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Codependency
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My mind was spinning around this inflaming and infuriating thought: Why can’t I be a normal person who does normal things like normal people?
That’s when I heard Rayya’s voice.
“Because you aren’t normal, babe,” she said. “You’re an addict. And addicts can’t do normal things like normal people.
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― All the Way to the River
― All the Way to the River
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The psyche cannot tolerate a vacuum of love. In the severely abused or deprived child, pain, dis-ease, and violance rush in to fill the void. In the average person in our culture, who has been only "normally" deprived of touch, anxiety and an insatiable hunger for posessions replace the missing eros. The child lacking a sense of welcome, joyous belonging, gratuitous security, will learn to hoard the limited supply of affection. According to the law of psychic compensation, not being held leads t
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― The Passionate Life: Stages of Loving
― The Passionate Life: Stages of Loving
The Wisdom of the Twelve Steps is a series of workbooks – one for each step – de-signed to assis…more
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All 16 and older are welcome. This book club focuses on books with a mental health lean. These b…more
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