All our experiences are rich colors that make a full life. - Melody Beattie

The only person you can now or ever change is yourself. The only person that it is your business to control is yourself.

react is important here. However you approach codependency, however you define it, and from whatever frame of reference you choose to diagnose and treat it, codependency is primarily a reactionary process. Codependents are reactionaries. They overreact. They under-react. But rarely do they act. They react to the problems, pains,

Rest when you’re tired. Take a break when life stales. Take time to recharge your battery. Energy isn’t something you have — it’s something you are. To give and give and give, to put out without taking in, depletes your battery. It drains you, runs you down.