Sherry Gaba - Love Smacked

Sherry Gaba, LCSW and Transformation Coach Author of Love Smacked:How to Stop the Cycle of Relationship Addiction and Codependency to find Everlasting Love And Wake Up Recovery for Toxic Relationships, Codependency and Love Addiction Sherry Gaba on Breaking the Cycle of Relationship Addiction, Codependency and Toxic Partnerships Gaba, licensed psychotherapist, coach, author, and founder of Wakeup Recovery, formerly featured on VH1’s Celebrity Rehab, brings her vast expertise and personal experience to those ready to exit the self-destructive cycle and create lasting, loving relationships Romance and love addiction is a real thing. You may find yourself constantly in search of the next “love high,” even as the previous one ends…Fear being alone? Distraught at the idea of being single as you age? Jumping into the new one right on the heels of the last breakup. These might give you a hint you could have an addiction problem. But it works the other way, too…are you consistently drawn to toxic partners who are emotionally (or even physically) abusive and manipulative? Are you so desperate to keep a relationship alive that you’ll do almost anything to support your partner, becoming unintentionally co-dependent. If you are ready to break out of these patterns, then Sherry Gaba is your guide! Sherry is the one of the world’s leading experts on this subject. Author of the bestselling book Love Smacked, you’ve seen her featured on VH1’s Celebrity Rehab, CNN, Inside Edition, Access Live, E! News, and in Cosmopolitan, Women’s World, the Los Angeles Times, Thrive Global, the New York Post, Marriage.com and Psychology Today. A licensed psychotherapist, life coach and founder of Wakeup Recovery, Sherry marries her vast knowledge of the addiction recovery process with her expertise in relationship coaching and counseling. But she has a very personal reason for specializing in this area. She WAS a romance and love addict for most of the first 40 years of her life! Married four times, she was driven by the need for reassurance, comfort, safety, validation and financial support that she perceived a relationship offered. Her compulsion stemmed from being a premature baby placed in an incubator for weeks after birth. Without that initial bonding and supporting parenting, she suffered the abandonment that drives most people who are love addicted. Sherry’s husbands included the abuser, the neglector and the alcoholic. Fortunately, she eventually sought a career in social work, earning a master’s in her field, while also seeking support at Al-Anon, the organization that helps family members of alcoholics grow, heal and release their co-dependency. These all gave her new insights, starting her on the path of self-love, respect and independence that gave her special insight into what many of her clients were reporting in their disastrous relationships. Today, she has very specific strategies that help break the cycle. Membership in her Wakeup Recovery program includes group coaching, video training and many other offerings that will help someone detach from the compulsive behavior that marks romance and love addiction, co-dependency and repeated engagement in toxic relationships. It provides strategies to modify you or, if you are in a relationship, into the right alignment for long-lasting love, to walk away if it isn’t right and the way to identify when it is right—or least has the values-and-character match that portends potential success. Want to know if you or your listeners are at risk of indulging in these self-destructive, obsessive love addictions or behaviors? Take Sherry’s quiz and receive her FREE e-book Narcissistic Partners and Obsessive Love: https://sherrygaba.com/npquiz