels Like You Will Actually Disappear.

Worrying, Obsessing, And Controlling Are Illusions. They Are Tricks We Play On Ourselves.

We Don't Just Get Our Choice; We Get The Consequence That Choice Creates.

Speak Your Truth. Listen When Others Speak Theirs, Too. When You Let Go Of Fear, You Will Learn To Love Others, And You Will Let Them Love You. Do Not Be Afraid Of Dying. But Do Not Be Afraid To Live. Ask Yourself What That Means. Open Your Heart To Love, For That Is Why You Are Here. And Know That You Are, And Always Have Been One With Me And All Who Live.

We Don't Want To Give The Controls To Someone Else; We Want Those Reins Ourselves. We Want To Get Our Way. And We Get Upset When Things Don't Work Out. . . . When We Try To Control Someone Else Or Events Beyond The Scope Of Our Power, We Lose. When We Learn To Discern The Difference Between What We Can Change And What We Can't, We Usually Have An Easier Time Expressing Our Power In Our Lives. Because We're Not Wasting All Our Energy Using Our Power To Change Things We Can't, We Have A Lot Of Energy Left Over To Live Our Lives.