Publisher: Hazelden Publishing

Date: April 01, 2011

The Codependent No More Workbook was designed for Beattie fans spanning the generations, as well as for those who may not yet even understand the meaning and impact of their codependency.  In this accessible and engaging workbook, Beattie uses her trademark down-to-earth style to offer readers an interactive program to stop obsessing about others by developing the insight, strength, and resilience to start taking care of themselves.

Through hands-on journaling, exercises, and self-tests, readers will learn to integrate the time-tested concepts outlined in Codependent No More into their daily lives by

1. setting and enforcing healthy limits

2. learning empowering ways to give and nurture

3. experiencing genuine love and forgiveness

4. letting go and detaching from others’ harmful behaviors

Whether fixated on a loved one with depression, an addiction, an eating disorder, self-destructive behaviors, or someone who makes unhealthy decisions, this book offers the practical means to plot a comprehensive, personalized path to hope, healing, and the freedom to be your own best self.

About Melody Beattie:

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Melody Beattie’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

• Hardcover: 300 pages
• Publisher: Counterpoint Press (January 11, 2011)

Despite experiencing the agony of witnessing her mother’s multiple suicide attempts, the last of which was successful, Linda Gray Sexton found herself gripped by the same strong tentacles of mental anguish. Falling into the familiar grooves of her mother’s relentless depression, Sexton tries once, twice, three times to kill herself—even though she is a daughter, sister, wife, and most importantly, a mother.

Sexton unsparingly describes her struggle to escape the magnetism of her mother and the undertow of depression that engulfed her life. Her powerful prose drags readers into her imperviously dark mental state. It conveys her urgent need to alleviate the internal pain, a need that becomes compulsive and considers no one.

But unlike her mother, hers is a story of triumph. Through the help of family, therapy, and medicine, Sexton confronted deep-seated issues, outlived her mother, and curbed the haunting cycle of suicide she once seemed destined to inherit.

Over a million people kill themselves annually–and their families, too, are prisoners of their depression and suicidal urges.  Half in Love speaks for them all.

“Linda Sexton’s determination to forge an identity independent of suicide and destruction is powerful; her book is a vivid and inspiring story of living through despair and coming out the stronger for it.”–Kay Redfield Jamison, author of An Unquiet Mind and Night Falls Fast, and Professor of Psychiatry, John Hopkins School of Medicine

“In a country where someone commits suicide every seventeen minutes, where bipolar disorder is rampant and poorly understood, Linda Sexton’s beautiful book is a cry for health and sanity. It will bring hope and understanding because it explains the way suicide blights families from generation to generation.” —Erica Jong, author of Fear of Flying

About Linda Gray Sexton

Linda Gray Sexton was born in Newton, Massachusetts in 1953 and graduated from Harvard University in 1975. She is the daughter of the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Anne Sexton, and has edited several books of her mother’s poetry and a book of her mother’s letters, as well as writing a memoir about her life with her mother, “Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back To My Mother, Anne Sexton.” “Rituals,” “Mirror Images,” “Points of Light,” and “Private Acts” are her four published and widely read novels. “Points of Light” was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame Special for television.

“Searching for Mercy Street” was named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and reviewed to overwhelming critical acclaim. In the New York Times, Michiko Kakutani described the book this way: “Powerful and affecting…a candid, often painful, depiction of a daughter’s struggles to come to terms with her powerful and emotionally troubled mother. Sexton writes with compelling urgency and candor…a disturbing portrait of a mercurial, impossible and magnetic woman.”

Join Linda’s community of fans and learn more about her at her official website.

Linda Gray Sexton’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, January 17th:  Savvy Verse and Wit review

Monday, January 17th:  Savvy Verse and Wit – author interview

Tuesday, January 18th:  Life in Review

Wednesday, January 19th:  Regular Rumination

Thursday, January 20th:  Book Club Classics!

Monday, January 24th:  Necromancy Never Pays

Tuesday, January 25th:  Colloquium - review

Tuesday, January 25th:  Colloquium Guest Post

Wednesday, January 26th:  She is Too Fond of Books - Guest Post

Friday, January 28th:  Rundpinne

Monday, January 31st:  Boarding in My Forties

Wednesday, February 2nd:  The Bookworm

Wednesday, February 9th:  In the Next Room

Friday, February 11th:  Stuff as Dreams are Made On

Tuesday, February 15th:  Red Headed Book Child

Wednesday, February 16th:  Suko’s Notebook

Monday, June 6th:  She Reads and Reads

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Paperback: 226 pages

Publisher: HCI (November 2, 2009)

THE THERAPY CRISIS – Each year, millions of people enter therapy hoping and believing they’ll be helped—but studies show that many aren’t being helped. In fact, some patients find they are struggling with more emotional problems than before. Too many people end up stuck in therapy year after year, for no good reason at all.

THE REVOLUTION - Richard Zwolinski, a licensed mental health counselor and expert on anxiety and addiction, is a watchdog for professional ethics and patient rights. For more than twenty years he has been helping patients receive the best, most effective care for the least cost in a reasonable amount of time. In Therapy Revolution, Zwolinski puts the therapists on the couch and analyzes their performances. He exposes harmful therapy practices
and shows you exactly what you need to do to find a therapist who is ethical and competent. In this solution-oriented call to action, Zwolinski reveals:

• What some therapists don’t want you to know
• The 2 essential Therapy Tools that every effective therapist must use—
and why you should leave a therapist who refuses to use them
• How you can find, interview, and hire the therapist that’s right for you
• The red flags that indicate therapy isn’t working—and what you need to do
if a therapist breaks the rules
• The 5 fundamental ingredients in the Successful Therapy Formula

THE STEP-BY-STEP SOLUTION – Chock-full of shocking, real-life patient interviews, self-assessment questionnaires, numerous checklists that lead to therapy success, therapist interview questions, and more, Therapy Revolution exposes the pitfalls of bad therapy and shows you what good therapy should look like, all while offering practical solutions for making therapy work for you.

About the authors:

Richard M. Zwolinski, LMHC, is a nationally and internationally licensed psychotherapist and addiction specialist, who has been practicing therapy for more than twenty years. He is a New York State-licensed mental health counselor.

C.R. Zwolinski is a writer and editor.