In an article in the New York Times on February 28th Tara Parker-Pope asks “do you treat yourself as well as you treat your friends and family?” The subject of the article is a burgeoning field of psychological research on self-compassion. This is a concept that is just leaking into the mainstream, but it has been a cornerstone of the recovery world for decades. And one of the most important people who awakened a generation to the idea that taking care of ourselves was actually a better way to help others was Melody Beattie with her ground breaking book Codependent No More. This year Hazel
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