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Building Your Dream Home – The Importance of Self-Love

Recovery from Self-Love Deficit Disorder/codependency cannot be rushed.  Many of us have lived in or currently live in a metaphorically dilapidated and dangerous home that fools us into believing it protects us from the risk of harm and danger. As...
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Taking the Joke Out of Codependency

Written by Ross Rosenberg, M.Ed., LCPC, CADCSelf-Love Recovery Institute – President/CEOPsychotherapist, Educator, Author, Expert Witness The following content is derived from “The Human Magnet Syndrome: The Codependent Narcissist Trap” (2022) WHEN YOUR DISORDER IS A JOKE“What’s in a name?”...
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Healing the Inner Trauma Child Psychotherapy Method

On Karen McMahon’s “Journey Beyond Divorce” podcast Ross talked about his “Healing the Inner Trauma Child” (HITCH) Trauma Resolution Method. He explains how and why childhood attachment trauma is responsible/the cause of Self-Love Deficit Disorder/SLDD (codependency). Toxic and harmful...
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The Catch-22 of Gaslighting: Making the Effect the Cause

The song by The White Stripes, Effect and Cause, painfully illustrates the catch-22 trap that Pathological Narcissists ensnare their Self-Love Deficient/SLD (codependent) victims in.  In this song, the person tries to hold the gaslighter accountable, but he (or she)...
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Positive Affirmations to Heal

By Ross Rosenberg, Self-Love Recovery Institute Meaningful self-love and positive affirmations to help you heal your unconscious belief systems. Affirmations to read, practice and meditate. Look in the Mirror and say: “The reflection I see is 100% true; it...
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Understanding Narcissistic Abuse Syndrome: Ten Tips To Defend Against It

An Excerpt from The Human Magnet Syndrome: The Codependent Narcissist Trap (2018) Lately, an increasing number of books, articles, blogs, YouTube videos, and social networking sites are focusing on Narcissistic AbuseSyndrome (NAS), also known as Narcissistic Victim Syndrome. Like most newly recognized...
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Self Love Abundance Is The Codependency Cure

People find themselves chronically in unhealthy and unbalanced relationships, where they give most of the love, respect, and care; only to receive nothing in return. Despite the pain, they stay in this unhappy and toxic dance, because they are...
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Signs of Codependency – Am I Codependent?

  In writing the Human Magnet Syndrome books, the overriding goal was to provide explanatory and theoretical information about codependency, pathological narcissism and their dysfunctional relationship “dance.” Thousands of people have asked me to write about codependency treatment/recovery, but...
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Ross Rosenberg Quotes

These are some “Ross Rosenberg Quotes” for you to share, from his book The Human Magnet Syndrome.  Since the dawn of civilization, men and women have been magnetically and irresistibly drawn together, not so much by what they see,...
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