As we approach the end of another year, here are some good ways to incorporate self-love into the year to come… –from Gratitude – The Life Blog 1. Take care of your health The very step in showing compassion to yourself is to take care of your health, in little and big ways. We tendContinue reading “How to show compassion to yourself”
Category Archives: recovery stories
Holiday Meetings Link
Need a meeting over the holidays? CoDA World has online meetings available. Check out the schedule here… https://www.codependents.org/codathon.html
Healing Through Awareness: Managing Triggers Effectively
100 % of the time, when I am triggered by a person, place or thing, it is because of me. The source of the trigger lies within me. ~ Terri Cole Many of us talk in terms of “being triggered”. Often we want to avoid being triggered or triggering someone else. I have learned overContinue reading “Healing Through Awareness: Managing Triggers Effectively”
Self-Care Tips: Recognizing HALT to Improve Your Life
This week, I ignored the God given gift of my intuition and paid the price… literally. I drove angry, got pulled over and ticketed for speeding. Higher Power, help me slow down and become more self-aware. The acronym HALT means never get too Hungry, too Angry, too Lonely, or too Tired. Each of these conditionsContinue reading “Self-Care Tips: Recognizing HALT to Improve Your Life”
My recovery story
By Anna H My relationship with my partner had become strained in the past week. In our attempts to try to communicate with each other about our own needs, we seemed to be triggering each other, and it felt like neither of us was doing a good job of really hearing each other, because ourContinue reading “My recovery story”
Meditation
The upcoming online workshop, Journey to Healing, Creating Safety Within will include information on the tool of meditation… read more below on how the presenter came to a deeper connection with her inner world and her Higher Power through meditation. If you want to experience more on this topic, sign up now for the MarchContinue reading “Meditation”
A Recovery Dream
by Anonymous MinnCoDA Member “My inner teenager had a dream…”The setting was a dream mix of the caretaker’s house at camp and the current Bass Lake house. There was a lot of beige carpet, and it was mostly daytime with that Minnesota silver daylight. Teenage me was so nervous, alarmed, and angry. She was aContinue reading “A Recovery Dream”
Step 11
Hmmmm… Why a picture of a plug in an outlet? Keep reading. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that out. Step 11 In Step 3 we made a decision to turnContinue reading “Step 11”
Step 9-Amends Are Changes Not Apologies
“Made direct amends to such people, wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.” Step 9 Many people find this step… challenging. Fortunately, in CoDA, we have a method for making amends. It helped me to hear someone say at a meeting, “you don’t apologize to the Constitution, you amend it”.Continue reading “Step 9-Amends Are Changes Not Apologies”
Breaking the barrier of perfectionism
I’m a double winner of sorts…recovering co-dependent and a recovering perfectionist.
Codependents often are other-focused. We often care too much about what others think about us. We believe the lie that our value comes from outside ourselves so it’s important to us that we appear perfect.