"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 Technology Community Contact.

CoDA World Website: http://www.coda.org.

Announcements:

  • Next Speaker's Meeting is Saturday, May 4, 2013.  See the flier below for details!
  • Follow us on Twitter - @CodaOmaha!!
  • 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.
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Are you a therapist or counseling professional? Please mention CoDA to your patients as you see fit! Download and print the letter below for more information.

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Meditation

I can change only myself, but sometimes that is enough.
-- Ruth Humlecker

Happiness is more fleeting for some of us than for others.  We may ponder this notion but fail to grasp the reason.  However, careful attention to how "the happy ones" go through life will enlighten us.  We will not how seldom they complain about others' actions.  We will discover their willingness to accept others as they are.  We will see that their attention is generally on the positive aspects of people and circumstances rather than the negative.

We can join the parade of "happy ones" by letting go of our need to change people and situations that disturb us.  Even when we are certain other people are wrong, we can let go of controlling them.  Doing this means changing ourselves, of course.  But this is the one thing in life we do have control over.

I will change myself if I think something needs changing today.

You are reading from the book: A Woman's Spirit  by Karen Casey


Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
--Herbert Otto

The rewards of our new life are apparent to us because of how we feel, and apparent to others by what they can see. Many of us had reached our bottom point, and we felt there was no risk in trying a program of recovery. Yet, we still had some distorted security in our harmful ways of relating to others or in our addictions. Letting go was an experiment. This program gives us guidelines for experimenting with our life for growth, and we continue growing every day.

Some of our benefits are increased confidence and self-respect, more intimacy with our partner, better friendships, and better physical health. We feel these changes in ourselves, and we see them in the other men and women in this program.

Today, I am grateful for the rewards in my life from this experiment in recovery.

You are reading from the book:   Touchstones by Anonymous 
 
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