Love Addiction Recovery

Through 12-step work, exercises, and journal-keeping, Facing Love Addiction compassionately and realistically outlines the recovery process for love addicts. Mellody’s fresh perspective and clear methods work to comfort and motivate all those looking to establish and maintain healthy, happy relationships.

Are you prepared to overcome your addiction to porn with a dash of traditional wisdom? "The Stoic's Guide to Quit Porn Addiction: Techniques Based on Stoicism on How to Quit the Habit of Masturbating & Other Forms of Sexual & Love Addictions" is a unique work written by Jack Hart. This book isn't like other self-help titles. Jack upends the status quo by introducing the Stoic philosophy—which originated in ancient Greece and Rome—into the midst of the contemporary addiction crisis.

Why is this happening? How do you care for yourself and your family? If you are struggling with a loved one’s addiction you are not alone. A compassionate resource for anyone stuck between a rock and a hard place.

This book introduces the philosophies, research, and lived experience behind Parallel Recovery®, which is not a “step” program like traditional models, but a practical and deeply human path to healing for the whole family.

In Addiction to Love, recovering love addict Susan Peabody explains the variety of ways this disorder plays out, from the obsessively doting love addict to the addict who can't disentangle from an unfulfilling, dead-end relationship. Peabody provides an in-depth and easy-to-follow recovery program for those suffering from this unhealthy and often dangerous addiction and explains how to create a loving, safe, and fulfilling relationship.

In this powerful memoir of addiction, prison, and recovery, a reporter and a photographer tell their gripping story of falling in love, the heroin habit that drove them apart, and the unlikely way a criminal conviction brought them back together. Books for a Better Life Award Finalist LitHub...

Love addiction for lesbians comes in many forms. Some struggle by sexually acting out and others are serial relationship junkies, jumping from one relationship into the next. Some are addicted to the high of falling in love and once that wears off don't know how to handle the day-to-day realities of a committed relationship. Some are even addicted to fantasy and intrigue, while others are love avoidants and sexual anorexics. Love avoidants may be able to get into a relationship but once they are fully committed, struggle with feeling smothered.

Break free from addiction and embrace a life of recovery and healing, even if you've felt trapped for years. Are you struggling with the weight of addiction, feeling isolated and overwhelmed by cravings? Or perhaps you're a loved one, watching someone dear to you battle their addiction, desperately seeking ways to support them? Does the fear of relapse haunt you, making every step forward feel uncertain? You are not alone. Many individuals, just like you, have faced these challenges and found their way to a brighter future.

The Twelve Step Affirmations for Recovery from Love Addiction are here to support you on your journey to emotional sobriety in your 12-step program for love addiction. Need uplifting support on your journey to heal from obsessing about love? Feeling hopeless, uncertain or anxious, and need uplifting mental support? Need a way to replace disempowering thoughts with empowering ones?

Here is a groundbreaking work by the nation's leading professional expert on sexual addiction, based on the candid testimony of more than one thousand recovering sexual addicts in the first major scientific study of the disorder.

Temptation has quickly turned into addiction. Penny Taylor fell hard for the sexy, mysterious, exciting, and dangerous Professor Hunter. But scandalous affairs are meant to go down in flames. Now that he's not speaking to her, she feels numb. And what hurts the most is that he appears to be completely fine. As she struggles to accept that their relationship is really over, her best friend's crude advice is in the back of her mind - the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else.

This book is for anyone, whether they are sober-curious, already sober or considering becoming sober. Broken into four parts, you will discover how to: understand your relationship with alcohol, including grey-area drinking; use the full sober toolkit to help you build and sustain your sober life; stay sober, particularly on high days and holidays, and rediscover who you are without alcohol; and fine-tune your toolkit to make it perfect for you and your new life.

The number of affordable, easy links to pleasurable sexual online content is on the rise. Activity increases with the accessibility of technology. So, too, has sex addiction. People struggling with sex, porn, and love addiction typically have little understanding of this incredibly complicated disease. Sex Addiction 101 covers everything from what sexual addiction is and how it can best be treated to how it affects various subgroups of the population such as women, gays, and teenagers.

Addiction is a subject which straddles public and personal interests; societal and criminal justice concerns; and family, social, and medical responses. It is a continuing area of uncertainty and concern for society and professionals trained in the field. This Very Short Introduction presents the basic facts about addiction: what it is, how and why it develops, how it is treated, and how society can respond to it.

MDMA, often called Ecstasy or Molly, is an amazing medicine for treating everything from PTSD to anxiety and depression. This therapy has been proven to help thousands of people successfully heal from trauma, restore love in their relationships, and overcome their psychological challenges.

A standard-setting book on intervention, Love First has helped tens of thousands of families, friends, and professionals create a loving and effective plan for helping those who suffer from addiction. This revised and expanded edition adds to the core material in this classic book with the most up-to-date scientific information and new intervention techniques for alcohol and other drug addictions.

For readers of Find Your People and How to Know a Person comes a transformational roadmap for healing existential loneliness from creator and host of the top-rated podcast The Life Stylist exploring how to break the cycle of separation at its source. We are living in a loneliness epidemic...

Want a way to reduce anxiety, manage stress, regain hope, and have emotional support for every area of life? Then this five-in-one series compilation is for you.

I was a desperate love addict searching for love in all the wrong places. I was only attracted to unavailable men. I was miserable and switching from one addiction to the next. It finally came to a head when, as a marriage and family therapist trainee, I became romantically involved with a client. He told on me, and as a result, I was expelled from my master’s program. I hit rock bottom. I turned to God and worked the 12 steps of recovery.

The last time David Magee saw his son alive, William told him to write their family’s story in the hopes of helping others. Days later, David found William dead from an accidental drug overdose. Now, in a memoir suggestive of Augusten Burroughs meets Glennon Doyle, award-winning columnist and author David Magee answers his son's wish with a compelling, heartbreaking, and impossible to pause book that speaks to every individual and family.