I made a decision that day. I was here, I was me, and I was enough in spite of my past, my present, my future, my weaknesses, my foibles, my mistakes, and my humanness.
We’re good, and we’re good enough. Sometimes we make big mistakes; sometimes we make little mistakes. But the mistake is what we do, not who we are. We have a right to be, to be here, and be who we are. If we’re not certain who we are, we have a right to make that exciting discovery. And we don’t ever have to let shame tell us any differently.
–Melody Beattie, Beyond Codependency, p. 111