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Who wants to know about love addiction? Nobody? Wrong. Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat Pray Love) has just blown a door open into understanding powerlessness around achieving love when addiction is involved.
Get ready to dive into all you need to know about love addiction. We’ve been doing this a while (read two decades), digging out the gold of recovery from every place we could find it.
Our aim is to elucidate how excruciating love addiction is, what it is, how to know if you have got it, how it can explain why love won’t work for you. How to find the way out of love addiction and how to best equip yourself to find real, genuine and lasting love. Love addiction recovery is not easy, but it is possible. With the right understanding and information and supports, you can find your way out. If we are doing it, you can do it too.
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SUPPORT SUPPORT SUPPORT... One of the key things to have at the beginning of recovery.
Love addiction thrives in isolation.. Recovery NEEDS and wants support.
Heightened states. Chaotic feelings. Fear and Isolation. Withdrawal.
These are real feelings when a relationship dissolves or breaks in love addiction. Physical, mental, and emotional safety is a non negotiable at the beginning of your love addiction recovery.
What do we as love addicts get into a relationship with an avoidant when we are so different. One of the most common questions in therapy. Why do I keep picking an avoidant, or am I attracted to them? Really beginning to understand is one of the key pieces of information to begin and continue on your love addiction recovery path.
What are you surrendering or "giving up" in love addiction recovery? Process addictions can be harder to understand than the recovery from substance addictions. We cannot give up love. Understanding what we are being asked to surrender in love addiction recovery is so important in early recovery and withdrawal.
Knowing the difference between codependency and love addiction is key to getting your full love addiction recovery. Here we talk about the differences between love addiction and codependence and common reasons why the two get mixed up together. How do you know the difference between love addiction and codependence? Does having one mean you have the other? So often love addiction is "lumped in" with codependence for many reasons, but the real reality is they are two very different terms and experiences.
Obsessing and being obsessed with the "person of choice" is one of the main hallmarks of active love addiction. One of the most painful experiences of the addiction. Understanding what obsession is, why it happens and where it comes from is a vital part of getting your love addiction recovery.
Getting your love addiction recovery in this time of "tech" can sometimes feel like it is different to "old school" recovery where tech played little or no part in day to day life. Knowing and understanding how some symptoms of love addiction have shifted from "real life" to our lives "online" and behaviors online is vitally important. Get to know how you can get your full love addiction recovery and the love that you so want and deserve no matter what age you are or whether you are generation tech or generation old school.
If you have ever wondered whether you are a love addict or avoidant, or maybe both, you are not alone. This is one of the most confusing and most important questions in love addiction and relationship recovery. And in this episode, we answer it honestly. We talk about why they can be easy to confuse, and how to start identifying which pattern is really running your relationships and love.
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