Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives
10 best books like Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives (Pia Mellody): The Reckoning, Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness, The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize It and How to Respond, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain, The Sands of Time, Adult Children of Alcoholics
| Author | Sharon Kay Penman |
| ISBN | 0345378881 |
"Penman's characters are so shrewdly imagined, so full of resonant human feeling that they seem to be on the page....Most compelling is the portrait of the Welsh as wild and rugged as their landscape."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Here, alive from the pages of history, is the compelling tale of...
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
2005 15th anniversary edition reprint
Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, is perhaps the best-known proponent of using meditation to help patients deal with illness. (The somewhat confusing title is from a line in Zorba...
| Author | Patricia Evans |
| ISBN | 1558505822 |
In this fully expanded and updated third edition of the bestselling classic, you learn why verbal abuse is more widespread than ever, and how you can deal with it. You'll get more of the answers you need to recognize abuse when it happens, respond to abusers safely and appropriately, and most important,...
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
| Author | Alice Miller |
| ISBN | 0465016901 |
The bestselling book on childhood trauma and the enduring effects of repressed anger and pain
Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided millions of readers with an answer--and has helped them to apply...
Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
| Author | Melody Beattie |
| ISBN | 0894864025 |
The healing touchstone of millions, this modern classic by one of America's best-loved and most inspirational authors holds the key to understanding codependency and to unlocking its stultifying hold on your life.
Is someone else's problem your problem? If, like so many others, you've...
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
| Author | Bessel A. van der Kolk |
| ISBN | 0670785938 |
A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing.
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics;...
| Author | Ellen Bass |
| ISBN | 0061284335 |
Come to terms with your past while moving powerfully into the future
The Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and a map of the healing journey to every woman who was sexually abused as a child—and to those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual...
A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
| Author | Marc Morris |
| ISBN | 0091796849 |
This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king – a man born to rule England, who believed that it was his right to rule all of Britain. His reign was one of the most dramatic and important of the entire Middle Ages, leading to war and conquest on an unprecedented scale, and...
| Author | Sidney Sheldon |
| ISBN | 0006174434 |
Four nuns find themselves suddenly thrust into a hostile world they long ago abandoned for the safety of the convent. Unwittingly they become pawns in a battle between the charismatic Jaime Miró, leader of the outlawed Basque nationalists, and the ruthless Colonel Ramón Acoca of the Spanish Amy.
Four...
| Author | Janet Geringer Woititz |
| ISBN | 1558741127 |
In the 1980's, Janet Woititz broke new ground in our understanding of what it is to be an Adult Child of an Alcoholic. In this updated edition of her bestseller she re-examines the movement and its inclusion of Adult Children from various dysfunctional family backgrounds who share the same characteristics....
Get the Guy: How to Find, Attract, and Keep Your Ideal Mate
Most dating books tell you what not to do. Here's a book dedicated to telling you what you can do.
In his book, Get the Guy, Matthew Hussey - relationship expert, matchmaker, and star of the reality show Ready for Love - reveals the secrets of the male mind and the fundamentals of dating and mating...
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 0938077007 |
Being Peace
I keep Thich Naht Hanh's books in my book case
but anymore I do not read them.
I think of him often, ever since he had a stroke.
He made it though, but I can't find out how he is.
As far as I know he is still alive
and still a very wise but old man.
Some days...
| Author | John Bradshaw |
| ISBN | 0757303234 |
“I used to drink,” writes John Bradshaw, “to solve the problems caused by drinking. The more I drank to relieve my shame-based loneliness and hurt, the more I felt ashamed.”
Shame is the motivator behind our toxic behaviors: the compulsion, co-dependency, addiction and drive to...
Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Their Children Partners - Understanding Covert Incest
| Author | Kenneth M. Adams |
| ISBN | 1558741313 |
Did you have a parent whose love for you felt more confining than freeing, more demanding than giving, more intrusive than nurturing? Did you feel trapped in a "psychological marriage" with this parent? If so, you may be a victim of covert incest. Identification of this kind of incest is difficult, since...
| Author | Charles L. Whitfield |
| ISBN | 0932194400 |
Dr. Whitfield provides a clear and effective introduction to the basic principles of recovery. This book is a modern classic, as fresh and useful today as it was more than a decade ago when first published. Here, frontline physician and therapist Charles Whitfield describes the process of wounding...
| Author | John Bradshaw |
| ISBN | 1558744274 |
Based on the public television series of the same name, Bradshaw On: The Family is John Bradshaw's seminal work on the dynamics of families that has sold more than a million copies since its original publication in 1988. Within its pages, you will discover the cause of emotionally impaired families....
Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction
| Author | Patrick J. Carnes |
| ISBN | 1568386214 |
With the revised information and up-to-date research, Out of the Shadows is the premier work on sex addiction, written by a pioneer in its treatment.
Sex is at the core of our identities. And when it becomes a compulsion, it can unravel our lives. Out of the Shadows is the premier work on this disorder,...
Growing Yourself Back Up: Understanding Emotional Regression
| Author | John H. Lee |
| ISBN | 0609806416 |
Someone pushes your buttons . . . you feel rage . . . fear . . . sweaty palms . . . unbidden tears . . . you feel like a kid . . .
We've all experienced moments when we lose control of a situation and ourselves. Now, in Growing Yourself Back Up, the first book to explain the idea of emotional regression to...
Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder
Stop Walking on Eggshells: Coping When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder is a self-help guide that helps the family members and friends of individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) understand this self-destructive disorder and learn what they can do to cope...
| Author | Melody Beattie |
| ISBN | 0894865838 |
In simple, straightforward terms, Beattie takes you into the territory beyond codependency, into the realm of recovery and relapse, family-of-origin work and relationships, surrender and spirituality.
You're learning to let go, to live your life free of the grip of someone else's problems....
| Author | Al-Anon Family Groups |
| ISBN | 0910034796 |
After two years, I think I've read most of this book; its format is the "daily inspiration" type with a reading for each day of the year. Yes, I sometimes read some of the text with a touch of sarcasm in my voice, but one of the awesome things I've learned in Al-Anon is to TAKE WHAT YOU LIKE AND LEAVE THE REST....
Is It Love or Is It Addiction?
| Author | Brenda Schaeffer |
| ISBN | 1568381409 |
With more than 250,000 copies in print, "Is It Love or Is It Addiction? " has helped countless people find their way from the trials and confusions of addictive love to the fulfillment of whole and healthy relationships. In this second edition, psychotherapist Brenda Schaeffer draws on new developments...
Boundaries: Where You End And I Begin: How To Recognize And Set Healthy Boundaries
| Author | Anne Katherine |
| ISBN | 1567312365 |
Are your boundaries being violated?
Boundaries separate us from others physically and emotionally. In fact, they are essential for our mental and physical health as well as for developing healthy relationships. Yet every day, people's boundaries are violated by friends, family, or coworkers....
The New Codependency: Help and Guidance for Today's Generation
| Author | Melody Beattie |
| ISBN | 1439101922 |
In "Codependent No More, " Melody Beattie introduced the world to the term "codependency." Now a modern classic, this book established Beattie as a pioneer in self-help literature and endeared her to millions of readers who longed for healthier relationships. Twenty-five years later concepts such...
| Author | Henry Cloud |
| ISBN | 0310200342 |
Boundaries in Dating
offers illuminating insights for romance that can help you grow in freedom, honesty, and self-control as you pursue a healthy dating relationship that will lead to a healthy marriage.
Dating can be fun, but it's not easy. Meeting people is just one concern. Once you've...
Between Parent and Child: The Bestselling Classic That Revolutionized Parent-Child Communication
| Author | Haim G. Ginott |
| ISBN | 0609809881 |
Over the past thirty-five years, Between Parent and Child has helped millions of parents around the world strengthen their relationships with their children. Written by renowned psychologist Dr. Haim Ginott, this revolutionary book offered a straightforward prescription for empathetic yet...
Why the Rich Are Getting Richer
It’s Robert Kiyosaki’s position that “It is our educational system that causes the gap between the rich and everyone else.” He laid the foundation for many of his messages in the international best-seller Rich Dad Poor Dad — the #1 Personal Finance book of all time — and in Why the Rich Are...
| Author | Joe Girard |
| ISBN | 0446385018 |
Who I am today is very much influenced by this great book. Perhaps it offers the same message as any other similar books on personal improvement topic, but I know I had fallen in love with this book ever since I picked it up in a book fair in my campus and read a couple chapters of it. I agree a great deal with what...
Sidney Sheldon's The Tides of Memory
| Author | Tilly Bagshawe |
| ISBN | 0062073427 |
New York Times bestselling author Tilly Bagshawe, who delivered the late beloved author’s brilliance in Sidney Sheldon’s After the Darkness, is back with a stunning tale of duplicity and vengeance in Sidney Sheldon’s The Tides of Memory.
The members of the formidable and captivating...
The Human Magnet Syndrome: The Codependent Narcissist Trap
The Human Magnet Syndrome: The Codependent Narcissist Trap is a complete rewrite of Ross's first book. Not only is the book re-written, re-organized, updated and expanded, it contains over 125 more pages than the original. Ross provides a more explicit rendering of The Human Magnet Syndrome, that...
