Codependency, as Melody Beattie describes it, means losing track of your own life while trying to manage someone else's. Her revised edition adds a chapter on trauma and anxiety.

Readical Key Points

• Revised and updated 2022 edition, with a new chapter on trauma and anxiety and a list of resources
• A #1 New York Times bestseller and a 2023 Nautilus Book Award winner, according to the publisher
• Personal reflections, exercises, and stories from her own experience and from people she has counseled
• Content note: discusses addiction, trauma and family dysfunction; not a substitute for treatment or professional care
• Paperback, 336 pages, Spiegel & Grau

Beattie writes for people whose days have come to revolve around a loved one's drinking, drug use or other self-destructive behavior. Her central point is that no one can change another person, and that care for oneself is where change begins. Chapters set her own history beside accounts from people she has worked with, and exercises turn the reader's attention to control, boundaries and old patterns.

The 2022 revision adds a chapter that brings trauma and anxiety into the discussion of codependency, along with a list of resources. It suits readers who love someone with an addiction and readers in twelve-step programs. Beattie offers a way of seeing a relationship; the changes she describes are still the reader's to make.

About the Author

Melody Beattie's other books include The Language of Letting Go, Playing It by Heart, The Grief Club, Beyond Codependency and The Codependent No More Workbook. In 2009 Newsweek listed Codependent No More among four essential self-help books.

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