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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.
Author Biography
Beattie was a struggling single parent of two children and freelance author and journalist cranking out stories for a small-town daily newspaper in 1986 when she came up with a book idea. She wanted to write a book about what happens to people when they love someone who is addicted to alcohol and other drugs. Twenty publishers turned down Beattie's book proposal. Hazelden, however, a treatment center and recovery publisher based in Minnesota, saw a need for the book. The publisher understood how families of alcoholics suffer and believed Beattie's book idea would help people. Beattie marched to the welfare department, asked for enough financial help to make it through the three months it would take her to write the book, then locked herself in a basement office and cranked out Codependent No More. Codependent No More has now sold over 4 million copies. Beattie has since written nine more books, five for major publishing houses. She relocated from Minnesota to California, and she has long-since paid back the welfare department. Beattie has appeared in the pages of Newsweek and People and has been a regular guest on Geraldo and Oprah.
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