Healing Abandonment with Susan Anderson

Do you know someone who stays in a bad relationship? What hooks them? The standard answer is that they don't feel good enough about themselves. They don't feel they deserve better. They have a low sense of entitlement.

1. The intense emotional crisis of abandonment is real; it is temporary, normal – part of being human. The regression into primal fear does not mean we're weak; it's an involuntary reaction to feeling left behind by someone we love. 2.

Improve Relationships And Overcome Your Patterns Of Self-Sabotage.

Susan Anderson is a practicing psychotherapist and founder of the Abandonment Recovery Program.

What is abandoholism? You've heard of food-oholism, work-oholism, shop-oholism and, of course, alcoholism. Now here comes another, most insidious, addictive pattern – aband-oholism.  Abandoholism is one of Outer Child's most insidious patterns.

Do your abandonment issues hold you back? Are you in heartbreak? Does insecurity cause you to sabotage your relationships? Join Susan Anderson for a life-changing ONLINE workshop: "Healing Abandonment and Self Sabotage" -- 5 Sessions.

There is nothing wrong with being alone. Many people choose it, celebrate it, and wouldn't have it any other way. You can become alone unexpectedly (due to one of life's circumstances) and inadvertently discover its many benefits.

Codependency can affect your relationships with everyone – your friends, your lovers, your children, your family, your co-workers, etc.

Social media triggers abandonment. That feeling of not having the life that everyone else seems to be having, or not being liked as much as other people are being liked, or feeling excluded when friends are having a party.

When someone rejects you they acquire power in your mind. They acquire power due to their ability to inflict pain. The more they hurt you the harder it is to let go. This is the painful paradox of abandonment.