Melody Beattie

At the same token, I have just finished unpacking the last of my boxes for my office, which means my books and my reference material are now here on my bookshelves.

And if anyone's been listening to my podcast since early, I have this book by Melody Beattie that my girlfriend gave me, Journey to the Heart, years ago.

And I always love using it spiritually and energetically when I'm unsure what to talk about or if I need some clarity.

I will just tell my team when I'm praying, saying, okay, guys, just show me something.

I don't really know what that means, but I know I'm not that.

And then in my therapy sessions, it kept coming up like, hey, you need to read Codependent No More by Melody Beattie.

And I just kind of would take offense.

I was like, I'm not, I don't understand.

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... desire, like any form of codependency, regular, you know, Melody Beattie, Codependent No More codependency, where you're dealing with addiction, or Terri Cole's High Functioning Codependency, where you're dealing with everything.

It is a, an overt or a covert bid to control other people's outcomes.

So I love you, and I don't want you to be in pain.

So let's go deeper into the research now.

In nineteen eighty-six, Melody Beattie's book, Codependent No More, turned into a household word, and that's some very powerful work about the relationship between an addict and their partner, the emotional enmeshment, the person who's living with an addict and losing themselves in the crisis of the addict, losing their sense of self, abandoning their own needs, and the impact of this.

This is very powerful work.

I'm not saying anything against it.

She also gave me this book.

I don't see it here, but it's by Melody Beattie.

It's called The Language of Letting Go.

It's by Melody Beattie.

When I tell you I have read this book almost every day for like five years- Until a book called You Deserve came out by Emory Cannon.

But this book was really good.

The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie changed my life.

And some mornings, it steadied me.

Think of it as a cognitive tool that redirects your focus from what's broken to what is working perfectly.

The, the author Melody Beattie wrote this: "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

It turns what we have into enough and more.

It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity." That's perfectly said.

Think of it as a cognitive tool that redirects your focus from what's broken to what is working perfectly.

The, the author Melody Beattie wrote this.

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

It turns what we have into enough and more.