Toksyczne zwiazki pia mellody biography

Note: This article was originally published in the Spring 2007 edition of Cutting Edge, the online newsletter of The Meadows.

By John Bradshaw, MA

Pia Mellody joins the company of those who have created highly effective therapeutic models and who can put their theories into practice with unusual skill.

Pia’s approach is phenomenological, resulting from her own painful struggle with codependency, as well as from thousands of hours spent interviewing and working out healing strategies with patients at The Meadows. Pia began her unique journey as the head of nursing at The Meadows.

In her early days, she suffered from low self-esteem, unhealthy shame, and a hyper-vigilance that accompanied her need to be perfect in every aspect of her work and life. She lived in that lonely place of non-intimacy, polarization, and silent anger that most codependents experience.

Pia decided to get some help for her problems at another treatment facil