Limerence: Episode 3


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Hal spoke of taming the animal within. But I think he was wrong. I think we're meant to let it free. Josi is lost in the wilderness, surrounded by the savagery of an animal world. With the horror of her memories finally revealed, she becomes more and more like the creatures holding her captive. This is what it takes to survive, and surviving is what Josephine does. If cutting ties to her once-happy life is the price she must pay for the atrocities she's committed, then cut them she will. Love slips through hands drenched in blood, after all, and Falon Shay must die. But what exactly is she fighting for, if she truly believes that love can be cured? In the conclusion to the thrilling dystopian trilogy The Cure, Josephine and Luke face the greatest enemy of all: the one that lies within. Perfect for fans of Pierce Brown, Laini Taylor and Maggie Stiefvater.




Limerence: Episode 2


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Killing a Blood asks for a piece of your soul. The Josephine that has returned to the tunnels is a version broken by her disappearance. And while she is propelling the resistance fighters toward action, demanding knife-edge precision, Luke is tormented by his lost memories and the transformation of his wife. His desperation to understand grows by the day, threatening his ability to lead his people. As relationships shift, new alliances form and secrets hang heavy, the tunnels grow ever more dangerous. Who exactly has Josephine Luquet become, and what is she hiding? Perfect for fans of Pierce Brown, Laini Taylor and Maggie Stiefvater.




Limerence: Episode 1


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No injection can cure love. Only life can do that. Deep in the darkest tunnels hide the last of the resistance fighters. Hunted by the savage Furies and the ruthless Bloods, they live in constant peril. The only means of survival is to seek strength in family and find courage in love. So what happens when love is cured, scoured away, leaving death in its place? In the final battle for freedom, there are no lines that won't be crossed. And for Josi this means becoming the creature she fears most of all: the girl with a blood moon heart. The gripping conclusion to the dystopian trilogy The Cure, Limerence is a love story for the monsters within. Perfect for fans of Pierce Brown, Laini Taylor and Maggie Stiefvater.




Love and Limerence


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Love and Limerence


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Excellent. Of universal interest. It deals with the subject in an entirely new way.-Simone de Beauvoir Originally released twenty years ago, Love and Limerence has become a classic in the psychology of emotion. As relevant today as it was then, this book offers insight into love, infatuation, madness, and all flavors of emotion in between.




Romantic Love and Sexual Behavior


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Westerners believe that love makes life worth living; that sex is a natural desire different in kind from love; and that only cynics reduce our love life to a calculation of economic or genetic factors. In this volume, essays explore these and other assumptions about the relationship between romantic love and sex. This represents the first interdisciplinary social science study of love and sex. Contributors ask and answer questions such as: Is love just sex idealized, or is it a transcendent and divine emotion? Is love a cultural construct that is shared by members of the same culture, or is it a matter of personal taste? What keeps promiscuous people from using condoms even when they know they are at risk? Are black professional men so rare that their conceptions of love and sex differ from those of white professional men? Are brutal sexual fantasies an exclusively male domain, and are they always excluded from love fantasies among normal adolescents? Is divorce a culturally induced response to evolutionary reproductive strategies that compel individuals to maximize their genetic legacy? Are marriages or relationships less satisfying or stable when an actual mate falls short of the fantasy of the ideal mate? Is there a universal core to love and sex that is camouflaged by other cultural norms such as modesty and sexual segregation? Is rape perceived as more acceptable when the rapist says he was motivated by love? What do cult movements and romantic love have in common? As they attempt to answer these and other questions, the authors extend our understanding of the variety of ways that love and sex are conceptualized, connected, or separated.




The Limerent Mind


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When I started this project, I knew I was committing to producing something that would render you completely immune to limerence. As a neuroscientist who used to suffer horrifically from the condition but is now completely free, I want nothing more than for all of you to achieve the same. If you heed the advice in this book and commit to your own expansion, I can guarantee that you will never fall for an LO again. Limerence is possibly the most tenacious, painful behavioural pattern that exists. Many people remain trapped in its grips for decades, which is devastating when only a few weeks/months of implementing the correct thinking patterns can transform your subconscious mind and free you.Intense unrequited love is a multi-faceted, incredibly complex phenomenon, so we must comprehend every possible facet of limerence and reconcile all of the different ways that we break it down. Neurobiology, psychology or spirituality all describe the same phenomenon in different terms - but what is at the ROOT of this disorder?You will learn: - The role that genetics plays in priming you for limerence- The brain regions that activate during limerence, and what this reveals about how to cure it- Dopamine, reward pathways, and the reason why anticipation of future times with this person are so euphoric- Why other people transition into real relationships, yet you attract unrequited love- How to discover the precise psychological needs that YOU have but are neglecting (and how to honour them)- Thoughts, beliefs, and how these actively dictate what every aspect of our lives is like- How to ascertain which particular beliefs of yours are a). limiting and b). aligning you with limerence- All about limerent objects (LOs): common traits that they have- Your trigger archetype: why do you fall for the people you fall for?- The Law of Assumption: where spirituality meets science- How to change your beliefs and meet your needs, which in turns heals your brain, balances your neurotransmitters and promises you permanent emotional freedom- The benefits of being limerence prone: how your obsessive and motivated disposition will make you incredibly successful (far more so than your calmer, more stable friends) once you detach from person addiction and start to live for yourself.Once we've appreciated all the different aspects of a single limerent episode, you will learn how to methodically rewire your brain. Many obese people think that they can't quit sugar, but the proactive ones do and then remain skinny for life. Similarly, you are wholly capable of becoming a version of yourself who isn't just 'limerence-free', but who could never even fall for a limerent object in the first place. Your current reality is just the reflection of your beliefs and thoughts; change these, and the external world will rearrange in front of your eyes and you will effortlessly attract real, beautiful love.Limerence becomes your norm, but it isn't normal; recovery is essential and non-negotiable. Give yourself your best chance in this life and leave limerence behind now, rather than having to go through this transition in 10 years time. Bliss, clarity and pure, magical abundance awaits you! Plus, someone who's limerence-prone but has *beaten* limerence possesses major advantages in this world, both socially and professionally. ✨ The same genetics that let you 'fixate' on an LO render you driven, smart, articulate, intense and passionate.It just takes educating yourself, unsticking your brain and redirecting your inner flame towards wonderful things




The Art of Falling in Love


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Describes the lovepath, the author's process for finding and maintaining true love.




The Social Animal


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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success happens, told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica. Drawing on a wealth of current research from numerous disciplines, Brooks takes Harold and Erica from infancy to old age, illustrating a fundamental new understanding of human nature along the way: The unconscious mind, it turns out, is not a dark, vestigial place, but a creative one, where most of the brain’s work gets done. This is the realm where character is formed and where our most important life decisions are made—the natural habitat of The Social Animal. Brooks reveals the deeply social aspect of our minds and exposes the bias in modern culture that overemphasizes rationalism, individualism, and IQ. He demolishes conventional definitions of success and looks toward a culture based on trust and humility. The Social Animal is a moving intellectual adventure, a story of achievement and a defense of progress. It is an essential book for our time—one that will have broad social impact and will change the way we see ourselves and the world.




Adult Attachment


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This book draws together the diverse strands of attachment theory into a coherent contemporary account. It examines the links between attachment and other central life tasks such as work, and the issues of conceptualisation and measurement.