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Codependents' Guide to the Twelve Steps
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 f
...morePaperback, 224 pages
Published
April 9th 1992
by Fireside
(first published 1990)
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Very good for people working a 12 step program
Very insightful, good guidance.
the best 12 step literature I've read. written to a wide audience and how to apply the 12 steps to different symptoms while showing the 'causes and conditions' of our soul sicknesses
This is a fabulous journey for anyone who is sick and tired of being sick and tired! Melody is a fabulous story teller, writer and guide through the steps to transformation.
I've read this through a number of times in group settings. Each time, I still get a lot of ideas on how to improve my relationships with others and how I treat myself.
This is my other bible must read.,
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It is a good book and worth reading, but not my favorite of Melody's books so far.
OK, you can read all my caveats about 12 Step lit on my reviews of the Big Book and the 12 & 12, but if I was gonna HAVE to do the 12 Steps, I would do them from this book b/c she makes a point of saying that it doesn't have to done exactly as AA Nazis tell you it does, and you can even not have a diety, especially not a male one, as a Higher Power! :)
Easy to read, the author isn't up on a holier-than-thou pedestal, she makes no assumptions about your concept of a higher power. Great program tool for all friends of Lois and Bill. The questions at the end of each chapter are wonderful tools for working the step. Thank you to the author.
I'm not crazy about the author's writing style or all her examples, but the study questions at the end of each chapter are fabulous journal fodder.
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Over the years, Melody Beattie has become well-known in the world of self-help literature. After turning away from a life of addiction and suffering, Melody shared her own story in order to help others change theirs. Her overnight sensation, Codependant No More, has been influencing millions for over twenty years. Her passion for writing has resulted in fifteen books, including: Co-Dependants Anon...more
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