Codependency Addiction

After Rihanna and Alanis Morissette and Amber Smith and Rachel Uchitel, we've all heard about love addiction--people who feel they can only be happy when they are deep in an all-consuming love. There are a handful of books about it (including Facing Love Addiction by Pia Melody, Women Who Love Too Much by Robin Norwood, Love Addict by Ethlie Ann Vare, and others), and many rehab and recovery centers are now advertising that they help clients with love addictions and codependency. But no one has approached the subject of its equally damaging cousin--relationship addiction. Relationship ...

Is someone else's problem your problem? If, like so many others, you've lost sight of your own life in the drama of tending to a loved one’s self-destructive behavior, you may be codependent—and you may find yourself in this book. With personal reflections, exercises, and instructive stories drawn from Beattie’s own life and the lives of those she’s counseled, Codependent No More helps you break old patterns and maintain healthy boundaries, and offers a clear and achievable path to healing, hope, freedom, and happiness.

Through 12-step work, exercises, and journal-keeping, Facing Love Addiction compassionately and realistically outlines the recovery process for love addicts. Mellody’s fresh perspective and clear methods work to comfort and motivate all those looking to establish and maintain healthy, happy relationships.

It started with a secret. One Elle never saw coming. Her husband, a brilliant Stanford executive, a doting father, best friend, was addicted to meth. Until Meth Do Us Part is the true story of what came after the truth cracked everything open, a family navigating more than ten rehab stays, repeated relapses, financial freefall, and the quiet devastation addiction brings into a home. This isn’t a story of rock bottom under a bridge. It’s about rock bottom showing up in a house with kids, routines, and a white picket fence. Told through raw memories, real messages, and the unfiltered ...

Gretchen Beck’s unflinching memoir takes readers on a raw and powerful journey through the chaos of addiction, the relentless fight for sobriety, and the winding road to redemption. After surviving seven overdoses and enduring multiple failed treatment attempts, Gretchen finally found lasting recovery. But her journey didn’t end there. As a substance abuse counselor, she dedicated her life to helping others find hope—until a devastating divorce shattered her world and led to her first experience with heroin. Hitting rock bottom once again, Gretchen swallowed her pride and returned to ...

In this expanded third edition, Brenda Schaeffer draws on years of feedback and new developments to foster an understanding of love addiction: what it is and what it is not, how to identify it, and, even more important, how to break free of it. Stories of real people struggling to develop sound relationships illustrate the characteristics of healthy love and help listeners to free themselves to find real intimacy.  

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An up-close portrait of the mind of an addict and a life unraveled by narcotics—a memoir of captivating urgency and surprising humor that puts a human face on the opioid crisis. Tiffany’s story continues in the New York Times bestseller A Clean Mess, available now!...

Married to the Bottle: A Survival Guide for Spouses of Alcoholics So you fell in love with Prince Charming, only to discover he prefers kissing a bottle of vodka goodnight. Welcome to the rollercoaster of emotions, chaos, and questionable life choices known as marriage to an alcoholic. In "Married to the Bottle," you’ll find the ultimate survival guide for navigating life with a partner whose idea of fine dining involves pairing last night’s pizza with a warm beer. This book serves up the perfect cocktail of humor, resilience, and practical advice, helping you dance through the ...

Learn How To Help An Alcoholic Alcoholism affects everybody. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do, if you know an alcoholic, your life will change. Interpersonal relationships will suffer, recovery will stagnate, and families will crumble. Coping with an alcoholic can be the most trying thing in the world, damaging us emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and even physically. Alcoholism and the family can never go hand-in-hand. But it can be treated. Alcohol addiction recovery is possible. Whether coping with an alcoholic spouse, living in an alcoholic family, struggling with an ...

This updated Love, Infidelity and Sexual Addiction: A Codependent's Perspective- With Cybersex Addiction is an honest sharing of a trust betrayed. It chronicles the author's personal experiences with a sexually addicted spouse as well as stories of others in recovery from co-addiction. This book offers hope and healing to those who have suffered from repeated betrayal. First, it explains the cycle of sexual addiction: the compulsive use of multiple affairs, pornography, or cybersex. When the author, who suffered through repeated infidelities, learned about sexual addiction, she discovered ...

How do you love a child who is destroying themselves? You fight. You beg. You rescue. You wait for the call that will shatter you forever. You cancel appointments, decline invitations, and drive them every morning while they are rude in the passenger seat—because love does not know what else to do. But what if saving them means losing yourself? This book is for the parent who is drowning in guilt, fear, and exhaustion. The one who has tried everything — prayer, ultimatums, therapy, silence, screaming — and is still losing the battle against addiction. The one who understands, ...

In Addiction to Love, recovering love addict Susan Peabody explains the variety of ways this disorder plays out, from the obsessively doting love addict to the addict who can't disentangle from an unfulfilling, dead-end relationship. Peabody provides an in-depth and easy-to-follow recovery program for those suffering from this unhealthy and often dangerous addiction and explains how to create a loving, safe, and fulfilling relationship.  

Are you still blaming yourself for your child's addiction? Still lying awake at 3 a.m. replaying every choice, every moment, every word you should have said differently? Still carrying the weight of a story that was never yours to carry? Mama, it's time to put it down. YOU WERE NEVER THE PROBLEM is the book that will finally say what no one in your life has been brave enough to tell you: your child's addiction is not your fault. And your suffering — the guilt, the shame, the relentless self-blame — is not the truth. It is a story. And stories can be rewritten. Drawing on the ...

From the leading expert on adult children of addicts, an essential guide to healing wounds of growing up with addiction and family dysfunction “Required reading for understanding the full picture of recovery, repair, and reclaiming our true selves.”—Aimie Apigian, MD, author of The Biology...

When addiction hits a family, it’s damage can be severe. Just as a hurricane-force storm devastates a physical home, the “storm” of addiction can bring destruction to everyone involved. Christian Families in Recovery will help you take a deeper look at the nature of addiction and recovery from a Christ-centered perspective. By learning the tools of intervention, you can love the addict, but establish an environment that will not support the addiction. Not only that, the heart of God seeks to reconcile and restore, even if only one member participates in recovery. Gaining this ...

When addiction enters a family, it does not only affect the person struggling — it can shake the whole home. If someone you love is caught in addiction, you may feel exhausted, frightened, confused, and unsure what to do next. You may be asking yourself hard questions: Am I helping or making things worse? How do I set boundaries without guilt? How do I protect my family, my finances, my children, and my own peace? When Addiction Hits Home is a calm, compassionate guide for family members who are trying to cope when someone they love is struggling with substance abuse. This book does not ...

You can say no. You can stop people-pleasing and start setting boundaries. You can ask for what you need. You can love and be loved - without sacrifice - by breaking the codependency cycle. The Codependency Recovery Plan empowers you to have healthy, happy interdependent relationships. This actionable five-step program is designed to help you get in touch with yourself, assert boundaries, and communicate confidently. You’ll be free to nurture true intimacy.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Clinical psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Julie Smith (@drjulie) returns with this highly anticipated handbook full of “break in case of emergency” advice for dealing with mental health challenges in the moment they occur. In this essential guide, Dr. Julie...

In Prodependence, Weiss presents a research-based social and psychological understanding of human interdependence, accepting and even celebrating human interdependency in ways that are healthy and life-affirming for each person.

Break Free From Over-Functioning, Over-Delivering, People-Pleasing, and Ignoring Your Own Needs So You Can Finally Live the Life You Deserve! Most of us were never taught how to effectively express our preferences, desires or deal-breakers. Instead, we hide our feelings behind passive-aggressive...