Today I want to talk to you about why regular therapy usually does not work to treat love addiction.  
 
What’s love addiction? Well, if you find yourself loving someone with such an intensity that at the end of the day you’re left feeling in pain and emotionally drained; or if you feel a profound need to receive love, acceptance and approval from others, and when you don’t think you are getting it, you feel as if you have little worth… among other things, that’s love addiction.   
 
From the time we are born, especially from the ages zero through five, we’re pretty unconscious. We begin developing consciousness in our pre-frontal cortex at about the age of six. Anything we see during this time, or experience – especially with our parents – goes into the back of our brain, our limbic area, where they are stored as memories. That’s our unconscious.  
 
About 80% of what we do in our adult life is ruled by our unconscious mind; by our thoughts, feelings, perceptions of our parents, our culture...