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.

Read by the author. Author, speaker, and addiction recovery expert Caroline Beidler offers friends and family members the gift of being able to understand the recovery lifestyle--a way of life that goes beyond anonymous meetings in church basements and fosters a sense of well-being, healthy...

Are you trapped in a relationship that hurts more than it heals—yet you still can’t walk away? You know they’re not good for you. You’ve cried, questioned, and convinced yourself to leave… yet something always pulls you back. This isn’t love. This is emotional addiction—and it’s not your fault. In You’re Not Addicted to Them. You’re Addicted to the Pain, Lena Hartley gently untangles the roots of trauma bonding, revealing why so many strong, self-aware women find themselves stuck in cycles of hurt, hope, and heartbreak. This isn’t just a book about letting go. It’s a...

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.

This updated Love, Infidelity and Sexual Addiction: A Codependent's Perspective- With Cybersex Addiction is an honest sharing of a trust betrayed. It chronicles the author's personal experiences with a sexually addicted spouse as well as stories of others in recovery from co-addiction. This book offers hope and healing to those who have suffered from repeated betrayal. First, it explains the cycle of sexual addiction: the compulsive use of multiple affairs, pornography, or cybersex. When the author, who suffered through repeated infidelities, learned about sexual addiction, she discovered ...

In this expanded third edition, Brenda Schaeffer draws on years of feedback and new developments to foster an understanding of love addiction: what it is and what it is not, how to identify it, and, even more important, how to break free of it. Stories of real people struggling to develop sound relationships illustrate the characteristics of healthy love and help listeners to free themselves to find real intimacy.

Severing a cherished relationship is one of the most painful experiences in life - and cutting those emotional ties to a loved one can feel almost like ending an addiction. Up till now, people recovering from other problems were able to get real help - like AA and rehab - while those struggling in the aftermath of traumatic breaks dealt with platitudes and friends insisting they should "get over it already". But now Exaholics Anonymous treats getting over an ex like kicking a chemical habit.

💡 What if the chaos in your relationships wasn’t your fault , but the imprint of a survival pattern you were never taught to heal? If you feel torn between craving love and pushing it away… If you cycle through emotional highs and lows in your relationships… If you’ve ever said, “Why do I always sabotage the good ones?”, this book is for you. In Disorganized Attachment: You Are Not Broken, you'll discover how disorganized attachment forms in childhood and plays out in adulthood — and how to finally break the cycle. Drawing on decades of clinical experience, the author — a...

Meg Wilson watched her world fall apart when her husband confessed years of sexual addiction. She has an intimate knowledge of all you may have felt-and she's lived to tell about it. With honesty and hopefulness, Meg uses her own story, along with other examples and Scripture, to help women cope and find their way out of the darkness of their husbands' sexual compulsions. She wants you to know that God's first concern is for your relationship with Him - not your circumstances.

Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor", a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism, but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it.

Do you ever feel like different "parts" of you are constantly pulling in opposite directions—an inner critic that won't quiet down, an anxious voice that keeps you on edge, or a wounded inner child that longs to be seen and cared for? You are not broken. You are not alone. What you're experiencing is your internal family system—and learning to understand and work with your inner family members (or parts) is the key to helping you move from inner chaos to clarity, calm, and confidence. 👉 The Internal Family Systems Workbook is a trauma-informed guide designed for beginners who want to...

We are all vulnerable to addiction. Whether it’s a compulsion to constantly check social media, binge eating, smoking, excessive drinking, or any other behaviors, we may find ourselves uncontrollably repeating. Why are bad habits so hard to overcome? Is there a key to conquering the cravings we know are unhealthy for us? This book provides groundbreaking answers to the most important questions about addiction.

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.

Break free from love addiction and rebuild un-shakeable self-worth—at a pace that actually sticks. Are you exhausted from obsessing over an ex, dreading nights alone, or slipping back into toxic relationships that leave you feeling ashamed or empty? You’re not broken—and you’re definitely not alone. Love addiction and codependency can affect anyone, regardless of age, gender, or relationship style. Love Addiction Detox is your compassionate, evidence-based guide to permanent change. Clear, non-judgmental definitions – Understand love addiction, codependency, and attachment styles...

I Love You, More offers insight into the various perspectives and experiences of family members who have dealt with the harrowing disease of addiction. The goal of this quick, accessible book is to be the conduit that allows you to enter the body and mind of a substance abuser and their family, to see the world through their eyes as they navigate their way through one of the most heart-breaking and gut-wrenching hardships they will ever face.

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.

Following the success of his New York Times bestselling memoir Stories I Only Tell My Friends, acclaimed actor Rob Lowe returns with Love Life—a funny, heartfelt, and deeply personal collection of stories that “invites readers into his world with easy charm and disarming frankness” (Kirkus...

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...

Sex is at the core of our identities. And when it becomes a compulsion, it can unravel our lives. Out of the Shadows is the premier work on this disorder, written by a pioneer in its treatment. Revised and updated to include the latest research - and to address the exploding phenomenon of cybersex addiction - this third edition identifies the danger signs, explains the dynamics, and describes the consequences of sexual addiction and dependency.