The Love Addiction Workbook

The purpose of The Love Addiction Workbook is to provide helping professionals with cognitive andbehavioral assessments, tools, and exercises that can be utilized to treat the root psychological causesof a love addiction. It is designed to help people identify and change negative, unhealthy thoughts andbehaviors that may have led to a love addiction. The activities contained in this workbook can helpparticipants identify their triggers that can lead to an addiction to love and teach them ways to overcomeand 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 maketheir life whole.• Learn ways to live a new life without the need to obsess about finding a romanticpartner to 'fix' their life.The Love Addiction Workbook is a practical tool for teachers, counselors, and helping professionals intheir work with people suffering from behavioral addictions. Depending on the person’s role using thisworkbook and the specific needs of the groups or individuals, the modules can be used individually or aspart of an integrated curriculum. The facilitator may choose to administer one of the activities to a groupor administer some of the assessments over one or more days as a workshop.