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Susan Peabody
peabodys@sbcglobal.net
www.brightertomorrow.net
510-848-7188

Published Books:

Addiction to Love: Overcoming Obsession and Dependency in Relationships. Ten Speed Press / Celestial Arts, Berkeley, CA , 1989. Expanded edition 1994. New printing and cover 2005.

The Art of Changing: Your Path to a Better Life, Ten Speed Press/Celestial Arts, Berkeley CA , April 2005.

Published Self-Help Articles:

  • "Seductive Withholders," Alumbo (July 2005)
  • “Putting Out the Flame of Desire: More About Love Addiction,” Alumbo (May 2004)
  • “The Pleasure Compulsion: Play It Again Sam,” Self Growth (November 2003)
  • “Hot and Cold Love Addicts: A Lethal Combination,” Mental Health World (Winter 2000)
  • "Typical Kinds of Love Addicts," Love Addicts Anonymous website
  • “Self-Esteem and Recovery from Addiction,” Recovering (January 1992)
  • “Addiction to Love: Crimes of the Heart,” Recovering (August 1991)
  • “Hopeless Relationships With Unavailable People,” Recovering (June 1991)

Published Christian Articles:

  • “In the Garden with Christ: Depression & the Dark Night of the Soul,” Spectrum (forthcoming)
  • “The Power of Prayer,” Signs of the Times, (March 2005)
  • “Do You Want to Get Well? Signs of the Times, (January 2005)
  • “Cleansing the Temple: Putting Anger into Perspective,” Christian Paradise (May 2004)
  • “Becoming a Christian: The Art of Changing,” Christian Paradise (April 2004)
  • “Unconditional Love Revisited,” Spectrum (November 2003)
  • “It is Not a Sin to Love Yourself,” Spectrum (August 2003)
  • “Do You Want to Get Well?” Spectrum (July 2003)
  • “Amazing Shame,” Spectrum (August 2002)
  • “The New Trinity,” Spectrum (Februry 2002)
  • “Must We Know Christ to be Saved?” Spectrum (November 2001)
  • “What Prayer Can Do,” Guideposts (May 2001)
  • “Love Your Enemies,” Quaker Life (September 1992)
  • “And a Little Child Shall Lead Them,” Quaker Life (March 1987)
  • “My Son’s Prayer,” The Grapevine (May 1985)

Education:

A.B., University of California, Berkeley, 1978
Teaching Credential, University of California, Berkeley, 1979

Teaching:

1985 to present: The Learning Annex, Piedmont Adult School, San Lorenzo Adult School, Kaiser Hospital, Mandana Recovery Center, U.S. Post Office Employee Assistance Program. Classes taught: Addiction to Love; Building Self-Esteem; Relationships in Recovery.

I have been quoted, and my book cited, in the following magazines:

  • L.A. Times, Chicago Tribune, Dear Amy (Ann Landers’s successor)
  • Istanbul.com (foreign language perioical)
  • Female Network.com
  • Cosmopolitan Phillippines
  • The Echo
  • Cosmopolitan
  • The Dallas Morning News
  • Berkeley Insider
  • Rocky Mountain News
  • The Faithist Journal
  • Townsend Letter for Doctors
  • L.A. Today
  • Insight
  • Lady Athena (online magazine)
  • Artículos (foreign language magazine)
  • A Spiritual Woman.com
  • Dr. Irene’s Verbal Abuse Site

    Radio & Television

  • The Starting Over House, nationally syndicated television reality series.
  • Radio interviews about my book, Addiction to Love, all over the country since 1989.

Interviews:

  • Cosmopolitan: July 2000, September 1999, December 1998.

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