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08/26/21 • 45 min

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Might As Well Face It You're Addicted To Love With Love Addict Author Bri Ellison

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Today's guest is Bri Ellison, and she's the author of the book The Love Addict. Love addiction and heartbreak profoundly changed Bri's life when the future she envisioned for herself got destroyed when the love of her life blindsided her and abruptly left. Bri's idea of love continued to get derailed after many failed relationships. The thought of finding love consumed every moment, which eventually caused a pattern of addiction. Bri felt compelled to share her truth by writing about love addiction and how to overcome it. In this episode, Bri shares her story about finding love, kicking behaviors of heartbreak, ending the cycle of failed relationships, and how to find the love that's intended for you.

Bri Ellison's book The Love Addict is an introspective handbook designed to help women identify and find the love they desire and deserve. If you're someone who creates or ends complicated relationships that have left you feeling like a different person, This book is for you! Bri's story reveals how she became tired of her life, knowing that had to change. She could continue attracting everything that wasn't good for her, or she could scratch everything she knew about herself and love. Bri pressed the reset button on her ideologies around love. Bri shares how she kicked her love addiction and lost her destructive behaviors around love and relationships while gaining transformational tools that dramatically changed her life, leading her to find love and helping women all over the world.
Kerry Brett and Bri Ellison cover a lot of ground topics include:
What can be learned about love from hitting rock bottom?
What exactly is a love addict?
How does someone become a love addict, and how to unlearn these patterns?
Losing your sense of identity within a relationship.
What does counterfeit love look like?
Why do love addicts go on a journey to find true love, believing it's the only thing to cure her despair.
Advice for people who are pulling in the wrong person.
Solutions for heal your patterns around relationships.
Common mistakes women make pulling in unavailable men.
Why should you get comfortable with the uncomfortable or the unfamiliar when dating?
Why, once you stopped chasing love that you can find it.

The Love Addict can be purchased on Amazon, and to find out more information about Bri Ellison, you can follow on Instagram @the_love_labb or follow on Clubhouse at Bri Ellison.

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Get Your Love Fix On With Love Smacked Author, Sherry Gaba

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Today’s guest is Sherry Gaba, and she’s the author of the book “Love Smacked How to Stop the Cycle of Relationship Addiction and Codependency to Find Everlasting Love.” Sherry is also a Psychotherapist, Counselor and Life Coach. She was the go-to expert on a series of VH1 show’s such as VH1 Celebrity Rehab, Sober House as well as Celebrity Rehab and Sex Addiction. Sherry shares her experience around relationship addicts and why people who are hopelessly romantic and love being in a relationship continually move from one relationship to another always on the rebound never giving themselves time to heal or learn how to be independent. You’ll learnhow to steer clear of bad relationship choices,how to break unhealthy relationships patterns while living fabulously on your own or with a partner.

Sherry Gaba helps people cope with codependency, love addiction, toxic relationships, and mental health issues. As a leading expert on addiction and recovery, Sherry’s TV appearances include: CNN, Inside Edition, the Robert Irvine Show, Access Live, E! News, among others. She has been featured in Cosmopolitan, Women’s World, the LA Times, the New York Post, and Psychology Today to name a few. She has also been a guest on many SiriusXM radio shows and now hosts her own podcast, The Love Fix. Sherry is also the contributing writer to the book Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times Tough People.
Kerry Brett and Sherry Gaba cover a lot of ground, topics include:
Why it’s important to dismantle and unpack the shame around failed relationships.
What empty void in your life causes you to jump from one relationship to another and how to fix those unhealthy patterns.
Why do co-dependent love addicts match up with narcissists?
Why it’s so important to be discerning.
Why the universe always brings you what you need to know.
Why having self-esteem is so important and helps you navigate out of unhealthy relationships faster. When you have self-esteem, you don’t put up with unhealthy situations.
Why do love addicts feel so alone and nothingness. If you’re alone and lonely how to address those feelings. You have you; get connected to you first.
The power in being present, people spend most of their time complaining or worrying which doesn't serve you.

To find out more about Sherry Gaba you can follow her on Instagram @codependantlycurious, or listen to her podcast The Love Fix where all podcasts are found. Free Ebook Narcissistic Partners and Love Addiction https://relationship-quizzes.com/narcissistic-partners-quiz/

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Sherry Gaba, LCSW and Transformation Coach

Author of Love Smacked:How to Stop the Cycle of Relationship Addiction and Codependency to find Everlasting Love

And Wake Up Recovery for Toxic Relationships, Codependency and Love Addiction