Relationships require tending--and who better to turn to in those moments of need than Melody Beattie, bestselling author of Codependency No More and Beyond Codependency? Melding essays and meditations, this book offers Beattie's reflections on the joys and challenges that relationships present every day.
Distilling her compassionate insights on how best to nurture spiritual and emotional health, Beattie touches on questions of honesty and surrender, defensiveness and drama addiction, healthy communication and unhealthy tendencies. Her characteristically direct, unsentimental words give voice to the thoughts and feelings common to the men and women in recover--and point the way to healing and hope by creating opportunities for reflection, affirmation, and change.
In this follow-up to bestseller The Language of Letting Go, Melody Beattie integrates her own life experiences and fundamental recovery reflections in a unique m?lange of daily meditation and essays, written especially for people struggling with the issue of codependency.
?Melody Beattie is an American phenomenon. With her codependency concept, she connects with age-old quests for self-improvement and rebirth. These values, and the slogans that convey them, have reached the souls of millions of Americans?.Her messages inspire true believers. She has tapped into a preoccupation with addiction and alcohol, added a whiff of New Age mysticism and come up with a message that reaches Americans adrift in an atomistic society and often disillusioned with traditional psychotherapy.?
?Time Magazine