Breaking The Chain of Co-Dependence

Steven Barnes
5 min readFeb 20, 2020

Saw a post today from someone who almost died from congestive heart failure and believes they can die from excess stress. They then went on to detail the people causing massive life stress, hammering them, and I can only pray that they take this to heart.

  1. The first principle is to love yourself, and that means caring enough to take care of yourself BEFORE you take care of anyone else. In case of loss of cabin pressure, put your mask on FIRST. If you can’t swim, don’t jump into the water to save strangers of ANYONE you aren’t willing to die with.

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Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes is a NY Times bestselling author, ecstatic husband and father, and holder of black belts in three martial arts. www.lifewritingpodcast.com.