I love that you included the positive impact that companion animals can have on our lives.

Look forward to your videos. Appreciate your wisdom and straightforward delivery, hard to hear sometimes but so essential for acceptance and healing. As an HSP the process feels harder, almost impossible. Gotta keep trying I guess. Thank you for your help.

This is excellent!! Thank you!

For the past year I’ve made it a priority to develop my capacity to sit with shame and not resist it. It’s been so effective, I think quitting weed, at least temporarily, is possible now.

I like your videos as soon as i click cz i knoe they are going to be beyond amazing!!❤

Thanks for another great upload! ❤

Hi. I've been following your videos on limerence for a while now, after finding out that how I felt had a name. I wanted to improve my understanding, and I've found your videoes tremendously helpful, thank you. For me, it was food in my teens, drugs at college, my twenties and thirties it was porn, and latterly it was alcohol, though being from the U.K. where binge drinking is practically a sport, I'm surprised it took until my mid thirties for it to become a problem. I'm now 45 and 6 years sober. I was thinking recently about the cycle of addiction that seems to have occupied much of my adult life, I've been fortunate that changes in my circumstances helped me break free from a number of those things, but the fundamental cycle of addictive behaviour endured until I chose to recognise, acknowledge and change, which has been the last 6 years of my life. Of the things I mentioned, alcohol has been by far the easiest to free myself from, aa it has been the first time I actually had the conscious desire to change, rather than simply the luck of circumstance. For me, it helped to have a role model, my limerent object, infact, who'd already been through that process, and my imagined sense of obligation helped me get over the initial hump of making that change. Alcohol had not only been a distraction, a way of self-medicating, but being fully aware of the harm it was doing, it became my form self harming, my punishment for the cycle of addiction I perpetuated and the shame I carry. I feel the key that has enabled me to make that change was choosing to not treat myself like s##t any more, I even said that to myself, "I don't want to treat myself like s##t any more", and I repeat that simple phrase if I ever need a reminder. Having that fixed in my mind, a positive goal outside of the cycle I'd become so used to I think gave me the freedom and motivation to seek alternative ways to live, to understand and address that damaging behaviour, to engage with counselling and begin to work through the underlying issues that resulted in me entering tbat cycle to begin with. It's taken 45 years, but I think it's never too late to begin to live in better ways, and I'm glad for eveey single step I'm able to take in that direction and away from where I used to be. Also, I've always enjoyed being outside in nature, I'm lucky to have lived near green spaces most of my life, walking has always felt cathartic for me, but I realised fairly recently that it's also the engagement or re-engagement of the senses that I gained so much from, the ever-present reminders of my presence, my basic existence. I'd felt it so often before, but never really appreciated why it until recently, being able to understand the value of it. As a devoted dog person, I also have to agree that cats are very much indeed, cats, and we all need to just accept them for what they are, because it is what they are. I'm sorry for massively over-sharing, as you can imagine I don't often get the opportunity, so then I just end up dumping, but I can assure you it won't happen again. But thank you anyway for sharing your knowledge and insight, I appreciate it.

Thank you..

Please explain what does a person feel when getting rid of addiction or limerance per se!!

Thank you.