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Breaking Free: A Recovery Workbook for Facing Codependence
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.86
EAN: 9780062505903
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0062505904
Label: HarperOne
Manufacturer: HarperOne
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: December 13, 1989
Publisher: HarperOne
Release Date: December 13, 1989
Studio: HarperOne
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Editorial Review:
In her pioneering Facing Codependence, Pia Mellody traced the origins of codependence back to childhood and a wide range of emotional, spiritual, intellectual, physical, and sexual abuses. Now in this innovative new workbook, she presents a step-by-step journal-keeping method for moving toward recovery from codependence. Based on such concepts as the "precious child" and the five core symptoms of codependence, along with the Twelve-Step process of recovery used by Codependents Anonymous, Breaking Free provides strategies and insights for attacking the fundamental problem in codependence--the lack of dependence on self.
In a three-part approach to recovery, Mellody first shows recovering codependents how to move beyond denial of their childhood history of abuse. She then offers techniques to identify concrete ways in which the symptoms of codependence operate in their lives. Finally, Mellody guides users through the process of identifying and recording specific instances of improvement in their lives as an aid to greater self-awareness and further recovery.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Good companion to 12 Step Process.
Breaking Free: A Recovery Workbook for Facing Codependence
Great companion for working the CODA 12 steps. makes tackling that fearsome 4th Step a lot easier. Simplify your recovery.... this workbook is a 'must have' tool.
Rating:  - I'm just not the journaling type. Are you?
Ok, ok, I have to admit I have journaled this year and so I bought the book hoping it would help me streamline the work I need to do. However, it didn't. But not because it's not well thought out but because I prefered to follow my own thoughts and feelings in my own way rather than the way layed out in the book. If you're interested in purchasing this book I recommend looking at it in person and carefully thinking about whether it will be helpful to you. It's basically lots of empty space (so you ... Read More
Rating:  - Toughest Book I Ever Loved
It took me several years before I was ready to work this book. I would pick it up, get paralyzed with fear, and then put it down. Once I was ready, it changed my life completely. I buy a new one every year or so, and work it for different reasons. Totally changed my world. I am forever grateful to the author.
Rating: - breaking free
This book was extremely helpful as a follow-up to Pia Mellody's other books.I know someone in recovery for drug and alcohol addictions and this book has helped me to help support them in their recover.
reccommend it.
Rating:  - Melody and Seligman - The Child Within or the Deep Blue Sea
I've taken a few sessions with Diane, a cognitive therapist, who has shown an interest in Melody's work. From the little I've read it seems that the work of Freud and Jung are at the heart of this type of analysis. From memory Freud argues that there are conscious and unconscious levels of human experience.
At the conscious level we go about our day to day lives growing, working, having families and other relationships as we may. The sub-conscious level of being is the fundamentally ... Read More
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