Book Description
Melody Beattie once again distills her compassionate insight on how to nurture spiritual and emotional health and recovery. With her attention turned to relationships and all the joys and challenges they create, the author's reflections give voice to the thoughts and feelings common to men and women in recovery. Written in the direct, unsentimental style of her best-sellers, this new volume of meditaions offers new and longtime readers of Beattie's work advice on perennial relationship issues such as surrendering and its never-ending importance; manipulation and its damaging effects; honesty about feelings; defensiveness; drama addiction; healthy communication; ongoing family of origin issues; unhealthy tendencies to caretake others, despite knowing better; and the peaks and valleys of wavering self-esteem.