"Co-Dependents Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women whose common purpose is to develop healthy relationships. The only requirement for membership is a desire for healthy and fulfilling relationships. We rely on the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions for knowledge and wisdom. These are the principles of our program and guides to developing honest and fulfilling relationships. Through applying the Twelve Steps and principles in CoDA to our daily life and relationships, both present and past, we can experience a new freedom from our self-defeating lifestyles and realize a new joy, acceptance and serenity in our lives." - CoDA Preamble

The CoDA Omaha Mailing List:
Consist of periodic emails detailing CoDA events, announcements and inspiration. If you would like your name added to the mailing list, send your email address to Sarah T.

CoDA National Website: http://www.codependents.org.

Announcements:

  • The Free Concert in the Park is this Friday night! See the Events page for details!!
  • Please donate as you can to the 7th Tradition when the basket is passed at your meetings. CoDA needs your support in order to continue providing the resources that we do.
  • Visit the Events page for a schedule of upcoming activities!

Weekly Musings for the week of June 22, 2009

For all the sadness of closure, there is a new and joyful unfolding in the process of becoming.
--Mary Casey

We must let go of people, places, memories, and move on to new experiences. The doors of the past must be closed before we can enter those that are opening to us today. However, no experience is gone forever. All of our experiences are threaded together, each one contributing to the events that claim our attention now.

Recovery has offered us a chance to be aware of our process of becoming. With each day, each experience, each new understanding, we are advancing along the path of personal growth. Let us remember that each of us has a particular path, like no other. Thus, our experiences are ours alone. We need not envy what comes to someone else.

Life is unfolding for us. The pain of the present may be necessary for the pleasure of tomorrow. We can accept the unfolding. Our inner selves have a goal; experiences of the past must be left in the past; experiences at hand will lead us to our destination today.

I am moving and changing and growing, at the right pace. The process can be trusted. What is right for me will come to me. I will let the joy of becoming warm me. 
-from Each Day a New Beginning, by Karen Casey