Recommended Resources
for Your Recovery Journey

• 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

• The Intimacy Factor: The Ground Rules for Overcoming the Obstacles to Truth, Respect, & Lasting Love 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

• The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward by Britt Frank

• You Are Not Stuck: How Soul-Guided Choices Transform Fear into Freedom by Becky Vollmer

• The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron Ph.D.

• Self Compassion: The power of being kind to yourself by Dr. Kristin Neff

• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate

• Boundaries by Anne Katherine, M.A.

• Setting Boundaries That Stick by Juliane Taylor Shore

• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

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

• Love is Not Enough with Gabor Mate

• The Highly Sensitive Person with Elaine Aron

• Listening to Shame with Brene Brown

• Transactional Analysis

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

• Still Face Experiment with Dr. Edward Tronick

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 love addiction

Love Addicts Anonymous
Online love addiction support created by Susan Peabody

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.