Ghosted And Breadcrumbed review: Dr Marni Feuerman helps women stop falling for unavailable men and get smart about healthy relationships.
Licensed marriage and family therapist, Dr. Marni Feuerman has written a best-selling book for women.
In it, she draws on her decades of expertise in Attachment Theory to empower smart women who struggle in unhealthy romantic relationships.
Specifically, Dr. Feuerman aims to help these women break free from unfulfilling patterns with emotionally unavailable men that leave them stuck and unable to find true love.
Dr. Feuerman has devoted her career to helping women in heterosexual relationships.
She aims to assist them in understanding a common problem - why they unwittingly fall for unavailable men so often.
When this happens, these women get stuck. They are unable to move forward and create the kinds of healthy relationships that provide the love they truly need and deserve.
Ghosted and Breadcrumbed provides practical advice for recognizing red flags early, exiting destructive relationships skillfully, managing painful emotions, and changing negative patterns.
Dr Feuerman focuses on helping women avoid painful relationships with those who are emotionally unavailable, noncommittal, married/committed to someone else, or simply not interested.
With compassionate understanding grounded in decades of clinical experience and psychological research, Dr. Feuerman empowers women to transform their relationship patterns and forge new healthy connections.
Ghosted and Breadcrumbed is an invaluable book for any smart woman wanting to stop chasing emotionally unsober men and create relationships full of the love, care, and support they deeply desire.
Ghosted and Breadcrumbed covers attachment theory, the science of love, and emotional needs to explain why we attract and accept poor treatment and lack emotional connection from partners.
Dr. Feuerman offers profound and insightful reasons why we often reject the good yet become stuck on those even pathologically cruel.
The book introduces tools like **GET SMART to manage difficult emotions skillfully and change negative patterns that leave us feeling rejected or wasting time on dead-end relationships.
** These therapeutic coping strategies, which are thoroughly explained in Chapter 9, make up the acronym GET SMART:
• G — Goal orientation
• E — Emotion management
• T — Thought restructuring
• S — Self-soothing
• M — Mindfulness
• A — Attachment style
• R — Reaching out to others
• T — Transformed behavior
Dr Feuerman helps women understand the historical factors driving their choices so they can forge a new healthier relationship path forward.
The emphasis is on understanding and changing internal barriers first, since creating healthy relationships means not just finding an available partner, but becoming the kind of person capable of ide
Ghosted and Breadcrumbed provides the clarity, confidence and strategies to help women finally break free from relationships that provide inadequate love.
It is a must-read for anyone finding themselves repeatedly drawn to emotionally unavailable men and wanting to successfully change direction.
Profile of a Typical Case Study
Beth's painful situation provides an illustrative case study from Ghosted and Breadcrumbed.
She spent years entangled in an unhealthy relationship with Jon, a married man who strung her along with false promises.
Beth believed Jon's claim that his marriage was just a relationship of convenience and they'd be together once it ended.
Yet when Jon did get divorced, he abruptly ghosted Beth, leaving her distraught.
She had ignored many red flags and became overly invested in this emotionally unavailable man who likely viewed her as temporary, not a real partner.
Ghosted and Breadcrumbed examines the psychological patterns and misconceptions that entrap smart women like Beth in unfulfilling situations.
Dr. Feuerman's insights reveal how Beth's choices reflect common issues like attachment anxiety, ignoring intuition, and sacrificing self-respect for unrequited love.
The book helps women avoid similarly wasted time and heartbreak with noncommittal partners. Feuerman's practical advice and GET SMART system provide tools to:
A key strength of Ghosted and Breadcrumbed is Dr. Feuerman's deeply compassionate, insightful approach to a painful topic.
She understands women who unwittingly pursue unhealthy relationships are not to blame, but rather caught in subconscious patterns and cultural conditioning.
The book provides practical, actionable advice and strategies, not just theory, to help women change these patterns and forge new relationship habits.
Tools like the GET SMART system give clear steps to implement in everyday life.
Checklists of red flags are included to assist readers in quickly identifying unhealthy patterns early before becoming enmeshed.
Relatable case studies and examples make abstract concepts concrete and easier to apply personally.
Ghosted and Breadcrumbed has been panned in some reviews due to it being somewhat limited in focusing primarily on heterosexual relationships and could benefit from expanding to be more inclusive.
Personally, this was not something I consciously thought about. This is an excellent book. It has helped thousands of women become more aware.
Dr. Feuerman avoids victim-blaming mentality and puts responsibility for change on examining one's own choices and narratives.
Overall, Ghosted and Breadcrumbed offers deep insights. The book serves as an actionable guide that helps women avoid heartbreak.
Specifically, it teaches how to avoid entanglements with emotionally unavailable men.
Additionally, it shows how to establish healthy love.
The book compassionately empowers women. It is rooted in psychological research and clinical expertise.
With this knowledge, women can transform even the most painful patterns. By doing so, they create opportunities for self-growth and fulfillment.
Elise Straub, a counselor from Salem OR said, "This book's takeaways are empowering for women to improve self-esteem, enforce boundaries, nurture emotional needs, and make healthy choices that ultimately attract true connection.
I recommend it to all my clients. I also recommend they get it in audiobook form so they can review specific sections, any time, from their phones.
You are not to blame for faulty wiring from past experiences or social conditioning.
But you have the power to rewrite your relationship story to one with healthy love, mutual care and respect."
For any woman trapped in the frustrating cycle of pursuing unhealthy relationships with emotionally unavailable partners, Dr. Feuerman's book Ghosted and Breadcrumbed is highly recommended.
She illuminates the all-too-common patterns that leave smart women undervalued, unfulfilled, and heartbroken.
This book is grounded in psychological expertise and real-world case studies.
It provides more than just understanding. It also offers hope for positive change.
Specifically, it helps women understand why they fall for unavailable men. Additionally, it shows how they can change ingrained habits.
Dr. Feuerman lays out a roadmap filled with practical strategies.
These strategies empower women to stop attracting the wrong partners. Partners who are unable to meet their needs.
With this roadmap, women can finally build healthy and reciprocal relationships. The kind of relationships they truly deserve.
The journey of growth requires both courage and diligence. Still, Ghosted and Breadcrumbed is designed to help.
It gently guides women through the transformation process. This includes transforming limiting beliefs, managing difficult emotions with skill, and asserting self-worth in dating.
Women will discover how they can rewrite previous stories of unrequited love into a new narrative of mutual care, respect and commitment.
For any woman dissatisfied with her romantic patterns and partnerships, Dr Feuerman’s insights are essential reading to empower yourself towards positive change.
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