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Beattie, Melody
Codependent No More:
How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring For Yourself

Everyone can see your downward spiral - but you. For weeks, months, you've been pulling back from family and friends, lying to protect your loved one, putting on a brave face, all the while silently raging at the emotional, psychological and financial toll your partner has had on you; you've become a caretaker, a control freak, obsessive, whiny, distrusting, manipulative, bitter and implacable. You feel empty and wonder, perhaps, if you're losing your mind. It's hard to do simple things, like get out of bed. Life once held so much hope, but now it's gone. You wonder where the love went, but you're too weak, and hurt, to let go and move on. Your staying only making things worse.

Beattie says your partner may be a substance abuser, gambler, sex addict, or any other kind of troubled or needy person, it doesn't matter. There's no question their behavior is highly destructive - but so is yours. Your habits and reactions to your situation are allowing it to persist while sabotaging the most important person in your life, the only person you can change - you.

Beattie helps readers identify the characteristics of codependency. Her advice
includes, for example, how to care for yourself by redefining boundaries of respect and giving, refusing to participate in the drama your partner creates, seeking counseling and taking action to change your situation, not just talking about it.

She offers thoughtful, much-needed insight and a path to healing, to help restore faith in the power of love - which begins with self-love.

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