Susan Peabody

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Love Addiction and Relationships Expert

Susan Peabody

Susan Peabody Quick Facts

Main Areas
Love addiction and relationships
Best Sellers
Addiction to Love and The Art of Changing
Career Focus
Teaching, writing and counseling
Affiliation
A Brighter Tomorrow

I have been teaching about love addiction and relationships since 1985. I have written four books:

Addiction to Love: Overcoming Obsession and Dependency in Relationships

The Art of Changing: Your Secret to a Better Life.

Recovery Workbook for Love Addicts and Love Avoidants.

Where Love Abides (a parable about my life).

My website is http://brightertomorrow.net/index.html

When I am not teaching about love addictio I do online and phone counseling. Recently I have also hung out my shingle as a Life Coach. Let me ask you . . . Are you looking for love but having a hard time finding it? Do you want to get married but no one is available? I can identify what is standing in your way and help you remove these stumbling blocks. I will listen to your story, get in touch with what needs to be changed and help you become more focused and goal oriented. You may think you know what you want, but may not have a clue as to what will really make you happy and fulfilled. I will outline a program of change and help you implement these changes. I will also help you write an online profile. If you are stuck, but ready to hear the truth, I can help you change your life forever. Before setting up an appointment, please read over the counseling page on my website and bring a notebook to your session.

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Those who vacillate between love addiction and love avoidance are called Ambivalent Love Addicts. Most Love Addicts and Love Avoidants are ambivalent at one time or another. They crave love, but they also fear it.

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In the last decade, a lot has changed in the world of love addiction. Not that love addiction itself has changed. It is pretty much the same insidious disorder it always has been. What has changed is how the world looks at it. Twenty years ago, our understanding of love addiction was still ...In the last decade, a lot has changed in the world of love addiction. Not that love addiction itself has changed. It is pretty much the same insidious disorder it always has been. What has changed is how the world looks at it.

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Creating a relationship is like backing a cake. You must have the right ingredients, in the right amount (not too much and not too little) and you must put them together in the right order. The ingredients of a healthy relationship are as follows: 1. Honesty that engenders trust. 2. Readiness ...

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The Freudians use the term repetition compulsion to describe “the mind’s tendency to repeat traumatic events in order to deal with them.”1 Another Freudian term, the pleasure principle, describes the need of the infant to seek gratification.2 In adults, this would be called the “production of ...

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I believe that to get well we have to face our fear. In 1982, when a friend suggested I go to a 12-Step program, I blurted out, “I can’t, I’m afraid they might cure me.” Little did I realize what I was saying about myself. It was years before I was able to face the fear I expressed to my ...

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The following letter was written to one of my readers in response to his letter of April 13, 2004. He has given me permission to excerpt his letter so that others might benefit from my advice. Dear Tom, Thank you for sharing your story with me. I have excerpted some of your thoughts and made ...

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FALLING IN LOVE WITH AN UNAVAILABLE PERSON Many love addicts find they have a history of falling in love with an unavailable person and they wonder why this keeps happening over and over again. The following is a list of the most common reasons love addicts keep falling into this ...

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To many people, the term “Seductive Withholder” is self-explanatory. SW’s are men and women who vacillate between being available and unavailable. One moment they are romantic, alluring, in pursuit and then suddenly (often without warning) they pull back and withhold ...

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Narcissism is a personality disorder. It stems from childhood abuse. When children decide that the world, and the people in it, are bad and that they are good, they have a skewed vision of life. They see the whole world as revolving around them. They see others as objects to gratify their needs. ...

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Psychologically, triangles are very complicated. Most people don’t seek them out—at least not consciously. They just seem to happen. One moment you are happily single. The next thing you know you are in love with someone who is married. Or you are happily married and suddenly you ...

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People like to tell me now and then that I am narcissistic. Yet I see myself as kind and generous. You might say I am in “denial,” about being a loving person, but there is actually some evidence to back up my perception of myself. I have a long history of “loving too ...

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A lot has been written about love addiction and yet it is still a misunderstood disorder. For instance, many people believe that love addicts only run hot (passionately pursue someone who is unavailable like in the movie Fatal Attraction.) However, many love addicts also run cold (appear aloof)and yet they are still addicted.

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I am glad to be a recovering love addict myself and able to offer the following message. "If you are a love addict, you are not alone. There is hope and there is recovery. If you have suffered enough, and are ready to make certain changes, you can follow in my footsteps and those of other recovering love addicts. You can have a brighter tomorrow." From my book Addiction to Love. Change is to human life what the metamorphosis is to the caterpillar. It is the inevitable cycle of life. If there is no change there is no life. From The Art of Changing. From a reader . . . Dear Ms. Peabody:This is so funny...I was SO intimated about contacting you, but felt an overpowering need to first personally thank you for reassuring me I had not completely lost it and offering me a way out.When I discovered you were now offering life coaching. . . you didn't have to ask me twice!!! Once I read your books, I immediately found your work to be down to earth (free of annoying psycho babble), clear, concise, relevant, and full of hope. It was so powerful to turn the pages of your books and related and understand ME immediately. This personal identification with your work and examples were so powerful.I knew I had found my "answer" when I came to the symptom of "smothering" one's POA (Love Addicts Anonymous term for person of addiction.) I knew in my heart you understood me at my worst! It was as if you had jumped out from the pages I was reading and "nailed" me right there. I immediately saw myself as a dump truck driver backing up and letting go of my load covering my fantasy love who had no earthly clue I had an intimate feeling at all for him!I read your second book [The Art of Changing] as my addiction had escalated past the point of making no sense to me. It became my "bible" of hope as my therapist and I poured through the concepts of change you presented seeking how I might recover.Thank you again! It has been my pleasure and miracle meeting you! I hope my POA enjoyed my strange and continuous love. . . as it is coming to an end very very soon. Time's up buddy as I'm moving on!!!!Your grateful new client,Sheryl R.

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Everything I know about love addiction is on my website. http://brightertomorrow.net/index.html I have articles about love addiction, tests to determine if you are a love addict and a wealth of information about recovery. I also, for a fee, offer counseling services.