Sonderbooks Book Review of

The Language of Letting Go

by Melody Beattie

The Language of Letting Go

by Melody Beattie

Review posted March 8, 2010.
Hazelden, 1990. 393 pages.
Starred Review
Sonderbooks Stand-out 2009: #6 Other Nonfiction

The Language of Letting Go is a collection of 365 daily meditations about letting go and giving up codependency. There's all kinds of wisdom and good thoughts here. You can tell how powerfully it spoke to me because selections from it appear over and over again on my Sonderquotes blog.

I bought this book in May 2008. I started on the date when I bought it and read through the whole year, then started at the beginning and finished out 2009. Now that I'm in 2010, I've bought two other books of meditations by Melody Beattie, More Language of Letting Go and Journey of the Heart. So I decided to give this book a rest, but I hope that shows how much I liked it, how often I'd find just the bit of wisdom I needed for that particular day.