It’s Your Life—Live It!
“Well you never lost but you never won, cause you never fought and you never moved on… If you’re gonna save a life, baby it should be your own.” Keaton Simons, Beautiful Pain Sometimes we, as codependents, never fight for ourselves and our lives and sometimes we give-up the good fight too easily. There could be a variety of reasons for this. First off, active non-recovering codependents are way too busy trying to save the lives of others. And their underlying motto is “No time for my life! Everyone else comes first!” And this type of thinking is so engrained it’s hard to shake, even if you’ve been in recovery for a while. But many of us in recovery know that our lives have to come first, and yet we can still fail to move on. We’ll take giant leaps forward, but then we’ll stall. Suddenly, we aren’t willing to fight for our right to be happy any longer and we’re back on our pity pots. Or worse, we’re tempted to simply go back to all of the old comfortable cod...