Melody Beattie, 76, a Minnesota native who overcame a turbulent childhood and drug addiction to author a string of bestselling books about codependency, relationships and caring for yourself, died on ...

Do you feel exhausted from carrying other peoples’ baggage? Your lack of boundaries could be a symptom of codependency. In ...

Melody Beattie, whose experiences as a drug addict, a chemical dependency counselor and the wife of an alcoholic informed a bestselling book about codependence that has guided countless people to shed ...

Source: Eamon Dolan Melody Beattie, who died on February 27, had a harder life than anyone deserves. During her 76 years, she faced sexual abuse, kidnapping, addiction, four divorces, the death of her ...

"I thought: if I just helped my friends, colleagues and neighbors, maybe I'd get the connection I craved in love, work and life," writes... How I broke free from codependency — and learned the meaning ...

Bestseller Beattie, of Codependent No More fame, revisits the topic she helped introduce more than 15 years ago, armed with more insight and a good deal of new scholarship, revising several old ...

We’ve all heard the saying, “Relationships are about give and take.” And it’s true — when you love someone, it’s natural to make small concessions so that your partner feels loved and appreciated. But ...

Codependency has become a popular term but what does it mean? Does it make sense to use the word as indiscriminately as we do or is codependency really just being human? The term originated back in ...