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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