Love Addiction & Codependency Books


Facing Love Addiction: Giving Yourself the Power to Change the Way You Love by Pia Mellody
This book by Pia Mellody, internationally recognized dependence and addiction authority, lucidly unravels the intricate dynamics of unhealthy love relationships, the debilitating ‘toxic’ patterns played out by love addicts and the unresponsive love avoidants to whom they are painfully and repeatedly drawn and shows us how to let go of toxic love.

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Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives by Pia Mellody
Pia Mellody creates a framework for identifying codependent thinking, emotions and behaviour and provides an effective approach to recovery. Mellody sets forth five primary adult symptoms of this crippling condition, then traces their origin to emotional, spiritual, intellectual, physical and sexual abuses that occur in childhood. Central to Mellody’s approach is the concept that the codependent adult’s injured inner child needs healing. Recovery from codependence, therefore, involves clearing up the toxic emotions left over from these painful childhood experiences.

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