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Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives Paperback – April 29, 2003
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Pia Mellody creates a framework for identifying codependent thinking, emotions and behaviour and provides an effective approach to recovery. Mellody sets forth five primary adult symptoms of this crippling condition, then traces their origin to emotional, spiritual, intellectual, physical and sexual abuses that occur in childhood. Central to Mellody's approach is the concept that the codependent adult's injured inner child needs healing. Recovery from codependence, therefore, involves clearing up the toxic emotions left over from these painful childhood experiences.
- Print length222 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarper & Row
- Publication dateApril 29, 2003
- Dimensions6 x 0.68 x 9 inches
- ISBN-109780062505897
- ISBN-13978-0062505897
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“Mellody is a true pioneer...she offers tried and effective ways to treat codependency. This is a splendid offering.” — John Bradshaw, national director of Codependency TreatmentLife Plus Institute, author of Healing the Shame That Binds You and Bradshaw On: The Family.
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Pia Mellody creates a framework for identifying codependent thinking, emotions and behaviour and provides an effective approach to recovery. Mellody sets forth five primary adult symptoms of this crippling condition, then traces their origin to emotional, spiritual, intellectual, physical and sexual abuses that occur in childhood. Central to Mellody's approach is the concept that the codependent adult's injured inner child needs healing. Recovery from codependence, therefore, involves clearing up the toxic emotions left over from these painful childhood experiences.
About the Author
Pia Mellody is an internationally renowned lecturer on the childhood origins of emotional dysfunc-tion. Her recovery work-shops have benefited people all over the world and her bestselling books have been translated into many languages. She is a member of the faculty at The Meadows Treatment Center, a residential center for victims of trauma, emotional abuse, and addictions, in Wickenburg, Arizona.
J. Keith Miller, the author of A Hunger for Healing, is a popular speaker and conference leader, and author. Among his best-selling books are The Taste of New Wine and Hope in the Fast Lane. He is also the coauthor of Facing Codependence.
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- ASIN : 0062505890
- Publisher : Harper & Row; 1st edition (April 29, 2003)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 222 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780062505897
- ISBN-13 : 978-0062505897
- Item Weight : 10.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.68 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,520 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #25 in Codependency (Books)
- #132 in Happiness Self-Help
- #382 in Parenting & Relationships (Books)
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Pia Mellody, a nationally recognized authority on codependence, is a consultant at The Meadows, a treatment center for addictions in Wickenburg, Arizona.
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Reading about the dynamics and how they affect people - leading to nonfunctional boundaries and relatively extreme/dysfunctional behavior - helped me understand some of the feelings and patterns that have plagued me and others around me.
I read this book because it was recommended to me by a knowledgeable person and even though it wasn't the most pleasant topic to look into and reflect on, the benefits have been great for better understanding and taking care of myself and understanding the people around me.
I am now reading Mellody's book The Intimacy Factor as a kind of treat and reward after reading this book - it reviews the content of Facing Codependence while looking deeply at the functional behaviors that enable healthy, rewarding intimate relationships.
I am still on the patient path to forgiveness, however this book clarified many issues present in myself that I was not wary or attentive of. Awareness is the first step toward action.
I also recommend reading Silently Seduced by Dr. Kenneth Adams. After that, read Kinsey Sex and Fraud by Judith Reisman which brings to light Kinsey's lies published as "statically common" data points on the sex lives of American ancestors— this led to the mistreatment of children were seeing today in terms of emotionally covert or physically overt abuse.
this book IS THE FOUNDATION of understanding childhood trauma, how it occurs, WHY it occurs, how child develops defense for it.
it lists 5 symptoms that are present in pretty much every person who is on drugs, homeless, addicted, in dysfunctional relationship, divorced, or even rich but has fidelity issues, or gambling or some fetish(since money becomes cover up of what goes on inside,in those cases).
this is a must read for everyone. cause no one achieves perfection ever. but getting better at all 5 symptoms is our personal responsibility. especially in todays times, when everyone is running around screaming how bad things are, yet haven't even moved out of their parents basement!
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I found this book to provide huge amounts of identification for me and moreover, it provides a considerable amount of non-theoretical, layperson friendly, explanation of the origins of co-dependency. For me, this is important in understanding how patterns and characteristics develop and therefore, creates a solid foundation from which to work an informed path towards recovery and healing. If you do not already have a sense of the importance of a higher power, or your own relationship with your own higher power you may find some of the ideas presented difficult to accept. We are each different people with our own journeys, but, for me, this book has been enlightening, empowering and invaluable.