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 Hazelden Publishing is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Beattie’s book with an updated edition of Codependent No More and a new book, the CODEPENDENT NO MORE WORKBOOK.