Melody Beattie

What is detachment? Probably the first thing we need to learn to do at the beginning of our recovery journey and every day when we wake up. I am a Gemini. I get really obsessive. I like to attach. I attach to ideas. I'm overly loyal. I will hang on to people, places, and things long after they've lost their usefulness.

What is detachment? Probably the first thing we need to learn to do at the beginning of our recovery journey and every day when we wake up. I am a Gemini. I get really obsessive. I like to attach. I attach to ideas. I'm overly loyal. I will hang on to people, places, and things long after they've lost their usefulness.

And so it's like trying to keep up with the way we attach fast enough to free ourselves so that we can live our lives. That is a worthwhile goal. And it's not easy.

And so it's like trying to keep up with the way we attach fast enough to free ourselves so that we can live our lives. That is a worthwhile goal. And it's not easy.

And so it's like trying to keep up with the way we attach fast enough to free ourselves so that we can live our lives. That is a worthwhile goal. And it's not easy.

And I want to say something else too, that the detachment didn't just occur when I had that realization, when I was on the phone, because what I did is I ended up telling him, you know, you got yourself to Vegas. If you want to get home, you'll get yourself home. I'm putting on a party. I'll see you later. That wasn't the moment I detached.

And I want to say something else too, that the detachment didn't just occur when I had that realization, when I was on the phone, because what I did is I ended up telling him, you know, you got yourself to Vegas. If you want to get home, you'll get yourself home. I'm putting on a party. I'll see you later. That wasn't the moment I detached.

And I want to say something else too, that the detachment didn't just occur when I had that realization, when I was on the phone, because what I did is I ended up telling him, you know, you got yourself to Vegas. If you want to get home, you'll get yourself home. I'm putting on a party. I'll see you later. That wasn't the moment I detached.

I detached in the three years incrementally that occurred and the experiences I went through that occurred before that. I mean, it's a process and those aren't just words. Everything is a process in life and we can trust our process. We don't have to invalidate it. We don't have to call ourselves names, although it's sometimes fun to rag on ourselves, isn't it?

I detached in the three years incrementally that occurred and the experiences I went through that occurred before that. I mean, it's a process and those aren't just words. Everything is a process in life and we can trust our process. We don't have to invalidate it. We don't have to call ourselves names, although it's sometimes fun to rag on ourselves, isn't it?

I detached in the three years incrementally that occurred and the experiences I went through that occurred before that. I mean, it's a process and those aren't just words. Everything is a process in life and we can trust our process. We don't have to invalidate it. We don't have to call ourselves names, although it's sometimes fun to rag on ourselves, isn't it?

The beginnings and endings aren't as clear as they may appear to be.

The beginnings and endings aren't as clear as they may appear to be.

The beginnings and endings aren't as clear as they may appear to be.

Little by slowly, little by slowly. And then in spring we go out and we go, oh, my garden's grown. And we need to do that with ourselves too. We need to also tell ourselves about the progress we've made. Being codependent isn't like, I can get a little ashamed of it. And I wrote the book. It's not a bad thing. It's a human thing. It's a human thing people do. Yeah.

Little by slowly, little by slowly. And then in spring we go out and we go, oh, my garden's grown. And we need to do that with ourselves too. We need to also tell ourselves about the progress we've made. Being codependent isn't like, I can get a little ashamed of it. And I wrote the book. It's not a bad thing. It's a human thing. It's a human thing people do. Yeah.

Little by slowly, little by slowly. And then in spring we go out and we go, oh, my garden's grown. And we need to do that with ourselves too. We need to also tell ourselves about the progress we've made. Being codependent isn't like, I can get a little ashamed of it. And I wrote the book. It's not a bad thing. It's a human thing. It's a human thing people do. Yeah.

We call it a dysfunction, but we call everything a dysfunction now, don't we?

We call it a dysfunction, but we call everything a dysfunction now, don't we?

We call it a dysfunction, but we call everything a dysfunction now, don't we?