When relationships become a "drug," love hurts. Perhaps you, like many others, are experiencing the pain of an addictive relationship—the kind of relationship that's painful to be in, yet impossible to leave. It may be your first such relationship, or you may have found yourself in a pattern that you just can't seem to break. Author Kelly McDaniel walks the reader through an honest and impactful assessment of how women get into these relationships to begin with, and a walk through the road to recovery.

Ready to heal : Women Facing Love, Sex, and Relationship Addiction

Health, Fitness & Dieting

McDaniel, Kelly

Addiction & Recovery

Gentle Path Press

Break free from the chains of addictive relationships that sabotage happiness and self-respect. It's no surprise that our culture is addicted to "love". The sappy love songs, the enticing ads for romantic getaways and the desire to be cherished by a special someone will never lose their appeal. But for some women, this poses a significant problem. Because of their insatiable desire for love, they will do anything to find it and ultimately land in destructive addictive relationships over and over again causing incredible harm. This newly revised and expanded edition of Ready to Heal provides an opportunity for women to break free from painful addictive relationships. Kelly McDaniel provides the reader with the tools they will need to move along the path of living a life where intimacy is possible. Readers have an opportunity to begin to "connect the dots" in their own relationship patterns by following the stories of four brave women. A newly added chapter on "Mother Hunger" explores the role of the mother in infancy and how she ultimately impacts a daughter's ability to have healthy intimate relationships later in life. Kelly McDaniel, MA, LPC, NCC, CSAT is a licensed professional counselor and sex addiction therapist in private practice in Nashville, Tennessee.

Ready to Heal: Breaking Free of Addictive Relationships

Parenting & Relationships

Product Description 
An insatiable need for sex and love. Periods of overeating or starving. A pattern of unstable and painful relationships.\nDoes this sound painfully familiar?\nTrauma counselor Kelly McDaniel has seen these traits over and over in clients who feel trapped in cycles of harmful behaviors-and are unable to stop.\nMany of us find ourselves stuck in unhealthy habits simply because we don't see a better way. With 
Mother Hunger, McDaniel helps women break the cycle of destructive behavior by taking a fresh look at childhood trauma and its lasting impact. In doing so, she destigmatizes the shame that comes with being under-mothered and misdiagnosed. McDaniel offers a healing path with powerful tools that include therapeutic interventions and lifestyle changes in service to healthy relationships.\nThe constant search for mother love can be a lifelong emotional burden, but healing begins with knowing and naming what we are missing. McDaniel is the first clinician to identify Mother Hunger, which demystifies the search for love and provides the compass that each woman needs to end the struggle with achy, lonely emptiness, and come home to herself. 
 About the Author 
Kelly McDaniel, LPC, NCC, CSAT is a licensed professional counselor and author who specializes in treating women who experience addictive relational patterns. A pioneer in her field, McDaniel is the first clinician to name Mother Hunger as an attachment injury and explore the repercussions of bonding to an emotionally compromised mother. Kelly teaches workshops and speaks to audiences nationwide about Mother Hunger. She is a frequent podcast guest and her groundbreaking work is being used at several treatment centers around the country.

Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, an d Guidance

Mental Health

Hay House LLC

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Lexington's Lost Architecture: Places and People (Black and White Version)

Arts & Photography

Reeves, Woods

Architecture

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Thank you for viewing our book! If you decide to purchase, the authors humbly ask that you please go to www.createspace.com/6663271 (simply type this address into the address bar at the top of your screen and it will take you straight to the book to place your order). It is as safe and secure as purchasing on Amazon (probably more so) because it is Amazon, just their publishing side. We ask this favor because when our book is ordered through Amazon.com and not CreateSpace.com, Amazon takes out another large fee (not sure why since it is the same company) and by doing so, Amazon ends up making a lot more on the sale than we do. At least through CreateSpace we split the royalties a bit more evenly with Amazon. They still make more than the authors but this way is much fairer. We very much appreciate your extra effort to help and also thank you very, much for your interest in our book. We hope you enjoy it! "Lexington's Lost Architecture" is a new book featuring many never before published photos of some of Lexington, Kentucky's finest old architecture. All the homes are long gone either by having been torn down or burned. These pages contain the stories of the people that built these magnificent structures and those that inhabited them. There are many interior photos from private collections and many full color images which will give the reader an idea of the splendor of these lost treasures.

Lexington's Lost Architecture: Places and People (Color Version)