Rapha's 12-Step Program for Overcoming Codependency

by Pat Springle

Book Overview

This book is written very well. With the 12-step program it will help you identify your emotional make-up and help you to understand where you are going wrong in relationships. This book will help you... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945276141
• ISBN13: 9780945276142
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Rapha Publishing
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.3" x 10.7"

Customer Reviews

Rapha 12 step program for overcoming codependancy

This book is a gem.Very clearly written.It honestly helps you understand how you ended up with the emotional make up you have .Helps you understand what you can change totally.Also what you can get beyond, though still have memories that dont have to cripple your life in a negative way any more.You do not have to have come from an alcoholic family to glean from this book.Many families are set up emotionally in this damaging scenario Of one strong over riding and/or detached parent and those who dance emotionally around them.Also includes biblical principles that are applicable to christian and non. I highly recommend it.

God Will Provide

I been through various addictions and recovery through them and have tried all kinds of "Self-Help" books. These books and whatever WE PAY this MONEY for only lead to a change in the mind and thought, but we (the majority of us) don't really see any difference in our daily lives and the things we struggle with. Through this process, I have come to learn one thing. ONLY GOD CAN CHANGE US. We just need to let Him. I have tried Rapha's 12-Steps for Overcoming Codependency and, through his writings, have learned to focus on what God wants with me, not what I think I want. I highly recommend anything from Springle. He is an excellent author and not out to gain notoriety or get rich through our difficulties. He is a man after God's heart and does a good job leading us away from ourselves and toward a much higher goal. Another book I highly recommend is a new publication and is titled SHAM. In this book, the author focuses on the reasons behind all these "Self-Help" Gurus who pretend to know THE WAY to our hearts when these people are actually after our wallets.

Can change your life if you are ready for it!

At a point in my life, when I was hopeless and depressed, I began attending a Rapha 12-step codependency meeting. I had been in so many relationships through out my life and they all ended the same - in heartache!! I couldn't understand it, I gave and gave and could never do enough. I bought this book and worked along in a workbook which is available also. I thought this book was written about me!! I had finally found what was wrong with me! I was codependent! This book offered great insights. I could understand why I was the way I was. I was a people-pleaser and put everyone else before me. My self-worth depended on what other people (mere humans!) thought of me. If they were happy-I was, but let them be upset and I was depressed. I realized that God was the only person who could love me unconditionally and for who I am. What better source for self-esteem is there than that? Recovery is like peeling an onion. There are many layers of pain and sadness. I knew that once I dealt with that pain, I would be free of it. I would be the person I had never been before. It was very exciting. I have also read "Search for Significance" and "Forgiving Your Parents - Forgiving Yourself". I'm sure that all books by Pat Springle and Robert McGee are wonderful and one day I will get around to reading them all.