Easy-to-read and follow with a visually appealing format.Based on the author's vast personal experience, as well as her more than three decades of clinical experience assisting both women and men with relationship challenges.Enhanced by her professional background as a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Substance Abuse Treatment Practitioner, this book approaches the issues of relationship over-involvement and codependency in a unique way, combining contemporary counseling...
In this fun, inviting look at a serious topic—codependence—Nancy L. Johnston shares the life lessons she learned from her observations of the relationship behaviors exhibited by her pet collie, Daisy: «The book began by my noticing behaviors in Daisy that resemble the codependent behaviors in me, which I have been working to moderate through my recovery. Daily I am struck by our tendencies to attend to others, to herd, to overreact.» Johnston's delightful book examines...