JOIN US!

August 28th, 2017 | Posted by Sherry Gaba in Uncategorized - (Comments Off on JOIN US!)

Join the 5th Annual  Recovery Today Series www.recoverytodayseries.com online conference sponsored by Soba Recovery Center.  Sherry Gaba, Editor of Recovery Today Magazine will be interviewing  20 of the greatest transformational leaders and addiction experts of our time.  Addiction does not just mean substance abuse but can mean codependency, love and sex addiction, debting, internet addiction, procrastionation and/or …
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The Law Of Attraction And Relationship Issues

August 11th, 2017 | Posted by Sherry Gaba in Uncategorized - (Comments Off on The Law Of Attraction And Relationship Issues)

For a love addict being single and alone is a crisis. These are people that rely on others for their sense of identity, where the relationship becomes the focus of their lives. Needless to say, love addicts smother the partner, which only causes the partner to pull away while the love addict clings on and …
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The Imago

July 12th, 2017 | Posted by Sherry Gaba in Uncategorized - (Comments Off on The Imago)

According to Harville Hendrix we are attracted to our Imago–what he calls our dream partner– an image of which we carry around in our brain. The Imago is like a puzzle. As we are growing up, every time someone significant in our lives stimulates us it becomes a piece of the puzzle–a memory. Even with …
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What Do You Really Think About Yourself?

June 27th, 2017 | Posted by Sherry Gaba in Uncategorized - (Comments Off on What Do You Really Think About Yourself?)

If you were to be asked to immediately write down the first 5 words that come to your mind to describe yourself, what would those words be? Would they be different if you knew you had to share them than if you were the only person that would even see the text on the page? …
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Is The Law Of Attraction In Play For An Addict?

June 19th, 2017 | Posted by Sherry Gaba in Uncategorized - (Comments Off on Is The Law Of Attraction In Play For An Addict?)

It is common to hear addicts talk about themselves as if they were different than other people. They have often gone through so much and felt dehumanized so many times that seeing things work for other people is like watching a foreign film, they can’t understand the message and they don’t get the plot. In …
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Is The Law Of Attraction In Play For An Addict?

May 30th, 2017 | Posted by Sherry Gaba in Uncategorized - (Comments Off on Is The Law Of Attraction In Play For An Addict?)

It is common to hear addicts talk about themselves as if they were different than other people. They have often gone through so much and felt dehumanized so many times that seeing things work for other people is like watching a foreign film, they can’t understand the message and they don’t get the plot. In …
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Relationship Red Flags

May 10th, 2017 | Posted by Sherry Gaba in Uncategorized - (Comments Off on Relationship Red Flags)

Whenever we get into a new romantic relationship, it’s natural for us to be infatuated and want to spend a lot of time with them. For those of us that are codependents or love addicts, we can become dangerously obsessed. The problem is that we don’t have anything to compare ourselves to, so we can’t …
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Signs of Love Addiction

May 1st, 2017 | Posted by Sherry Gaba in Uncategorized - (Comments Off on Signs of Love Addiction)

Love addiction can mean so many different things to people. There is no set diagnosis for it, and no list of things you *must* have or do to have it.  For those of us that know we are love addicts, think back to how hard it was to find out, and then come to terms …
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LOOKING FOR LAUGHTER, JOY AND BEAUTY

April 10th, 2017 | Posted by Sherry Gaba in Uncategorized - (Comments Off on LOOKING FOR LAUGHTER, JOY AND BEAUTY)

Most people are aware of what is known as the placebo effect. This is a phenomenon that occurs when someone is told that a pill or a medication they are taking is a cure for a health condition even though it is just a simple sugar pill with no medicinal qualities. People that believe they …
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