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Summary: corresponding book
Review: I just wanted potential customers to know...that the workbook is structured to correspond with the book. IF you purchase the workbook ALONE... the writer's instruct you to read passages in their book prior to continuing with a various workbook section. I cannot yet rate the merits of the material...as I have yet to recieve the book in the mail...so that I can begin.
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Summary: Simplistic and misses the point
Review: Still another way to avoid complete responsibility for one's own behavior.... as in it's not my problem, I project it onto my "co-dependent" and so the saga of "I must fix someone else to be happy myself" continues. Well, you CAN'T fix anyone else or manipulate them into behaving differently toward you. Take ownership of your projections, see how what you don't like in others is what you don't like in yourself and fix that. When you fix yourself, your whole world changes. There are plenty of books here about working on just yourself.
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Summary: Hard but Neccessary
Review: This book takes the premise that it will root out and rid you of your denial. I am sure that is helpful, but it is very painful. I got this book because I was feeling overwhelmed with realizing how bad things had gotten in my life and was looking for help. I am more depressed than ever. This is not the place to go for hope. But, I think it is probably true that when you have stalled in your recovery or have reverted without realizing it, that it is because you have fallen into denial. And she is trying to lessen that. Probably overall key to recovery, but very difficult in the moment. I am sure that it is a neccessary piece of recovery to be balanced against other more hopeful tools.
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Summary: Use it if you dare
Review: This is a wonderful companion workbook to Pia Mellody's Facing Codependence. Mellody first has you read specific pages in Facing Codependence, after which she has you complete the corresponding writing exercises in Breaking Free. The exercises are short, thorough, and extremely well organized -- and because of that, not hard to do. Keep in mind though that if you do the exercises, you might never think about your relationships the same way again. And that's a GOOD thing -- or at least it was for me. I'd highly recommend this to anyone wanting to change dysfunctional relationship patterns.
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Summary: Finding freedom from self
Review: This workbook enables you to look at your attitudes, feelings and behaviors by using exercises that review daily life. In addition, by encompassing the tradidtional AA 12 Steps, you can focus your recovery on letting go, relying on your God and admitting your excessive emotional outbreaks. It helped me immensley to find out how to turn on my light from the inside instead of expecting and wishing that it would happen from those around me.
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Summary: Very in-depth and constructive, from past-present-future
Review: This workbook is the best I've used for codependence recovery, I highly recommend it when used in conjunction with Facing Codependence (Don't get the workbook without also getting Facing Codependence).It's really helped me make some great strides and insight into my dysfunctional boundaries and behaviors.
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