Letting Go of Your Ex

Are you struggling to get over a former lover? Do thoughts of your ex occupy your mind day and night? Are you consumed by anger, sadness, frustration, or unbearable pain that your relationship is over? If so, you're not alone—and you may be going through a love-addicted breakup. For people who struggle with love addiction, breakups can be downright devastating. Yet, there are tools you can use to start healing.

Letting Go of Your Ex offers powerful, evidence-based skills grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you manage intense emotions, get unstuck from the past, and start focusing on what makes you happy now. Feeling addicted to your ex can leave you in a constant state of craving and withdrawal. But you can emerge as a stronger, more honest, and authentic version of yourself. This compassionate and practical guide can help you heal your pain, and start enjoying your life again—with or without your ex.

You'll learn:

? How and why love can function like an addiction

? How to change the harmful beliefs that keep you stuck

? How childhood experiences affect adult romantic relationships

? How to avoid recreating old dynamics in a new relationship

Cortney Soderlind Warren, PhD, ABPP, is a board-certified clinical psychologist and former tenured associate professor of psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Having won numerous professional awards for her research, Warren is an expert on addictions, eating pathology, self-deception, and the practice of psychotherapy from a cross-cultural perspective. In addition to her academic work, Warren is a speaker, author, and coach with a passion for bringing psychological tools to the public. She earned her doctorate from Texas A&M University after completing a clinical internship at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School in 2006.

Antonio Cepeda-Benito, PhD, has published extensively and received several awards and research grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Texas Department of Health, and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology. He was named one of the "Top 100 Most Influential Hispanics" by Hispanic Business Magazine.

Erin deWard is an Audie Award-winning audiobook narrator and a classically trained stage actor. She is a longtime company member of The Strange Bedfellows, a Rockland County, New York-based Shakespeare company, and can be found directing, assisting another director, or on the lighting board for The Children's Shakespeare Theatre in Rockland County, New York. Erin has been working in the field of Audio Description (media accessibility for people who are blind) as a writer, voice talent, advocate, and trainer for over a decade. She is a proud and grateful member of SAG/AFTRA.