Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer. She covers addiction and public policy. With over seven million copies sold, Melody Beattie’s 1986 best seller, “Codependent No More: How to ...

How I broke free from codependency — and learned the meaning of loving relationships. August 30, 2024 10:02 AM ET. By . ... author of Codependent No More, a central text on the subject.

Maybe "codependency" is how we learned to deal with the lack in our childhoods or, in other words, our childhood wounding. There is comfort in realizing that we are all healing our childhood ...

And what I just listed are some of the caretaking characteristics Melody actually wrote about in "Codependent No More." Codependency is a sense of feeling overly responsible for someone else, and ...

How to break free from codependent relationships When we derive value from supporting others to the detriment of our own health, we risk the quality of our relationships.

If you haven’t laid awake at night worrying about relationships, we are not the same. For most of my life, bedtime meant rumination. I’d agonize over a crush. I’d analyze work emails in my ...