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Many codependent people are stuck in a state of denial about their condition; it goes with the territory. Everyone can be codependent to some small degree, recreating dysfunctional family dynamics in an endless cycle of doomed relationships but, ironically, the more serious of a problem it is, the more one tends to deny there is a pattern. With this step-by-step workbook, Pia Mellody and Andrea Miller can help people overcome denial and begin to escape the relationship misery they've been clinging to. They encourage readers to practice the cognitive approach, which involves writing down lots of things such as past memories, present feelings, and future hopes (there are worksheets and spaces in the book to write). A huge and undoubtedly painful part of this process is the acknowledgement and written recording of abuse one may have received as a child, which can range to the horrors of sexual abuse to the comparatively minor--but still devastating--infractions of intellectual and spiritual abuse. This is only the first step on a long ladder, but it ultimately can lead to a whole new joy of living one may have never known, where the self-crippling demons of the past are finally and forever laid to rest.
| Size | | Length: | 422 pages | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 7.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 31.2 oz |
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