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- Does anyone else live on the east coast USA where the giant snow storm has just hit. 2016 Winter Storm Jonas.I shoveled my snow and it piled up again, and next day today Saturday my neighbor used a tractor to plow their road and plowed my driveway...
- I remember was I was very young and found out that Santa Claus was a lie and it struck me hard that I was betrayed by everyone around me that I trusted.This is one of my oldest (or youngest) memories which remain very distinct and clear.I looked up...
- This is a fascinating article in the Huffington Post, June 20, 2015Link here = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html QUOTE: "So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection."I find...
- I just saw this link which made a statement which is so enlightening to me and about codependency that I just feel that I have to share it here."How come your family knows how to push your buttons? Because they installed them"Source: The Easiest...
- Lately I have decided that I need to stop calling myself as a vegetarian because I really do not like and do not eat vegetables.The thing is that I only do not eat any animals, as in no animal meat, but not vegetables either.I eat a lot of cheese...
- I get emails from NAMI and they are trying to stop the negative stigma of mental illness.My understanding is that the stigma is close to the same as hateful name calling.Codependency is not really a mental illness even though it is a severe...
- Theodore Roosevelt said this:It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in...
- I get the newsletter from "The Meadows every month, and I just got this month's today dated July 31, 2012, and The Meadows said this:" LIMITED TIME ONLY OFFER! "" Opportunity knocks today for patients that are in need of quality trauma and addiction...
- A terrible thing which many people fail to understand is that a codependent person learned the codependency from their abuser, and if their codependency is not properly treated then the codependent person will grow into the abuser and pass the...
- I know not to call people as stupid or as ugly or even slight them as poor but I do so here only to drive in or emphasize the point of this subject.My understanding of self-esteem is that it is easier to have the real and healthy self-esteem if one...
- See my new avatar?And I really am playful and mischievous so DtM might be the avatar for the Booky?or not?
- Today I drove a friend to buy some fishing stuff at a sporting store, and of course that nasty place was crammed full of nasty stuff used only for killing and trapping all kinds of innocent animals and it was disgusting, but I was there to carry my...
- I was recently assisting an elderly friend with his new computer and discovered that bifocal glasses do not work with a head-high computer screen.The bifocals works when one is looking down to the keyboard but not when reading straight across from...
- I just want to say that for me I confess that I truly love the wild and extreme antics and tactics of the pro-vegetarian fanatics and radicals.Every time I hear some new News reports of a PETA protest, or things like the infamous crying elephant in...
- My opinion is unOrthodox but I want to share it to see what others might say about it.My understanding is that the 12 Steps were designed for Alcoholics and so a drunk needs to make amends to those they harmed while codependents need to make amends...