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 ...

The concept of codependency was just psychology jargon when Melody Beattie, an addiction-recovery counselor, began writing the manuscript for her first book, Codependent No More. This was long before ...