if you go, i go
sometimes stuff seems like a pretty good idea at the time and then you feel really foolish about it the next day.
series of ups and downs = life
"Codependence is about giving power to external or outer forces (including other people) over our self-esteem - over how we feel about ourself. That is dysfunctional - it does not work. What we are striving for is to learn to be Interdependent - to make allys, form partnerships - not make someone or something outside of us (i.e. our career, money, etc.), or external to our being, our higher power that determines if we have self-worth.
Codependence is also a disease of reversed focus - it is about focusing outside of ourselves for self-definition and self-worth. That sets us up to be a victim. We have worth because we are spiritual beings not because of how much money or success we have - or how we look or how smart we are. When self-worth is dertermined by looking outside it means we have to look down on someone else to feel good about ourselves - this is the cause of bigotry, racism, class structure, and Jerry Springer."
~Robert Burney
series of ups and downs = life
"Codependence is about giving power to external or outer forces (including other people) over our self-esteem - over how we feel about ourself. That is dysfunctional - it does not work. What we are striving for is to learn to be Interdependent - to make allys, form partnerships - not make someone or something outside of us (i.e. our career, money, etc.), or external to our being, our higher power that determines if we have self-worth.
Codependence is also a disease of reversed focus - it is about focusing outside of ourselves for self-definition and self-worth. That sets us up to be a victim. We have worth because we are spiritual beings not because of how much money or success we have - or how we look or how smart we are. When self-worth is dertermined by looking outside it means we have to look down on someone else to feel good about ourselves - this is the cause of bigotry, racism, class structure, and Jerry Springer."
~Robert Burney