May 23, 2020

CoDA Literature Description

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Updated August 22, 2024

BOOKS & WORKBOOKS

1. CoDA Book – Simply titled the CoDA Book, it contains in-depth readings on recovery, our Fellowship, common questions, and personal stories from codependents. Sometimes erroneously referred to as the CoDA Blue Book.
ELECTRONIC EDITION – CoDA Book

2. CoDA Blue Book – Abridged Version – In-depth readings on recovery, our Fellowship, and common questions, but without personal stories. This edition is the same as the pocket edition but with a larger print.

3. In This Moment Daily Meditation Book – Has a meditation for each day of the year, written by codependents for codependents. This book is the “printed in Canada” version. There are 2 meditations per page.
ELECTRONIC EDITION – In This Moment Daily Meditation Book

4. Growing Up In CoDA*NEW* Understanding our codependency by exploring, accepting, and healing our childhood injuries and losses.

5. Joy in the Journey: Recover With Color – A coloring book for codependents on our path towards recovery, using the steps, traditions, and promises.

6. The Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions Workbook – Takes the reader through the Steps and Traditions with a brief explanation followed by a series of questions. For individual or group study.
ELECTRONIC EDITION – The Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions Workbook

BOOKLETS

1. Building CoDA Community: Healthy Meetings Matter – An overview of what a healthy meeting might look like.
ELECTRONIC EDITION – Building CoDA Community: Healthy Meetings Matter
FREE DOWNLOAD – Building CoDA Community: Healthy Meetings Matter

2. Common Threads of Codependency – Codependents talk about codependency, recovery, relapse and authenticity.
ELECTRONIC EDITION – Common Threads of Codependency

3. Experiences with Crosstalk – Experience, strength, and hope in what crosstalk is and how some members deal with it.

4. Making Choices – Updated 2021 – Offers guidance in recognizing how to make choices that support our recovery. Explores codependent and healthy behaviours.
ELECTRONIC EDITION – Making Choices

5. Newcomers Handbook – Updated 2021 – A detailed description of the CoDA program.
ELECTRONIC EDITION – Newcomers Handbook

6. Peeling the Onion – Characteristics of codependents revisited – codependents look at love, sex, & relationship addiction and avoidance.

7. Prayers & Affirmations – Both the Prayers and Affirmation booklet bundled together. Perfect for a newcomer or birthday gift.

8. Sponsorship: What’s in it for Me? – Addresses both sides of sponsorship. Explains why we need sponsors and identifies some of the personal benefits gained from sponsoring others.

9. The Twelve Piece Relationship Toolkit – The purpose of this booklet is to serve as a companion to CoDA’s Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions Workbook in support of our Tradition Three, a desire for healthy and loving relationships.

10. Tools for Recovery – Members share experience, strength & hope with different tools useful in their recovery.

11. Traditionally Speaking: Finding Solutions – This booklet expands our understanding of CoDA’s Twelve Traditions. Members share their experience in applying the spiritual principles of CoDA meetings and service work to improve all their relationships: in CoDA, at home, at work, and everywhere.

12. Twelve Service Concepts – The Twelve Service Concepts in depth.
FREE DOWNLOAD – The Twelve Service Concepts

13. Twelve Steps Handbook – A detailed look at each of the Twelve Steps and how they apply to daily life.
ELECTRONIC EDITION – Twelve Steps Handbook

PAMPHLETS

1. Am I Codependent? – Lists the patterns and characteristics of codependency and The Twelve Promises. New! Extended version.

2. Attending Meetings – Explains how CoDA meetings work and how to participate.

3. Communications and Recovery– A look at old patterns of communication & how healthier communication can be learned.

4. Establishing Boundaries in Recovery – What are boundaries? This pamphlet explores different types of boundaries and offers guidance for establishing and maintaining them in a healthy way.

5. Information for Professionals – An introduction to Co-Dependents Anonymous for professionals. Ideal for counsellors, doctors, or other professionals working in the recovery field.

6. *NEW*Reparenting Our Inner ChildDiscovering and embracing our inner child can help heal old hurts and pain. This pamphlet discusses ways to discover the child within and nurture the inner child.

7. Sponsorship in CoDA – An overview of the principles of sponsorship.

8. Step Pamphlets One to Twelve – Set of 12 pamphlets. Step one through to twelve.

9. Using the Twelve Traditions – The Twelve Traditions explained.

10. Welcome to Co-Dependents Anonymous – Includes the CoDA Welcome and the Twelve Steps. Perfect for the newcomer.

11. What is CoDA? An Introduction – Features a basic list of characteristics for self-evaluation.

12. What is Codependency? A Checklist – A checklist of characteristics, behaviours, and attitudes that might be helpful. e.g. I must be “needed” in order to have a relationship with others.

13. Your First Meeting – A pamphlet for clients of professionals and new members.

14. FREE DOWNLOAD – All Pamphlets above (scroll to Tab #4)

OTHER RESOURCES

  • CoDA Fellowship Forum – These are Forums (similar to podcasts) that take place on Zoom on the last Saturday of each month and occasional mid-month weekends.  The content consists of 1 or more speakers discussing a variety of CoDA related topics. 

  • The Forums are recorded and can be found HERE.  

  • To receive email reminders of upcoming Forums please sign up HERE OR send an email to [email protected].