Some days, we may do particularly well.\u00c2\u00a0 We may assertively refuse someone’s invitation to be codependent.\u00c2\u00a0 We may deal well with a particular conflict or feeling.\u00c2\u00a0 We may have a few moments of intimacy or closeness.\u00c2\u00a0 We may buy ourselves something special, then not wreck it by telling ourselves we don’t deserve it.<\/p>\n
Some days, we may have to look more closely to notice what we did.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe we took time out to rest when we were tired.\u00c2\u00a0 We said The Serenity Prayer during a trying moment.\u00c2\u00a0 Things got crazy and we detached when we noticed ourselves getting hooked in.<\/p>\n
On our worst days, we still look for something we’ve done toward recovery.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes the best we can do is feel good about what we did not do.\u00c2\u00a0 We pat ourselves on the back because we didn’t run to the nearest bar, drag home an alcoholic, and fall in love with him or her.\u00c2\u00a0 For some of us, that’s real progress and not to be overlooked on the gray days.<\/p>\n
All the days count.\u00c2\u00a0 Believe in recovery.\u00c2\u00a0 Our lives and experiences can be different and better.\u00c2\u00a0 The process of getting better is happening right now, this moment, in our lives.<\/p>\n
— Melody Beattie, Beyond Codependency, <\/em>p. 236-237<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some days, we may do particularly well.\u00c2\u00a0 We may assertively refuse someone’s invitation to be codependent.\u00c2\u00a0 We may deal well with a particular conflict or feeling.\u00c2\u00a0 We may have a few moments of intimacy or closeness.\u00c2\u00a0 We may buy ourselves something special, then not wreck it by telling ourselves we don’t deserve it. Some days, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}