Melody Beattie – författare

I Sverige uppskattas ungefär en miljon personer leva som anhörig till missbrukare.

I den här moderna klassikern lär du dig att förstå medberoende och får hjälp att bryta dess negativa inflytande. Med hjälp av lärorika livsberättelser, personliga reflektioner och tydliga övningar är Fri från medberoende en karta över medberoendets förvirrande värld - en karta som kan visa vägen ut.

Att ta hand om sitt välmående innebär bland annat att man sätter och upprätthåller sunda gränser och säger nej till ohälsosamma relationer. En medberoende person tappar ofta bort sitt eget liv i dramatiken av att ta hand om någon annans.

Den här boken handlar om att stoppa smärtan och få tillbaka kontrollen. Med åtta miljoner sålda exemplar, är det en av världens mest populära självhjälpsböcker genom alla tider.

Melody Beattie har själv erfarenhet av både beroende och medberoende. Hon lyckades ta sig igenom sina svåra erfarenheter genom att hjälpa andra via sitt skrivande. Fri från medberoende har gjort begreppet medberoende känt världen över och boken har av Newsweek utnämnts till en av de fyra viktigaste självhjälpsböckerna någonsin.

"Beattie förstår hur det känns att ha fallit överbord, vilket hjälper henne att kasta livlinor till de som fortfarande kämpar." - Time Magazine

“Melody Beattie gives you the tools to discover the magnificence and splendor of your being.” — Deepak Chopra, author of Jesus and Buddha

 “Beattie understands being overboard, which helps her throw bestselling lifelines to those still adrift.” — Time magazine

From the New York Times bestselling author of Codependent No More, The Language of Letting Go, Finding Your Way Home, Journey to the Heart, and Stop Being Mean to Yourself, comes Choices: powerful wisdom and insight about how to make the best choices in our lives from the author who revolutionized how we look at relationships.

What does it mean to feel at home, truly present with ourselves, comfortable with our choices, and alive to the possibilities of conscious change? How can we develop inner balance and connection, keeping our boundaries clear while opening our hearts to those we love? With practical wisdom and insight, Melody Beattie addresses these questions, encouraging us to reach a higher level of living and loving, and showing us how to be at home with ourselves wherever we are in the world, at whatever stage of life.

Through true stories and take-action exercises, including journaling, visualizations, affirmations, meditations, and prayers, Beattie provides the essential tools to help us discover our own sense of home. Accessible and illuminating, Finding Your Way Home is a soul-searching look at how not to be victimized by ourselves′or other people. Beattie urges us to discover new levels of integrity, to break through barriers that have blocked us for too long. This is a powerful and challenging book about buying back our souls and learning to live a life guided by spirit.

Journey to the Heart by New York Times bestselling author of Codependent No More, Beyond Codependency, and Lessons of Love, contains 365 insightful daily meditations that inspire readers to unlock their personal creativity and discover their divine purposes in life.

“Melody Beattie gives you the tools to discover the magnificence and splendor of your being.” –Deepak Chopra, author of Jesus and Buddha

The timeless, magical story of one woman's return to life and love when she thought she had lost it all.

In this contemporized follow-up to Codependent No More (more than 3.8 million copies sold since 1986) beloved inspirational writer Melody Beattie narrates the story of her hard-won discovery that you really can love your neighbor and yourself.

Renowned for her compassionate voice and deep connection to the difficulties and joys of life and love, Melody Beattie has touched many people through her long list of bestselling books. Her newest offering is in spirit a sequel to Codependent No More yet in style a departure: a finely crafted story of her own spiritual adventure through Northern Africa that "revitalized my faith in God, in the universe, and in myself."

Stop Being Mean To Yourself introduces refreshing new ideas about healthy self-esteem for people trying to overcome -- or avoid -- the pitfalls of guilt and self-doubt. Readers who have had enough of jargon, enough of programs, enough of traditional self-help books will appreciate the appeal of this spiritual adventure story and the jewels of inspiration wrapped in its folds.

This odyssey is modern, full of suspense, excitement and the light of personal discovery. In each chapter, Beattie narrates part of her travels and offers solid, universal lessons that will apply to every reader -- lessons about trusting our instincts, setting boundaries, loving ourselves and working with our power. It is a message about a way of living based not on prescriptions but on working from the heart.

Have you lost sight of yourself while addressing the needs of others?Is someone else''s problem your problem?Fully revised and updated, with a new chapter on trauma and anxiety, this modern classic – that has already sold over 7 million copies across the globe – will help you heal and grow.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 behaviour, you may be codependent – and you may find yourself in this book.A 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. Melody Beattie''s compassionate and insightful look into codependency – the concept of losing oneself in the name of helping another – has helped to guide millions of readers towards the understanding that they are powerless to change anyone but themselves and that caring for the self is where healing begins.With personal reflections, exercises, and instructive stories drawn from Beattie''s own life and the lives of those she''s counselled, Codependent No More will help you break old patterns and maintain healthy boundaries, and offers a clear and achievable path to healing, hope, freedom and happiness.This revised edition includes an all-new chapter on trauma and anxiety – subjects Beattie has long felt need to be addressed within the context of codependency – making it even more relevant today than it was when it first entered the international conversation over thirty-five years ago.