Codependents' Guide to the Twelve Steps
By:
Melody Beattie
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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Description:
First the Hurt, Now the Healing... Millions identified with Melody Beattie in Codependent No More and gained inspiration from her in Beyond Codependency. Now she's back to help you discover how recovery programs work and to help you find the right one for you. Interpreting the famous Alcoholics Anonymous Twelve Steps specifically for codependent issues for the very first time, this groundbreaking book combines Melody's expertise with the experience of other people to:
• Explain each step and how you can apply it to your particular issues
• Offer specific exercises and activities to use both in group settings and on your own • Provide a directory of the wide range of Twelve Step programs -- including Al-Anon, Codependents Anonymous, Codependents of Sex Addicts, Adult Children of Alcoholics, and more
The uniquely warm and compassionate voice of Melody Beattie will inspire you to turn your life around -- one step at a time.
Publisher: Fireside
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Great Read! - This book is incredible. Beattie finds the right words to help the reader really delve into what the 12 steps mean and how to apply them to improve your life. Definately, I worthwhile purchase!
Customer Review: 1 out of 5
So Sophimoric - This could have been written by a high school freshman. It is a one note diatribe which repeats and repeats itself with the same examples, just different people. They are all connected to alcoholics or drug users and are themselves insecure, overweight and needy. It is the 12 steps of AA customized for co-dependents. Nothing new is said and the implementation is so ephemeral as to be unuseable.
Customer Review: 1 out of 5
Bad Condition - This book, while used, was indicated to be in very good condition - it is in my garage airing out because it smells of having been stored in some damp location. Smelled old and musty. This book should simply have been recycled. Very disappointed.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Clear, compassionate help for codependency - The group I belong to is reading through this for about the fourth time since I've been part of the group. Each time, I find nuances I'd missed before. Anyone wishing to understand and begin recovering from codependency will find help in this book. If I could have only had these thoughts of wisdom thirty years ago I'd have saved myself untold grief and stress. I'm thankful to have found Melody Beattie and her commonsense approach to recovery from being codependent.
When I first began to realize I could be codependent, I read a passage in a different Melody Beattie book which said that if I was willing to allow myself a good life, it would happen. This book, Codependents' Guide to the Twelve Steps, outlines one way that can begin to happen immediately.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Very useful companion - This has been very useful. I redo the "codependency no more" about every 6 months. I simply need to be reminded of my engrained personality traits and this is a great way to work the twelve step program with it. I cannot recommend it enough
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