Post by Susan Peabody on Jan 3, 2008 22:21:22 GMT -8
A checklist for newcomers . . .
1. Courageously face the truth that you are a love addict.
2. Take responsibility for this even if your love addiction stems from inadequate parenting.
3. Get help (therapy and support groups).
4. Learn everything you can about love addiction.
5. Tell your story. Get in touch with what has to be changed (values, thoughts, behavior).
6. Heal the wounds of your childhood trauma by processing what happened with an enlightened witness.
7. Learn to love yourself and build your self-esteem.
8. Embrace a spiritual life. Fill your hungry heart with a new kind of love.
9. Put romantic love into perspective. It is not a life or death matter.
10. Change how you think about love and relationships.
11. Change how you behave in relationships.
12. Based on your inventory, re-think the kind of person you choose to be with.
13. Work the twelve steps of recovery.
14. Help others. To keep it you must give it away.
1. Courageously face the truth that you are a love addict.
2. Take responsibility for this even if your love addiction stems from inadequate parenting.
3. Get help (therapy and support groups).
4. Learn everything you can about love addiction.
5. Tell your story. Get in touch with what has to be changed (values, thoughts, behavior).
6. Heal the wounds of your childhood trauma by processing what happened with an enlightened witness.
7. Learn to love yourself and build your self-esteem.
8. Embrace a spiritual life. Fill your hungry heart with a new kind of love.
9. Put romantic love into perspective. It is not a life or death matter.
10. Change how you think about love and relationships.
11. Change how you behave in relationships.
12. Based on your inventory, re-think the kind of person you choose to be with.
13. Work the twelve steps of recovery.
14. Help others. To keep it you must give it away.
