Jordan Regan's Reviews > The New Codependency: Help and Guidance for Today's Generation

Melody Beattie is her own unique individual, with her own worldview. She has great thoughts on universal things in this life, and she also has her own take on recovery and growth, which for her, uses quite a bit of faith and spirituality. For those who are not so inclined, I could see you being allergic to large swathes of this book. However, if you are able to either stomach it due to acceptance of a wide range of belief systems OR if you're able to replace God with "the universe" or "the way the world is", I think you'll be just fine.

She's also part of a generation where 12 step programs helped a lot of people. Once again, the point isn't specifically 12 step programs, it's about getting help from folks who are trying to tackle so many of our problems, addictions, obsessions, bad coping mechanisms, and giant feelings directly.

She speaks directly to a myriad of concepts and speaks her truth to them. Her truth, from what I can tell, ranges from okay/fine/not necessarily applicable to me to holy smokes/this is cutting edge/this is exactly what I needed to read right now. This book is lighter on content and heavier on slightly paradoxical wisdom, but when the wisdom shines though, it's very bright. Absolutely read her first book first, this book would not be too accessible without it.