{"id":1071,"date":"2010-01-18T00:13:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T04:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2010-03-09T00:43:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T04:43:08","slug":"review-of-the-language-of-letting-go-by-melody-beattie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=1071","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Language of Letting Go, by Melody Beattie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/language_of_letting_go.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/language_of_letting_go.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"language_of_letting_go\" width=\"104\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1072\" \/><\/a><em>The Language of Letting Go<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Melody Beattie<\/p>\n<p>Hazelden, 1990.  393 pages.<br \/>\nStarred Review<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Standouts2010.html\">Sonderbooks Stand-out 2010<\/a>: #6 Other Nonfiction<\/p>\n<p><em>The Language of Letting Go<\/em> is a collection of 365 daily meditations about letting go and giving up codependency.  There&#8217;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 <a href=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?s=language+of+letting+go\">Sonderquotes<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;m in 2010, I&#8217;ve bought two other books of meditations by Melody Beattie, <em>More Language of Letting Go<\/em> and <em>Journey of the Heart.<\/em>  So I decided to give this book a rest, but I hope that shows how much I liked it, how often I&#8217;d find just the bit of wisdom I needed for that particular day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0894866370\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/language_of_letting_go.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/language_of_letting_go.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie Hazelden, 1990. 393 pages. Starred Review Sonderbooks Stand-out 2010: #6 Other Nonfiction The Language of Letting Go is a collection of 365 daily meditations about letting go and giving up codependency. There&#8217;s all kinds of wisdom and good thoughts here. You can tell how powerfully it spoke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,31,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction-review","category-personal-growth","category-stand-outs","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}