IS IT LOVE OR IS IT ADDICTION? 15 – 17 September 2007

Love is a fact of life. No one escapes its effects. A love relationship can be the most profound experience or a place of confusion, hurt and injury. However, addictive love can creep into the best of relationships. The challenges facing those suffering from love addiction is to learn what true love is and is not, to acknowledge addictive elements, to build on the best aspects of love and to help establish a way of loving that bonds us with others and yet allows us our freedom.

Life Works (www.lifeworkscommunity.com), one of Europe’s leading addiction treatment centres, is inviting Dr Brenda Schaeffer - an internationally known author, experienced therapist and speaker over from the USA to offer her experience as a psychotherapist on the very emotive subject of love and addiction. She will advise couples that are ready to have healthier love lives and to move beyond co-dependency, compulsive love and romance and sex addiction. The workshop is also aimed at professionals wanting to learn more about this relationship problem.

The workshop objectives are:

- To identify and understand what love addiction is and the 3 different types - love, sex and romance.
- To identify ways to build healthy and unhealthy relationships.
- To develop techniques to explore beliefs and fears that prevent real intimacy.
- To identify the 7 steps to healthy love.
- To discover and challenge personal obstacles to healthy love.


The three-day course costs £695 per person and will take place at Life Works London premises which are found at:

Life Works
No.4 Duke Street
London
W1U 3EL


For further information contact Abbie Salisbury/Beccy Whittles, MAX PR & Events Ltd
020 8334 5749 / beccy@maxpr-events.com


Biography
Dr. Schaeffer, D.Min is an internationally known author, experienced therapist and speaker. Brenda Schaeffer has been a featured writer in several magazines. She is the author of the newly released book Love or Addiction: The Power and Peril of Teen Sex and Romance, and of numerous best sellers, including Love's Way; Is It Love or Is It Addiction?; Loving Me Loving You; Signs of Healthy Love; Signs of Addictive Love; Power Plays; and Helping Yourself Out of Love Addiction. Brenda has also produced a guided meditation CD, 'Inner Reflections'.

With over 500,000 of her publications in print, Brenda has already helped thousands of people to understand the difference between healthy love and love addiction, drawing from her own experiences and many years of work as a psychotherapist. She has been invited to present keynote workshops and to train nationally and internationally. Brenda has been featured on hundreds of radio and TV shows.

Brenda is a licensed psychologist and a certified addictions specialist in the area of sexual addictions. She believes painful life events, including those in our love life, can act as wake up calls. She is currently Director of Healthy Relationships, Inc. in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she conducts therapy, training and workshops. She has had expert training in hypnosis, developmental psychology, transactional analysis, gestalt, sexual addiction and existential and transpersonal psychology.