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The Addict's Loop: A New Understanding And Workbook For Codependent Relationships And Addiction
“Revolutionary and eye opening. It changed how I understand every relationship in my life.” — 5 star review Amazon Customer.
Most people spend their lives fighting the addiction while never recognizing the unconscious emotional patterns that keep recreating it.
That is where The Addict's Loop begins.
Addiction rarely appears alone. It grows alongside codependence, over controlling behavior, unhealthy relationships, fear of abandonment, people pleasing, shame, and the desperate search to feel whole through something or someone outside ourselves. These unconscious emotional patterns quietly reinforce one another until they become a self sustaining Loop that feels impossible to escape.
The Addict's Loop offers a different way of understanding addiction. Instead of focusing only on the substance or behavior, it uncovers the unconscious emotional patterns that repeatedly draw people back into the same relationships, the same pain, and the same destructive choices, even after they have promised themselves they would never return.
If you have ever wondered why sobriety alone does not always bring peace, why the same relationship keeps returning in different forms, or why lasting change feels just out of reach, this book offers an answer that challenges conventional thinking.
More than an explanation, The Addict's Loop is a practical nine step workbook filled with clear insights, real life examples, and guided writing exercises that help you identify the unconscious emotional patterns driving your life, interrupt the Loop, and begin creating lasting recovery, healthier relationships, and a deeper understanding of yourself.
Most people spend their lives fighting the addiction while never recognizing the unconscious emotional patterns that keep recreating it.
That is where The Addict's Loop begins.
Addiction rarely appears alone. It grows alongside codependence, over controlling behavior, unhealthy relationships, fear of abandonment, people pleasing, shame, and the desperate search to feel whole through something or someone outside ourselves. These unconscious emotional patterns quietly reinforce one another until they become a self sustaining Loop that feels impossible to escape.
The Addict's Loop offers a different way of understanding addiction. Instead of focusing only on the substance or behavior, it uncovers the unconscious emotional patterns that repeatedly draw people back into the same relationships, the same pain, and the same destructive choices, even after they have promised themselves they would never return.
If you have ever wondered why sobriety alone does not always bring peace, why the same relationship keeps returning in different forms, or why lasting change feels just out of reach, this book offers an answer that challenges conventional thinking.
More than an explanation, The Addict's Loop is a practical nine step workbook filled with clear insights, real life examples, and guided writing exercises that help you identify the unconscious emotional patterns driving your life, interrupt the Loop, and begin creating lasting recovery, healthier relationships, and a deeper understanding of yourself.
127 pages, Paperback
First published June 5, 2014
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December 8, 2021
The concept introduced was intriguing and I was excited to learn more however, my desire to become more knowledgeable was hampered by the lack of specific detail.
It felt like the author assumed the reader was able, through osmosis, to get the detail needed to fully understand what he meant.
The way the examples were written may resonate more with those who deal with addiction first hand but as someone who wants to better understand what motivates addicts and enablers, I became very confused by the over-use of ‘controller’ and ‘dependent’. Since those roles are interchangeable, it was difficult to relate to an example when only those terms were used to describe the circumstances. Was it the addict-controller or the enabling-controller being discussed in that last example? How can the reader relate or learn from all these examples if it is not clear who is being discussed?
Maybe if the reader was an addict or an addict in recovery, it might make perfect sense, so some might argue it makes no difference who is the controller and who is the dependent in each example, but aren’t examples provided to drive home a point? If the reader is not clearly understanding the example, or is too confused by the wording to relate, how can they get the point? I became frustrated after the concept was introduced because the numerous examples given did not help at all in expanding on the over-all concept or providing clarity.
I would like to read more about The Addict’s Loop’ but I would need it to be better written before spending the time.
It felt like the author assumed the reader was able, through osmosis, to get the detail needed to fully understand what he meant.
The way the examples were written may resonate more with those who deal with addiction first hand but as someone who wants to better understand what motivates addicts and enablers, I became very confused by the over-use of ‘controller’ and ‘dependent’. Since those roles are interchangeable, it was difficult to relate to an example when only those terms were used to describe the circumstances. Was it the addict-controller or the enabling-controller being discussed in that last example? How can the reader relate or learn from all these examples if it is not clear who is being discussed?
Maybe if the reader was an addict or an addict in recovery, it might make perfect sense, so some might argue it makes no difference who is the controller and who is the dependent in each example, but aren’t examples provided to drive home a point? If the reader is not clearly understanding the example, or is too confused by the wording to relate, how can they get the point? I became frustrated after the concept was introduced because the numerous examples given did not help at all in expanding on the over-all concept or providing clarity.
I would like to read more about The Addict’s Loop’ but I would need it to be better written before spending the time.
July 26, 2019
This is helps explain why awareness isn't always enough. Sometimes you got a learn what you DON'T know.
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