{"id":23513,"date":"2025-03-07T20:51:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T21:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23513"},"modified":"2025-03-07T22:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T22:26:15","slug":"melody-beattie-author-of-a-self-help-best-seller-dies-at-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23513","title":{"rendered":"Melody Beattie, Author of a Self-Help Best Seller, Dies at 76"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Her \u201cCodependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself,\u201d a guide to shedding toxic relationships, has sold more than seven million copies.<\/p>\n

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Melody Beattie<\/a>, whose experiences as a drug addict, a chemical dependency counselor and the wife of an alcoholic informed a best-selling book about codependence that has guided countless people to shed toxic relationships, died on Feb. 27 in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. She was 76.<\/p>\n

Her daughter, Nichole Beattie, said the cause was heart failure. She had been hospitalized from Nov. 30 to Dec. 12, then evacuated from her home in Malibu because of a wildfire and moved into her daughter\u2019s home, where she died.<\/p>\n

By popularizing the concept of codependence, Ms. Beattie (pronounced BEE-tee) became a literary star in the self-help world with \u201cCodependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Star Caring for Yourself\u201d (1986), which has sold more than seven million copies worldwide.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could call her the mother of the self-help genre,\u201d said Nicole Dewey, the publishing director of Spiegel & Grau, which has sold more than 400,000 copies of the book since taking over publication in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Trysh Travis, the author of \u201cThe Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement From Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey\u201d (2009), said in an interview that \u201cCodependent No More\u201d has succeeded because of Ms. Beattie\u2019s common-sense approach and \u201cvernacular charm.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cThere had been other books and pamphlets published in the recovery space in the early 1980s. Melody made the same arguments, but her voice came across very clearly. It wasn\u2019t clinical \u2014 and she had a set of ideas that could be applied to many if not all the problems one was having \u2014 and it hit the market at the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Her \u201cCodependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself,\u201d a guide to shedding toxic relationships, has sold more than seven million copies.Melody Beattie, whose experiences as a drug addict, a chemical dependency counselor and the wife of an alcoholic informed a best-selling book about codependence that has guided countless people to shed toxic relationships, died on Feb. 27 in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. She was 76.Her daughter, Nichole Beattie, said the cause was heart failure. She had been hospitalized from Nov. 30 to Dec. 12, then evacuated from her home in Malibu because of a wildfire and moved into her daughter\u2019s home, where she died.By popularizing the concept of codependence, Ms. Beattie (pronounced BEE-tee) became a literary star in the self-help world with \u201cCodependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Star Caring for Yourself\u201d (1986), which has sold more than seven million copies worldwide.\u201cYou could call her the mother of the self-help genre,\u201d said Nicole Dewey, the publishing director of Spiegel & Grau, which has sold more than 400,000 copies of the book since taking over publication in 2022.Trysh Travis, the author of \u201cThe Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement From Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey\u201d (2009), said in an interview that \u201cCodependent No More\u201d has succeeded because of Ms. Beattie\u2019s common-sense approach and \u201cvernacular charm.\u201dShe added: \u201cThere had been other books and pamphlets published in the recovery space in the early 1980s. Melody made the same arguments, but her voice came across very clearly. It wasn\u2019t clinical \u2014 and she had a set of ideas that could be applied to many if not all the problems one was having \u2014 and it hit the market at the right time.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23515,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23516,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23513\/revisions\/23516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}