Love Addiction

“Some reports have suggested that trauma-bonded relationships reflect a reactivation of early attachment disturbance and show a pattern of relational disturbances.”

– Cogan & Porcelli, 1996; Henderson, et al.. 1997; and Kileen, 2000.

My Intensive Recovery Program™ is a breakthrough 12-week program that is designed for people who want immediate transformational change and are highly motivated to take a deep dive into their healing, relational complexities, and personal growth.

This program is a groundbreaking approach that implements comprehensive, research-based strategies and actionable tools that are designed to help you identify key areas in your relationship patterns that are holding you back, so you can unlock positive and lasting growth, leading to healthy connection within your relationships.

Decoding our attachment style is only part of the battle.

Without being taught specific, actionable tools, we will continue approaching relationships (and ourselves) from the same repetitive attachment patterns:

Confusing “attaching” with connecting increased risk for trauma bonded relationships.

Anyone who lives with attachment insecurities, fears of intimacy, or unhealed trauma understands how important it is to unpack why these wounds tend to repeatedly show up in your romantic relationships. But, that’s not enough. Trauma bonded relationships are based on attachment disturbances that have affected your ability to connect in a healthy and authentic way, and can affect your ability to function in an emotionally mature way in your relationships. These common patterns are just the tip of the iceberg.

At the core of traumatic bonding are insecure attachment styles and developmental attachment trauma that have left scars in your ability to be present and vulnerable in your relationships. The closer you may feel towards someone, the greater the risk of these attachment insecurities surfacing, creating a dichotomy where you feel as if you cannot leave, but also cannot stay. These wounds are reinforced within the relationship itself, triggering core fear of abandonment or rejection.

My Intensive Recovery Program™ targets 5 key areas that are critical for supporting a comprehensive approach to healing. Because unhealthy relationships have compulsive and “addictive” patterns that tap into your core attachment wounding and trauma, you cannot just bandage the problem. Authentic healing requires a deep dive into understanding why the wound started, where it started, when it bean, and most importantly - how to heal.

Common red flags of attachment disturbances in romantic relationships include:

  • Trauma reenactment in relationships, or “repetition compulsion”
  • Choosing partners that resonate with the original, unhealed wounds
  • Justifying their behavior, or trying to “fix” or “save” them
  • An inability to leave a relationship, or a compulsion to go back to a relationship; “boomeranging”
  • Engaging in relationships where people hurt or use you
  • Compromising parts of yourself to make amends or please them
  • There is a compulsive and “addictive” trait within the relationship
  • Acting out in self-sabotaging or self-destructive ways
  • Feeling helpless, scared or “broken”
  • Lacking self-worth and self-esteem
  • Shaky sense of self-identity

Dr. Annie Tanasugarn has revolutionized how you approach lasting healing from attachment insecurities, and histories of maladaptive or trauma bonded relationships with her Intensive Recovery Program™ that implements psychoeducational + behavioral approaches along with specific developmental areas within its framework.

She is a pioneer and trendsetter with over 2 decades in the fields of psychology and Behavior Science. Her program is specifically designed in guiding others in learning adaptive skills, while teaching actionable and growth-oriented tools, and promoting key self-mastery techniques. The result is that you learn how to remain centered and grounded in your relationships, while making more informed and healthier choices for yourself.


Actionable tools transformational change

Psychoeducation

PSYCHOEDUCATION

The overarching theme in Dr. Tanasugarn’s Intensive Recovery Program™ is to educate, coach, and teach clients using both empirically-supported and research-based foundations. By providing clients with visual concrete explanations on how patterns play out the way they do, a bridge is formed between theory and application. This supports clients in taking the guesswork out of their growth by recognizing when and where to dive deeper and how to discover these insights within themselves.

Behavioral

BEHAVIORAL

This program raises the bar for any client who wants to fast-track their successes. “Reframing” and “awareness” techniques associated with traditional talk therapy can only go so far. A hard truth is that we need quantifiable goals – actual plans that can be defined, tracked, modified, and mastered. These are the secrets to lasting growth and healing. This is where Dr. Tanasugarn stands out as a leader and pioneer in both psychology and Behavior Science.

Attachment

ATTACHMENT

Attachment trauma is at the core of pathological love. Many who struggle with patterns of love addiction (or love avoidance) were not given healthy role models when it came to learning about love. As a result, children learn what they are taught, often by a process of modeling and imitation. If a child’s parents or caregivers modeled toxic patterns associated with love, children often learn this as “normal.” Unpacking our attachment trauma begins with learning our unique attachment style. But, it also includes a deep dive into behavioral processes and patterns that resonate with these core attachment wounds. Intensive Recovery Program™ teaches how to recognize and modify existing attachment patterns, resulting in an Earned Secure style, and healthier relationships.

Needs

NEEDS

A critical part of healing from love addiction is in understanding where our unmet needs are, and targeting these areas. If our needs went unmet in childhood, the outcome is often developmental “holes” where our unmet needs are. A pattern specific to love addiction is in turning to relationships as a way of “filling” these developmental holes. Unfortunately, this leads to disappointment, and a pattern of turning to more and more people to try and get our needs met. By diving deep into understanding where these developmental “holes” are, I teach my clients how to begin nurturing these needs for themselves, with less dependency on others.

Mastery

MASTERY

Mastery can only happen once a new skill has been properly taught, can generalize, and only after a client has been trained in monitoring and assessing their progress. With mastery, skills become more fluid, healthy patterns more automatic, and older habits fade. Any program should include a way for clients to gain and maintain mastery in their lives. This is where Dr. Tanasugarn has consistently proven her expertise, in not only providing her clients necessary skills, but in proving evidence-based tools that foster ongoing mastery.

In this comprehensive, 12-week Intensive Recovery Program, you will receive:

  • 1:1 personalized and individual coaching sessions each week
  • In-between session calls or emails to monitor progress and modify goals as needed
  • Journaling prompts and assignments
  • Specific weekly goals that use a stepwise system to mastery
  • Accountability checks
  • Homework assignments that allow you to apply skills gained in real-world situations
  • Workbook pages, worksheets, graphs & printouts that you can use in real-time
  • Increased self-awareness, self-forgiveness, and self-acceptance
  • Valuable insights and tools for understanding and meeting needs
  • My in-depth Self-Healing Through Self-Discovery Approach™ to trauma healing
  • …and much more that I keep exclusive for each client’s unique needs.

There is hope, and there is help. Start your self-healing journey today.

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