Love Me, Dont Leave Me, Michelle Skeen, PsyD
Love Me, Dont Leave Me, Michelle Skeen, PsyD
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Love Me, Don't Leave Me
Overcoming Fear of Abandonment and Building Lasting, Loving Relationships

Author: Michelle Skeen, PsyD

Narrator: Karyn O'Bryant

Unabridged: 5 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/09/2016


Synopsis

Everyone thrives on love, comfort, and the safety of family, friends, and community. But if you are denied these basic comforts early in life, whether through a lack of physical affection or emotional bonding, you may develop intense fears of abandonment that can last well into adulthood—fears so powerful that they can actually cause you to push people away.



If you suffer from fears of abandonment, you may have underlying feelings of anger, shame, fear, anxiety, depression, and grief. These emotions are intense and painful, and when they surface they can lead to a number of negative behaviors, such as jealousy, clinging, and emotional blackmail. In Love Me, Don't Leave Me, therapist Michelle Skeen combines acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), schema therapy, and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) to help you identify the root of your fears. In this book you'll learn how schema coping behaviors—deeply entrenched and automatic behaviors rooted in childhood experiences and fears—can take over and cause you to inadvertently sabotage your relationships. By recognizing these coping behaviors and understanding their cause, you will not only gain powerful insights into your own mind, but also into the minds of those around you.

Author Bio

Michelle Skeen, PsyD, is a therapist who lives and works in San Francisco, California. She has provided brief and long-term therapy for individuals and couples utilizing schema, cognitive, and behavioral therapies to address interpersonal issues, weight management, anger, depression, anxiety, disabilities, and trauma. She is author of The Critical Partner and coauthor of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Interpersonal Problems.

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