The Love Addiction Workbook (Coping with Behavioral Addictions) - Softcover

Ester RA Leutenberg; John J Liptak

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570253714 ISBN 13: 9781570253713

Publisher: Whole Person Associates, Inc, 2022

Synopsis

Love Addiction

The purpose of The Love Addiction Workbook is to provide helping professionals with cognitive and behavioral assessments, tools, and exercises that can be utilized to treat the root psychological causes of a love addiction. It is designed to help people identify and change negative, unhealthy thoughts and behaviors that may have led to a love addiction. The activities contained in this workbook can help participants identify their triggers that can lead to an addiction to love and teach them ways to overcome and manage those triggers.

The Love Addiction Workbook will help participants to achieve the following:

• Understand recurring patterns that indicate a love addiction.
• Recognize that they are experiencing a love addiction problem.
• Reflect upon the behaviors that were part of and arose from the addiction.
• Build self-esteem and self-love so they are not so dependent on other people.
• Develop greater self-acceptance and the ability to change ineffective behaviors.
• Understand the triggers for preoccupation with finding the "perfect" person to make their life whole.
• Learn ways to live a new life without the need to obsess about finding a romantic partner to "fix" their life.

The Love Addiction Workbook is a practical tool for teachers, counselors, and helping professionals in their work with people suffering from behavioral addictions. Depending on the person's role using this workbook and the specific needs of the groups or individuals, the modules can be used individually or as part of an integrated curriculum. The facilitator may choose to administer one of the activities to a group or administer some of the assessments over one or more days as a workshop.

This workbook contains five separate modules of activity-based handouts that will help participants learn more about themselves and their love addiction. These modules serve as avenues for self-reflection and group experiences revolving around topics of importance in the lives of the participants in the group.

The activities in this workbook are user-friendly and varied to provide a comprehensive way of analyzing, strengthening, and developing characteristics, skills, and attitudes for overcoming an addiction to love.

The activities and handouts in this workbook are reproducible. Minor revisions to suit client or group needs are permitted, but the copyright statement must be retained.

Love Addiction Modules

Module 1: Self-Esteem

Helps participants become aware of and explore how their self-esteem is tied to their search for relationships to fill voids in their concept of self. Participants will understand the positive and negative self-evaluations they make and provide exercises for enhancing self-esteem.

Module 2: Fear of Being Alone

Helps participants explore how their fear of being alone (autophobia) is affecting their lives and relationships. Often people who are addicted to love get involved in relationships because they are afraid of being alone.

Module 3: Codependency

Helps participants examine codependency as a learned behavior based on an emotional and behavioral condition that affects an individual's ability to have a healthy, mutually satisfying relationship.

Module 4: Love Addiction Costs

Helps participants realize the ways they are preoccupied, to the point of obsession with falling or being in love, and how they tend to behave in highly regrettable ways.

Module 5: Love Yourself

Helps participants discover ways they are so busy trying to find the perfect partner, or trying to stay in a relationship, that they do not take the time to accept themselves.

About this title

About the Author

Ester R.A. Leutenberg has worked in the mental health field for many years as a publisher, author, and advocate for those suffering from loss. She personally experienced a devastating loss when her son Mitchell, after struggling with a mental illness for eight years, died by suicide in 1986. Soon after, as a way of both healing and helping others, Ester co-founded Wellness Reproductions and Publishing with her daughter Kathy Khalsa, and began developing therapeutic products that help facilitators help their clients.

With Whole Person Associates, Ester has co-written several workbooks and corresponding card decks including: GriefWork ~ Healing from Loss, Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Creating a Healthy Balanced Life, The Complete Caregiver Support Guide, Life Skills to Help Teens Balance Way Too Much, Motivation, and Veterans - Surviving and Thriving after Trauma, Transitional Life Skills for Teens series, Optimal Well-Being for Senior Adults series, and Nurturing Spiritual Development in Children by Understanding Our Own Spirituality. Visit WholePerson.com for a complete list.

Ester, a breast cancer survivor since 2003, counsels other survivors in overcoming body and loss issues. Ester is a board member of SOS (Survivors of Suicide) in Tucson, AZ.

John J. Liptak, EdD, has many years of experience in providing counseling services to individuals and groups in a variety of settings including job training programs, correctional institutions, colleges, and universities. In addition, John has years of teaching experience as an adjunct professor at Radford University.

John frequently conducts workshops on assessment-related topics. He has written three books on career-related issues. His books have been featured in numerous newspapers including The Washington Post, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. His work has also been featured on MSNBC, CNN Radio, and on the PAX/ION television series, "Success without a College Degree."

With Ester and Kathy, he has written three other comprehensive books for teachers and counselors to use with their students and clients: The Self-Esteem Program, The Social Skills Program, and The Stress Management Program: Inventories, Activities and Educational Handouts.

Ester and John continue to co-write workbooks and corresponding card decks in each of these series that help facilitators help their teen and adult participants: Coping, Erasing the Stigma of Mental Health Issues through Awareness, Working With Families, Mental Health and Life Skills, Mind-Body Wellness, and Teen Mental Health and Life Skills, all published by Whole Person Associates. Visit WholePerson.com for a complete list.

Edition details

• Publisher: Whole Person Associates, Inc
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570253714
• ISBN 13: 9781570253713
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 126