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Childhood Stories – The Lovely Addict
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Types of Love Addicts. My journey from love addiction to health and happiness. 8212;—————. 8212;———————–. Was when I was about 13, just after my brother moved out. Was I trying to further escape what was happening by replacing him and focusing on someone else? You can’t help but think so when you look at the timeline. This “fantasy love” lasted four years, even though he only ever once said Hello to me. 8212;—————–. 8212;———–. My memories of my mother were that she was very stressed out, trying to please...
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The Break-Up Journal – The Lovely Addict
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Types of Love Addicts. My journey from love addiction to health and happiness. So, I’ve created a new body of work called The Break-Up Journal. Many of you, throughout the years, have asked me how I recovered and what happened, and so, instead of “telling” I am showing. What are you an idiot? Don’t you see? Fortunately that girl is long gone, but her story remains, and hopefully it can and will add insight into your own struggle with love addiction. Be sure to check out the About the blog. July 21, 2015.
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Want versus need – The Lovely Addict
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Types of Love Addicts. My journey from love addiction to health and happiness. Part of the recovery process for any addiction is grappling with what we want versus what we need. We may want the donut, but we need the apple. We may want the bad boy, but we need the nice guy. And this is a very hard emotional trigger to overcome. It requires a level of maturity that we previously never had, as well as a complete overhaul in thinking. I’m sure you’ve heard people say, It’s better to spend money today than s...
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Healthy is a culture – The Lovely Addict
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Types of Love Addicts. My journey from love addiction to health and happiness. Healthy is a culture. Surround yourself with healthy activities and people. Figure out a way to improve your environment so that your environment is a healthier one. June 13, 2015. Are your needs being met? 2 thoughts on “Healthy is a culture”. June 14, 2015 at 2:43 pm. Reblogged this on Big and Beautiful Ladies. How can we redefine ourselves as women in the here and now? This blog explores that question and others…. Sian macd...
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Reading List – The Lovely Addict
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Types of Love Addicts. My journey from love addiction to health and happiness. For years, I laughed at self-help books. Who ever reads those silly things. I thought. And then, when my life was on the brink of total disaster, I picked one up and it changed me. Don’t shoot the messenger. You’re looking for answers and some of them may be found here. I highly recommended them all. How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny! The power of thinking, without thinking.
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Term glossary – The Lovely Addict
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Types of Love Addicts. My journey from love addiction to health and happiness. Below are some abbreviations I use a lot on this blog and so I’ve listed them here:. D= the wonderful guy I am with now, and with whom I live. We have been dating since January 15, 2009. G= my old “person of addiction” with whom I am no longer addicted, but am still friendly, when we bump into eachother from time to time. He is also the G in the Love Addict documentary. HP = Higher Power (God, in my case). Hello LovelyjuneR...
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Are your needs being met? – The Lovely Addict
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Types of Love Addicts. My journey from love addiction to health and happiness. Are your needs being met? All the self-help books tell you you have to meet your own needs. And while, for the most part, that is true, it’s not entirely true. If I break my leg and get rushed to the ER, there better be a team of competent doctors there to meet my needs because heck if I have to operate on myself. YOU are responsible for meeting your basic needs. YOU are responsible for meeting your higher needs. Higher educat...
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Sex addicts, avoidants and narcissists, oh my! – The Lovely Addict
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Types of Love Addicts. My journey from love addiction to health and happiness. Sex addicts, avoidants and narcissists, oh my! There’s a reason love addicts are attracted to sex addicts, avoidants and narcissistic types. What do all these types all have in common? They offer very little in the way of true intimacy, and that, my friends, is something a love addict cannot handle either. If I crave an ice cream cone, why on earth would I go to find it at the hardware store? July 24, 2015. Whoa First time com...
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Feeling hopeless? – The Lovely Addict
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Types of Love Addicts. My journey from love addiction to health and happiness. On the LAA boards today, someone posted the following cry for help: HOW exactly do I change, get well? 1 Face yourself and accept yourself, as is. Not who you’d like to be, or who you envision yourself to be. Or even who your parents envisioned you to be. Or who the last or next PoA wishes you’d be! 2 Face your fears. 3 Know that there are two energies at work inside you. Or, I don’t feel well, but I need to go to work. In my ...
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Tips – The Lovely Addict
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Types of Love Addicts. My journey from love addiction to health and happiness. Love addiction overlaps quite obviously with other addictions. Here’s 101 ways to help you get through NC and strengthen your recovery! From: “ Addiction-Free Naturally:. Liberating Yourself from Sugar, Caffeine, Food Addictions, Tobacco, Alcohol, Prescription Drugs” by Brigitte Mars. 1 Encourage spirituality in your life. 2 Treat all living things as spiritual beings. 3 Live life as a prayer. 10 Keep your living space clean.
