Codependent No More

If you've ever found yourself scanning the room, anticipating shifts in mood, over-explaining, over-functioning, trying to say the perfect thing, fix the feeling, stabilize the other person, and keep the whole emotional system from falling apart...

This episode is for you, too, because today I want to talk about the three C's, which is a teaching that comes out of codependency and Al-Anon recovery spaces, popularized in large part through Melanie Beattie's work, R.I.P., and her book, Codependent No More.

The three C's are simple, but they are not easy.

So buckle up.

It takes time, but I know you can do it.

One of the books that I started reading again was Codependent No More by Melody Beattie.

I had read it years ago, decades ago actually, and thought it might be a good book to pick up again to remind me of how much of myself I'm giving away.

That's it for this goddess card message for September.

Yeah, I agree.

You know, years ago, there was a book called Codependent No More.

It was revolutionary at its time by Melody Beattie.

And there was a piece in it I've never forgotten where she describes.

Yeah.

And she wrote a groundbreaking book in the '80s called Co-Dependent No More.

Then she wrote another book called Beyond Co-Dependence.

And so it's a...

This is my childhood friend." But it is worth...

Everybody [laughs] listening should pick up a book called Codependent No More.

Melody Beattie, I think is her name.

It should just be required reading.