RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

• Facing Love Addiction: GivingYourself the Power to Change the Way You Love by Pia Mellody

• Facing Codependence: An Insightful Approach to Healing from Childhood Abuses, Overcoming Love Addiction, and Breaking Free from Toxic Emotions by Pia Mellody

• Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, & Guidance by Kelly McDaniel

• Ready to Heal: Helping Women Heal from Addictive Relationships by Kelly McDaniel

• Align Your Mind by Britt Frank

• Setting Boundaries That Stick by Juliane Taylor Shore

• 12 Essential Insights for Emotional Sobriety by Allen Berger, Ph.D.

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• Love is Not Enough with Gabor Mate

• The Highly Sensitive Person with Elaine Aron

• Listening to Shame with Brene Brown

• How the Body Keeps the Score with Bessel Van Der Kolk 

• Women Are The Medicine (Substack)

• A Rebellious Life with Jen Esposito (Substack)

She Recovers
A wonderful organization that serves women in or seeking recovery from mental health  issues, trauma, substance use, and related life challenges.

Psychology Today
Search for therapists by zip code, speciality, cost, and accepted insurance.

Healing Trauma Network
Directory of therapists trained in Pia Mellody’s modality.

SLAA
12-step support for sex and love addiction

Love Addicts Anonymous
Online love addiction support created by Susan Peabody

ACA: Adult Children of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families
Online support focused on emotional sobriety

CoDA: Codependents Anonymous
12-step support for codependency recovery

Center for Healthy Sex
Online sex and love addiction programs for women and men. Clinical Director Dr. Alex Katehakis (author of “Erotic Intelligence”) also offers a free monthly webinar you can join through their website.

The Bridge to Recovery
Trauma-focused recovery center outside Nashville, TN; offers two-week residential programs.

The Meadows
Inpatient trauma and addiction treatment based upon Pia Mellody’s model. Located in Wickenberg, AZ (as well as a location near Dallas, TX). Their intake department can also provide a list of Meadows-trained therapists in your state.