About the Author

Melody Beattie is the author of numerous books about personal growth and relationships, drawing on the wisdom of Twelve Step healing, Christianity, and Eastern religions. With the publication of Codependent No More in 1986, Melody became a major voice in self-help literature and endeared herself to millions of readers striving for healthier relationships. She lives in Malibu, California.

Reviews

"Melody Beattie is an American phenomenon...She understands being overboard, which helps her throw best-selling lifelines to those still adrift."
--Time
"[This book] goes beyond how we hurt to how we heal."
--Veronica Ray, author of Choosing Happiness

Codependency is a term applying not only to the spouses of alcoholics and drug abusers, but to any ``person who has let someone else's behavior affect him or her, and is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.'' In her best-selling Codependent No More , and now here, Beattie draws on her own experience and on the insights developed by a whole U.S. subculture devoted to treatment and to participation in 12-step programs such as AA and Al-Anon. There are a lot of books circulating in this subculture, but Beattie reaches out to the mass market. She covers the usual codependency topics--oneself and one's needs, family of origin, intimacy, boundaries, conflict resolution, children, relationships, and relapse or recycle--but places them all in the infrequently considered context of how to keep going with a recovery process once it's begun.-- Janice Dunham, John Jay Coll. Lib., New York

"Melody Beattie is an American phenomenon...She understands being overboard, which helps her throw best-selling lifelines to those still adrift."
--Time
"[This book] goes beyond how we hurt to how we heal."
--Veronica Ray, author of Choosing Happiness