Codependent No More With Melody Beattie
The Angry Therapist Podcast
John Kim
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Melody Beattie is the best selling author of Codependent No More. Since its first publication 36 years ago, it has helped heal over seven million readers and continues to sell 100,000+ copies a year. Updated for the first time, with a new chapter on trauma and anxiety, and Melody’s personal story revealed for the first time, this modern classic holds the key to understanding codependency and unlocking its hold on your life.
You can find her book here: https://melodybeattie.com/
Roughly ten minutes of self help in a shot glass. If you're looking for a wine glass, you've come to the wrong place. Marriage family therapist and best selling author, John Kim, shares his life and love revelations as well as insights from his sessions. He pulls the curtain back and documents his journey as a therapist but more importantly, as a human being.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own rebirth many years ago |
| 0:05.6 | and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life lessons and revelations. |
| 0:10.4 | I believe in casual or clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose |
| 0:16.4 | because self-health doesn't have to be so complicated. |
| 0:21.1 | So today's guest is quite the legend. She pretty much coined the concept |
| 0:28.5 | codependency. I don't know if codependency was even a thing before she put language to it. She wrote a book called |
| 0:34.8 | codependent No More in the 80s and it went on to sell 7 million copies. You know this book because your therapist gave you this book. |
| 0:44.8 | It's out again and she has the revised update after 38 years. |
| 0:51.8 | She is a soulful, kind, and just a wonderful human with an amazing story. |
| 0:58.6 | I learned so much from this episode and I know you will too. Here is Melanie B. |
| 1:05.0 | So, Melody, my first question to you because I am also an author, is what does it feel like to know that |
| 1:17.0 | 7 million people, or over 7 million people have read your book. |
| 1:26.7 | It's pretty astounding. |
| 1:30.3 | Yeah, does that make you want to just say, okay, I don't have to do anything else in the world. |
| 1:31.2 | I'm done. |
| 1:32.2 | I have made my dent, I'm done. No, I, when I start working and start being creative, it just goes on and on. |
| 1:41.5 | Because then I get another idea and I think, oh, and it takes me about five years to develop an idea once I get it. So that means I have to live with that idea, mush it around in my head. I mean, I become bed meets with that idea until I really get it. |
| 1:57.0 | So, I don't think I'll ever get tired of writing. |
| 2:00.0 | Yeah. |
| 2:02.0 | So, we both have many questions for you. I'll let you because I don't want to hog this. I know that your book and you have become foundational, you know, and yeah, what do you? |
| 2:18.0 | I have so many questions, but I really am just like, I have to say first and foremost for anybody listening you know |
| 2:25.9 | I'm a huge fan when John said that you reached out to be on his podcast I was like I'm coming on |
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