Mellanie Tara
Cover of the guidesheet, When You Leave Yourself to Keep the Connection
A free guidesheet

When you leave yourself to keep the connection.

For the woman who has spent years being there for everyone else, and is learning that being there for herself matters too. Sixteen pages on codependence, self-abandonment, and the way back.

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What is inside

Nine short pieces, and a question to carry.

This is a reflection guide, not a worksheet to complete. Read it in one sitting or a page at a time.

The noticing

Where the pattern was learned

Why paying close attention to other people was once a sensible thing to do, and how it becomes self-abandonment later. The moment to catch it: am I staying connected to myself right now, or leaving myself to stay connected to someone else?

The practice

Three questions, and a body pause

What am I feeling. What do I need. What am I about to do, and why. Then a short physical practice for the moments when thinking your way out is not working, and a set of plain sentences for saying the difficult thing.

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The whole guide is here, free, with nothing to fill in first. Open it now, or save it somewhere you will find it again on a harder day.

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A line from the last page

This is a spiral, not a straight line.

Self-abandonment does not disappear because you finally learn to set perfect boundaries. It changes through hundreds of small moments in which you pause, listen inwardly, and choose not to betray what you know.

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