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Recovery Coaching:
A Guide to Coaching People
in Recovery from Addictions
Second Edition
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Category Archives: love avoidant
What is a recovery coach?
In 2013, I published Recovery Coaching – A Guide to Coaching People in Recovery from Addictions, since then the duties and responsibilities of recovery coaches, peer recovery support specialists and professional recovery coaches have expanded significantly. In this article, I … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism, behavioral health, Drug Addiction, eating disorder, Family Dynamics, Gambling Addiction, Internet Addiction Disorder, love addiction, love avoidant, mental health, opioid epidemic, Pornography, pornography addiction, Recovery Coaching, Sex Addiction, Uncategorized
Tagged Association of Recovery Community Organizations, CCAR, Conneticut Community for Addiction Recovery, medicated supported recovery, medication assisted treatment, peer recovery coach, peer support specialists, peer to peer support specialist, recovery coach, recovery community organizations, sober companion
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Lions, Tigers, Bears and the Yellow Brick Road to Recovery
This is a guest post by Steve Devlin, a recovery coach from Philadelphia PA, and a long time friend. I chose to post this over the Holiday weekend, because it brings me such joy, and brings back wonderful memories of watching … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism, Anger, behavioral health, body dismorphia, Drug Addiction, eating disorder, Family Dynamics, Hunger, Internet Addiction Disorder, love addiction, love avoidant, mental health, opioid epidemic, Pornography, pornography addiction, Positive Thinking, Recovery Coaching, Sex Addiction
Tagged recovery, recovery coach, Steve Devlin, Wizard of Oz
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Getting through the tough times
As a recovery coach, I often see my clients need help getting through the tough times, without using, picking up or acting out. Recently, I personally encountered some rough patches in my life, so, I went to my library of … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism, Anger, behavioral health, body dismorphia, Drug Addiction, eating disorder, Family Dynamics, Gambling Addiction, Hunger, Internet Addiction Disorder, love addiction, love avoidant, mental health, opioid epidemic, Pornography, pornography addiction, Positive Thinking, Recovery Coaching, Sex Addiction
Tagged Addiction, breath work, Buddhism, Buddhist Nun, Cape Breton Nova Scotia, chodron foundation, Gampo Abbey, mkrecoverycoaching.com, Pema Chodron, when things fall apart
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Why Can’t You Do the Dishes? Part 2
This week’s guest blogger, Jeff Garson from Radical Decency Group, shares with us a very common example of a partner/spouse/husband/wife interaction. A husband and wife are about to leave for work and his wife, looking at a sink filled with … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, behavioral health, Family Dynamics, love addiction, love avoidant, mental health, Positive Thinking
Tagged Jeff Garson, Philadelphia, relationships, The Radical Decency group
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The Top Ten Warning Signs You Are Talking to an Online Catfisher-Part 4
How can you protect yourself from a Catfisher or an online predator? Why do they do what they do? Catfishers want something from you. These are people that are not motivated by love, but are driven by money, perverse sexual … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Anger, behavioral health, Drug Addiction, love addiction, love avoidant, mental health, pornography addiction, Sex Addiction, Uncategorized
Tagged catfisher, conartist, FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, internet predator, National Sexial Assault Hotline, National Sexual Violence Resource Center, scammer, stalking Resource Center
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The Top Ten Warning Signs You Are Talking to an Online Catfisher-Part 2
Are you talking to someone online? Do you trust them? Could they be a catfisher, a scammer, a scallawag or a con? I recently returned to online dating after ending a long-term relationship. With a profile depicting a self-supporting, intelligent … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Anger, behavioral health, Internet Addiction Disorder, love avoidant, mental health, Positive Thinking, Recovery Coaching
Tagged Catching the Catfishers: Disarm the Online Pretenders, catfisher, con artist, match.com. eharmony, Predators and Perpetrators Who Are Out to Ruin Your Life, scammer, Tyler Cohen Wood
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20 Question Assessment – Is this a healthy relationship?
As a recovery coach I guide a lot of people in the “realm” of healthy relationships. Many ask — is this a healthy relationship? Some clients have not been in a relationship for several years, and are attempting to dip their … Continue reading
Posted in love addiction, love avoidant, mental health, pornography addiction, Positive Thinking, Recovery Coaching, Sex Addiction
Tagged healthy relationships, intimacy, marriage
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Why are Love Addicts and Love Avoidants or Love Ambivalents attracted to each other?
The last person a love addict should be attracted to is a love avoidant or love ambivalent. But all love addicts are attracted to love avoidants or love ambivalents. Why? In order to answer this we have to go back … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, behavioral health, Family Dynamics, love addiction, love avoidant, mental health, Sex Addiction
Tagged love addict, love addiction, love ambivilant, love avoidant, sex and love addicts anonymous
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Others in the Dance of Love….
A few more members are joining us in the Dance of Love Like Goldilocks, women (mostly) are all looking for the “three bears,” all in one man. Not too hot (average looking), not too cold (balanced ego) and is just … Continue reading
Posted in love avoidant, Sex Addiction, Uncategorized
Tagged love addict, love avoidant, relationship addict, the love ambivilant, the player, the torchbearer
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