Episode 356: What is Love Addiction? With Dr. Alexandra Katehakis

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Andrea Owen

How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 517 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Dr. Alexandra Katehakis is a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist and Founder of Center for Healthy Sex and she joins me to discuss the topic of healing from love addiction. While love addiction may not be something affecting your life where you need to seek treatment, it could be something to look at in terms of some unhealthy coping mechanisms affecting your life. We discuss what love addiction is, the root cause (which stems from father abandonment), and what the steps to healing look like. Dr. Alex offers amazing insight and advice about what it means to be a love addict and how to step into recovery. I hope this episode is helpful to you, in some way. In this episode you’ll hear: What is love addiction? And how it differs between men and women. (5:59) Women struggle with a concept called ‘mother hunger’ and therefore it is crucial for women to find support from other women in order to heal from sex or love addiction. (12:33) The root cause of love addiction. (14:45) There comes a point when we realize we are hurting ourselves, plus why going into the pain (withdrawal) is how we can heal. (18:22) What sobriety looks like for love addicts and some of the first steps someone can take to heal. (22:03) How to assert healthy boundaries for more equal relationships. (35:11) http://yourkickasslife.com/356 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.8	Little girls fall in love with their daddies around four or five years old. They are the
0:35.5	apple of daddy's eye. And it's the male's responsibility,
0:39.7	the adult male's responsibility, just steward that young girl into womanhood. And oftentimes
0:45.9	males are horribly unequipped for that for a whole host of reasons in our culture. So this
0:52.8	becomes a repetition, compulsion, if you will,
0:56.6	you know, always looking for someone to save us. Like someday my prince will come, somebody will
1:01.3	love me, this fantasy world that we live in, hoping that someone's going to come scoop us up.
1:08.2	And when you're four and five years old, someone should come scoop you up.
1:12.1	But when you are 25, 30, 35, no one's coming. And that's when we start to see that, oh my gosh,
1:20.6	I have to find a way to reparent myself and heal this wound and deal with my grief and loss so that I can choose a man who
1:29.5	actually really can be there for me.
1:34.4	This is Your Kickass Life podcast episode number 356 with guest Alexandra Catehawkes.
1:41.2	This is the Your Kickass Life podcast with Andrea Owen, a no BS guide to self-help and badassery.
1:49.6	Because ladies, let's face it, life's too short for it to not kick ass.
1:55.9	And here's your host, the girl who serves it up straight with a side of crazy.
2:00.9	Andrea Owen. Welcome to another episode of the podcast. I am so glad that you are here.
2:06.3	We are diving into a topic today that is personal to me and I have a feeling. There's a lot of you out
2:13.2	there who might also struggle with this. The topic that our expert is so well versed on and
2:21.4	has spent much of her career studying this and treating people with love and sex addiction.
2:28.9	And it's one of those topics where when it comes up or when I write about it, I get a lot of feedback where
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