The Way You Show Up

Breaking the Cycle: Understanding and Overcoming Love Addiction and Toxic Relationships with Sherry Gaba

Kimberly Beam Holmes, Expert in Self-Improvement & Relationships Episode 137

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What is the story you're telling yourself that isn't serving you? That's the question Kimberly challenges us this week as we talk about love addictions with Sherry Gaba.

Today's Guest: Sherry Gaba
Sherry Gaba, LCSW, is a licensed psychotherapist and life coach who helps people cope with codependency, love addiction, toxic relationships, and mental health issues. Sherry is a single mother and once her daughter was old enough, Sherry returned to school to receive her Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California.

 

As a leading expert on addiction and recovery, Sherry’s TV appearances include: VH1’s Celebrity Rehab, CNN, Inside Edition, the Robert Irvine Show and Access Live, E! News, among others. She has been featured in Cosmopolitan, Women’s World, the LA Times, Thrive Global, the New York Post, Marriage.com, and Psychology Today. She has also guested many times on SiriusXM radio shows and now hosts her own podcast, The Love Fix.


Sherry is the author of Love Smacked, in which Sherry addresses relationship addiction and codependency, and is a contributing writer to the book Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times Tough People.

 

Sherry maintains a private practice and is the founder of Wake-Up Recovery, an online group coaching program that applies the principles of positive psychology, law of attraction, and mindfulness for codependents, love addicts, and toxic relationships.  


For more information, go to www.SherryGaba.com  


Books :


Love Smacked: How to Stop the Cycle of Relationship Addiction and Codependency to Find Everlasting Love https://www.amazon.com/dp/1628657405?tag=psychologytod-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1

Infinite Recovery: 6 Steps of Mindfulness, Positive Thinking, and the Law of Attraction to Break Free from Addiction https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07T4GLDFX?tag=psychologytod-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1


Your Host: Kimberly Beam Holmes, Expert in Self-Improvement and Relationships

Kimberly Beam Holmes has applied her master's degree in psychology for over ten years, acting as the CEO of Marriage Helper & CEO and Creator of PIES University, being a wife and mother herself, and researching how attraction affects relationships. Her videos, podcasts, and following reach over 200,000 people a month who are making changes and bec


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