“Absolutely compelling. Raw and honest as it needs to be, intellectually challenging, and psychologically mature. As schadenfreude-inducingly damning to the psycho-medical-recovery industrial complex.” —Chris Hancock, LCWS, ACMHP, Therapy Outside the Box
Sarah has been led to believe her love for the author is akin to a heroin addiction, and she is powerless against a fictitious disease. Over the course of around 18 months, the author pens around 18 letters to his beloved, revealing his abiding love for her and a perspective beyond narcissistic models, limiting beliefs, and destructive dogmas thinly veiled as truth.
In a world where the lines between love and addiction are blurred by an often misguided archaic medical mental-illness model, “Love Letters to a Love Addict” offers a profound, heart-wrenching, and eye-opening true story that grounds relevant alternatives between the often pejorative prevailing paradigm and the lives of two humans learning to love.
The book exposes how vulnerable individuals, desperate for answers, are pathologized, persuaded, or preyed upon by profiteers, recovery cults, and dangerous therapy entrenched in outdated, harmful, and sometimes fraudulent treatments that perpetuate what they claim to help.
“Love Letters To A Love Addict” is not just a collection of letters; it’s a journey through the unfiltered mind and emotions of one man’s attempt to reach the woman he loves from the clutches of a fatalistic ideology hell-bent on ripping them apart under the guise of mental health.
As the author stumbles through his failures, he pulls insights from depth, transpersonal, humanistic, archetypal, integral, energy, developmental psychology, object relations, and attachment theory to express to Sarah what he was learning about himself and their dysfunction as a natural process toward wholeness together.
How This Book Will Transform Your Perspective on Love
Healing Through Self-Reflection: The author demonstrates the critical importance of self-awareness and personal growth in relationships by addressing his own shortcomings. By withdrawing blame and focusing on the inward meaning of an outward message you will gain clues to co-creating the love you need more than the love you want.
Empowerment and Agency: Feel empowered to seek out supportive, understanding therapists and support systems that prioritize your decision to love whoever you want and stop allowing friends, family and therapists to play god by covertly manipulating the direction of your unique life.
Disorders Are Doors Not Dead Ends: We repeat adaptive patterns in adult relationships to solve an original wound stemming from childhood. Disorders maybe a poor word choice since they are highly ordered protective strategies. Although challenging they have a language. If there is love then love learns the language each persons needs no matter the label.
Be Inspired to Choose Your Path: Gain insights that go underneath the common narratives to see a world inside our unconscious minds that shape our lives in directions counter to our deepest needs and desires.
Understanding True Love As A Winding Road: Learn to distinguish between genuine emotional connections and misguided labels and pejorative judgments, recognizing the profound potential for awakening through authentic love that isn’t perfect and often challenging.
Triggers Are Not Incompatibilities: Triggers are sign posts that signal where we go unconscious and act out survival mechanisms that are programmed in the formative years of childhood. Compatibilities are the anchor points around a shared friendship and life goals despite the triggers.
Boundaries Can Become Barriers: Breakthroughs often come from seeing the other persons perspective but if we are too boundaried we can wall off what otherwise needs to be broken down for effective growth.
Break Free from the Love Addiction Myth, Recovery Cults and Dangerous Therapy. A True Story of Love, Loss, Lies and the Quest for Truth…