Are You in Love with a Vampire?: Healing the Relationship Drain Game

by Helaine Z. Harris

Book Overview

Are You In Love with a Vampire? picks up where books about codependency leave off. It deals with energy patterns in relationships, how and why we pull on each other for that vital life force-energy,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965234347
• ISBN13: 9780965234344
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Awakening Publishing Company
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

-A pleasure to read-

Helaine shares her own personal journey with her readers, weaving theory, practicality and hope throughout. From learning about personal energy to recognizing energy vampires, this book has reinterpreted an age-old problem into contemporary language. The book is easy to read and understand so that anyone can benefit from its information. The author describes the various types of "Vampire Relationships" and why they flourish. She gives hope and help to those in these types of relarionships, so that victims may not only recognize, but also escape from them.The book is both provocative and practical. Thereis an especially interesting easy-to-use chart in which Harris compares the Vampire Relationship with co-dependent and healthy relationships. Some readers may be surprized by her conclusions.Along with its cautions and hopes, the author's own journey motivates readers to look within to find answers. Whether or not your in love with a vampire, you will find Harrs' investigation both fascinating and enjoyable.

A book of wisdom

"This is a book of wisdom about matters that speak directly to our Souls! A 'must read' for this crucial time of rapid transformation"

On the order of "LIFESAVING"

This rather chilling title gives a pretty good clue to what you're in for. Harris takes readers on a journey of exploration into one of the most frightening aspects of the unconscious dynamics of close relationships-the potential for draining another's life energy. It's uncanny how close to literal truth the fantastic vampire stories we like to "entertain" ourselves with may be. The author's couragous accounts of some of her own experiences suggest that she really know whereof she speaks. The book not only helps to identify the vampiring phenomenon in relationships-and to distinguish it from codependency-but is a virtual workbook of practical techniques and exercises to deal with the probelm. The book makes a valuable contribution-perhaps on the order of "lifesaving" as was the case with Robin Norwood's Women Who Love Too Much-to the literature of empowerment and personal healing.

A remarkable journey of discovery and healing

"Helaine's courageous and insightful perspective sheds light on this 'shadow' part of us, her compassion and understanding help heal it. I encourage everyone who has experienced pain in relationship to read this book."