Have you lost touch with yourself while tending to the needs of others? Is someone else's problem becoming your problem? "Codependent No More," fully revised and updated, includes a new chapter on trauma and anxiety and is a contemporary classic that has sold over 7 million copies worldwide.
If, like so many others, you've lost touch with your life in the tragedy of caring for a loved one with self-destructive behavior, you may be codependent—and this book can help you. A cultural phenomenon that has helped millions of readers, this contemporary classic holds the key to understanding dependency and freeing yourself from it.
Melody Beattie's sympathetic and insightful look at dependency—the concept of losing oneself in the name of helping another—has guided millions of readers towards the understanding that they are powerless to change someone else and that self-care is the starting point for healing.
With personal reflections, exercises, and instructive stories drawn from herself and the lives of those she has advised, "Codependent No More" will help you break old habits and maintain healthy boundaries, offering a clear and achievable path to healing, hope, freedom, and happiness. This revised edition includes a brand-new chapter on trauma and anxiety, topics Beattie believes need to be addressed within the framework of dependency, making it even more relevant today than when it first entered the international conversation over thirty-five years ago.
