Letting Go of Your Ex: CBT Skills to Heal the Pain of a Breakup and Overcome Love Addiction, Paperback

Recover from love addiction and create a vibrant, healthy life--without your ex.

Do you feel like you're never going to get over your ex? Do thoughts and memories of a past romance bring you unbearable pain? Are you consumed by anger, sadness, frustration, and rumination about what went wrong? If so, you may have an unhealthy love addiction. You aren't alone, and there is nothing to be ashamed of. For people who struggle with love addiction, a breakup can feel overwhelming. The good news is there are tools you can use to begin healing.

Written by a psychologist and leading love addiction expert, Letting Go of Your Ex offers powerful, evidence-based skills and techniques grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you combat the overwhelming symptoms of love addiction, get unstuck from the past, and start focusing on what makes you happy, right here and now.

You'll learn:

• How and why love can function like an addiction
• How to change the harmful beliefs that keep you stuck on your ex
• How childhood experiences affect adult romantic relationships
• How to avoid recreating old dynamics in a new relationship

Love addiction is real--and just like any addiction, it can leave you in a constant state of craving, withdrawal, and hopelessness. But there is hope for recovery. Using the tools in this compassionate and nonjudgmental guide, you can start moving toward the life you deserve.

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 (UNLV). 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. Foreword writer Antonio Cepeda-Benito, PhD, has published extensively, received several awards, and his research connecting the disciplines of behavioral neuroscience and clinical psychology to investigate drug addiction and eating disorders from a cross-cultural perspective has been supported by grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Texas Department of Health, and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology. In 2009, he was named one of the "Top 100 Most Influential Hispanics" by Hispanic Business Magazine.

• Author: Cortney Soderlind Warren
• Cover type: Paperback
• Publishing Year: 2023
• Publishing Month: 2
• Pages: 200
• Language: English
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Weight: 268 g
• Dimensions: 20 x 230 x 160