If you are ready to break the self-fulfilling cycle of mistrust, clinginess, and heartbreak and start building lasting, trusting relationships, this book will be your guide.
Michelle Skeen, PsyD, is a therapist who lives and works in San Francisco, CA. She has provided brief and long-term therapy for individuals and couples by utilizing schema and mindfulness-based approaches to address interpersonal issues, weight management, anger, depression, anxiety, disabilities, and trauma. She is author of Love Me, Don't Leave Me and coauthor of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Interpersonal Problems. Skeen is also coauthor of Communication Skills for Teens with her daughter, Kelly Skeen. She hosts a weekly radio show called Relationships 2.0 with Dr. Michelle Skeen on KCAA Radio 1050 AM and iHeart Radio. To find out more, visit her website at www.michelleskeen.com.
"The way out of the woods is to find a path through--a way to walk
through deep-seated fears of abandonment and emerge with the
ability to build, maintain, and enjoy lasting, loving
relationships. In Love Me, Don't Leave Me, Michelle Skeen
has expertly crafted one such path. With skill and compassion,
Skeen guides readers through a journey that facilitates
self-knowledge, self-discovery, and ultimately, the personal
transformation needed to enjoy lasting, loving relationships.
--Lissah Lorberbaum, MA, coauthor of Anxious
in Love: How to Manage Your Anxiety, Reduce Conflict, and Reconnect
with Your Partner
"Love Me Don't Leave Me ventures into the rough terrain of
your most challenging relationships. Michelle Skeen provides you
with an indispensable map and clear direction toward a new pathway
to heal yourself and develop smart and healthy ways to interact
with others. This book will offer you clear tools to realign with
your core values. Reading this book feels like you are sitting
across from a deeply caring therapist. Pull up a chair and
experience Skeen's warm and compassionate guidance for
yourself."
--Rebecca E. Williams, PhD, clinical psychologist
and coauthor of the award-winning The Mindfulness Workbook for
Addiction
"Love Me, Don't Leave Me is the perfect book for anyone
who is tired of the dark shadow of abandonment. It's a powerful
resource for those who feel as if no one could ever really love
them. And it's ideal for anyone who is exhausted from chasing
partners who are unpredictable, unreliable, or just plain
unavailable. With her trademark style of compassion and clarity,
Michelle Skeen will quickly help the reader identify the heart of
his or her abandonment patterns. This book provides robust tools
for change, with plenty of self-score inventories, cognitive
techniques, meditations, and case studies. Love Me Don't Leave
Me offers an escape from the gravitational pull of abandonment
and offers real answers for creating loving, relaxed, and
satisfying relationships."
--Shawn T. Smith, PsyD, author of The Woman's
Guide to How Men Think and The User's Guide to the Human
Mind
"Finally, a book that skillfully addresses an all-too-often
overlooked aspect of relationship struggles: the fear of
abandonment. This book will invite you on the journey of embracing
the most elemental aspect of our humanness--our sense of connection
to one another--and what can happen when this connection becomes
disrupted. Michelle Skeen masterfully walks you through a
comprehensive exploration of looking into how your experience of
connectedness--or various lacks thereof--contribute to your
relationship struggles. So much of the suffering experienced in
relationships stems from this fear of abandonment, yet very little
is offered to help those who confront this in their lives. In
Love Me, Don't Leave Me, Michelle Skeen offers powerful
insights, and, most importantly, tools to help successfully
navigate how this fear plays out in relationships. Now, get a
pencil and start to read and follow the instructions. You will be
glad you did."
--Thomas Roberts, LCSW,
psychotherapist; clinical hypnotherapist; mindfulness and
meditation teacher and retreat leader; and author of The
Mindfulness Workbook
"In this insightful and compassionate book, Michelle Skeen has
illuminated two crucial aspects that govern relationship issues in
today's world: She asks the readers to delve deeply into themselves
to resolve what they may be contributing to repeated unsatisfactory
relationships, understanding fully that significant change happens
first within the self. She then clearly states what traps lie in
wait for those who unwittingly recommit to partners who continue to
evoke negative triggers from past relationships. Her writing is
concise and wonderfully clear, with many excellent exercises to
give the reader the opportunity to make actual positive
changes."
--Randi Gunther, PhD, clinical psychologist and
author of Relationship Saboteurs and When Love
Stumbles
"Michelle Skeen's Love Me, Don't Leave Me is a smart book.
She uses sound exercises and worksheets to help anyone suffering
from abandonment find their triggers and develop mindfulness skills
for communicating in healthier relationships. Anyone who wants to
understand their own needs and learn how to change their
relationships with their thoughts and emotions should read this
book."
--Tammy Nelson, PhD, psychotherapist,
international speaker, and author of The New Monogamy,
Getting the Sex You Want, and What's Eating
You?
"This book offers elegant pathways toward the self-understanding
that creates lifelong, loving relationships. I wholeheartedly
recommend it to anyone who has ever suffered in the name of
love."
--Jason B. Fischer, MA, LPC, author of The Two
Truths about Love: The Art & Wisdom of Extraordinary
Relationships
"With compassionate and loving clarity, Michelle Skeen guides us
through our labyrinths of unworthiness and fear to discover in our
own deep being that we have always been enough and we no longer
need all the barriers to love that we have created in our lives.
This book is for everyone that would find and live in the joy and
fulfillment of lasting, loving relationships."
--Steve Flowers, MFT, author of The Mindful
Path through Shyness and coauthor of Living with Your
Heart Wide Open
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