Product Description
by Phd Lcsw Brenda Daly (Author)
God gave women the ability to create and nurture life. During pregnancy, a woman makes room in her mind, body, and heart for another person-one who requires love and support to survive. While these are noble qualities, giving too much can have negative effects.
In A Catholic Woman's Guide to Recovery from Codependence, Brenda Daly, PhD, LCSW, explores the dark side of a woman's natural tendency to nurture and support: a soul sickness known as codependence. In caring for an alcoholic partner, for example, a woman may shift imperceptibly from caregiver to enabler. Just as her partner comes to depend on alcohol, so can a woman depend on supporting her sick partner, forming a codependent relationship that benefits no one.
Daly writes that codependence often arises from a woman's low self-esteem-an obsession with external forces and a diminishment of the self. In her book, Daly uses scripture and meditations to help women escape the spiritual prison of codependence and turn their great capacity for love toward God-for to love God is to love oneself.
Author Biography
Brenda Daly, PhD, LCSW, has worked for more than three decades as a clinical social worker in a variety of settings. She has helped people cope with and recover from alcohol and drug addiction, eating disorders, anxiety, codependence, and other afflictions. A spiritual woman, she has also organized Catholic women's retreats and spoken at length about psychology and spirituality. Brenda lives in Folsom, California, and is married with three grown children and three grandchildren.
