“I’d spent two years trying to get into a relationship, and the next five trapped, clawing my way out. I obsessed until my head ached. Literally, it hurt. I didn’t know what feelings were. Whenever I said I felt something, people said, ‘Don’t feel that!”
from The New Codependency:
Help and Guidance for Today’s Generation
by Melody Beattie
Have you ever doubted your own feelings? Melody Beattie describes so well how we can be in situations that cause all sorts of reactions within us but people tell us not to feel what we are feeling! Don’t let that doubt about how you feel creep in. Examine your feelings. Feel your feelings. Get the learnings from them and then let them go. They are there for your personal growth. Don’t let others tell you not to feel what you feel!
Rosemary


BOOK LIGHTS: from “Eat, Pray, Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert
September 8, 2010 — Rosemaryfrom Eat, Pray, Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert
‘The hub of calmness – that’s your heart.’ Do you meditate? Journal? Sit sometimes and calm your thoughts? It is in this place of stillness that you will find the Self of Self Love. I love this model of the Universe as a spinning engine. You want to avoid the outer edges where the craziness is. Here is where the messages bombard you and they have nothing to do with who you are at your center. Find a way to get centered and you will learn to quiet those other voices.
Rosemary
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