Melody Beattie
American Author
| Date of Birth | : | 02 Jul, 1948 |
| Place of Birth | : | Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States |
| Profession | : | Author |
| Nationality | : | American |
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Melody Beattie is an American author of self-help books on codependent relationships.
Education and career
Born Melody Vaillancourt in Minneapolis, Beattie graduated from high school with honors. She began drinking at age 12, was an alcoholic by age 13, and a drug addict by 18.
Beattie published 18 books including Codependent No More, Beyond Codependency, The Language of Letting Go and Make Miracles in Forty Days: Turning What You Have into What You Want, published in 2010. Several of her books have been published in other languages.
Ideas
Beattie, along with Janet G. Woititz and Robin Norwood, were popularizers of science, helping to digest and explain the work of psychiatrist Timmen L. Cermak, author of Diagnosing and Treating Co-Dependence. Beattie popularized the concept of codependency in 1986 with Codependent No More, which sold eight million copies.
Codependent No More was first published by the Hazelden Foundation. Beattie's early works also served as the first the Big Book for a 12-Step program called Co-Dependents Anonymous. Although "CoDA" now has a conference-approved (official) "the Big Book" of its own, Beattie's works continue to be central texts in some CoDA meetings.
Quotes
Total 35 Quotes
Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.
Today I will let go of my need for approval and my need to be liked. Instead, I will choose to like and approve of myself. The people who count (including me) will respect me when I'm true to who I really am.
Caring works. Caretaking doesn't. We can learn to walk the line between the two.
If somebody rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you would be if you had not been rejected.
Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.
Love yourself just as you are.
Today, I will focus on what's right about me. I will give myself some of the caring I've extended to the world.
Letting go of our ideas about how life should go is a choice that sets life's magic free.
You don't have to search so hard for meaning and destiny. If you focus on keeping yourself clear and in balance and you live from your heart, destiny and your highest-good path will unfold naturally at your feet.
I trust so much in the power of the heart and the soul; I know that the answer to what we need to do next is in our own hearts. All we have to do is listen, then take that one step further and trust what we hear. We will be taught what we need to learn.
