A Daily Support

Discussing Melody Beattie’s fantastic daily touchstone, The Language of Letting Go, is probably the only time I will ever say these words: The book is amazing, but I’d almost recommend getting the app instead?!?!?!

As a someone with fairly incendiary ADHD, myself, I tend to scrupulously avoid any alerts on my smart phone save for a wake up alarm and I’m even nerdy enough to be considering an old fashioned alarm clock to dispense with that exception.

An additional exception, however, that I am — and will ever remain — happy to make is the Language of Letting Go app, which pings me each day around 10am with that day’s reading.

As pictured above, I do own a copy of the book which sits on my bedside table. It has sat there for a few years. I pick it up from time to time and always enjoy what I read, but the engagement has always been sporadic at best. Since learning of the app from a client, I’d say that there is rarely a day that goes by that I do not read its short reflection.

Entries vary from reflections, to practical insights, to affirmations and highlight ideas like setting boundaries, detaching with love, genuinely taking care of oneself, fostering emotional balance, and letting go of unhealthy patterns, to name a few.

Beattie has long been known for extensive work with Codependency and this, along with her other books, will often be found in Al-Anon, CODA and other 12-step circles.

I’ll note however that one needn’t take part in any of those programs or even believe yourself to be necessarily codependent to derive a great deal of daily support and wisdom from this book.

Human relationships are downright complicated and unless you’ve been off-grid living in total isolation for years, chances are there are some places where you are bumping into others that might cause a headache or two. If that’s the case, then you might be likely to find a handful of helpful thoughts in here.