Melody beattie ted talks
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EMPOWERING YOU TO DEAL WITH WHATEVER LIFE THROWS AT YOU
A pioneering voice in self-help literature and the recovery movement, Melody Beattie is the author of many bestselling books—including The Language of LettingGo, Playing It by Heart, The Grief Club, Beyond Codependency, and The Codependent No More Workbook.
In 2009, Newsweek named Codependent No More one of the four most essential self-help books of all time.
The cultural phenomenon that has helped heal millions of readers, this modern classic holds the key to understanding codependency and unlocking its hold on your life.
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Codependent No More was named one of the four essential self-help books of all time by Newsweek.
“The longer this lifetime goes, the more convinced I am that our primary responsibility in life is to find a way to make peace with ourselves, our past, and
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Melody Beattie is one of America’s most beloved self-help authors and a household name in addiction and recovery circles. Her international bestselling book, Codependent No More, introduced the world to the term “codependency” in 1986. Millions of readers have trusted Melody’s words of wisdom and guidance because she knows firsthand what they’re going through. In her lifetime, she has survived abandonment, kidnapping, sexual abuse, drug and alcohol addiction, divorce, and the death of a child. “Beattie understands being overboard, which helps her throw bestselling lifelines to those still adrift,” said Time Magazine. Melody was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1948. Her father left home when she was a toddler, and she was raised by her mother. She was abducted by a stranger at age four. Although she was rescued the same day, the incident set the tone for a childhood of abuse, and she was sexually abused by a neighbor throughout her youth. Her mother turned a blind eye, just as she had denied the occurrence of abuse in her own past. “My mother was a classic codependent,” Melody recal
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Melody Beattie
American writer
Melody Beattie (born on July 2, 1948) is an American author of self-help books on codependent relationships.[1]
Education and career
Born Melody Vaillancourt in Minneapolis, Beattie graduated from high school with honors. She began drinking at age 12, was an alcoholic by age 13, and a drug addict by 18.[2][3]
Beattie published 18 books including Codependent No More, Beyond Codependency, The Language of Letting Go and Make Miracles in Forty Days: Turning What You Have into What You Want, published in 2010. Several of her books have been published in other languages.[4][5]
Ideas
Beattie, along with Janet G. Woititz and Robin Norwood, were popularizers of science, helping to digest and explain the work of psychiatrist Timmen L. Cermak, author of Diagnosing and Treating Co-Dependence.[6] Beattie popularized the concept of codependency in 1986 with Codependent No More, which sold eight million copies.[7][8]
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