This is the official website of Dusty Miller, Ed.D, writer, therapist, trainer and consultant. She is the author of "Women Who Hurt Themselves" and co-author of " Addictions and Trauma Recovery: Healing the Body, Mind and Spirit", a treatment manual for ATRIUM, a 12- session recovery model designed for groups as well as for individuals and their therapists/couselors. Her last book is a workbook called " Your Surviving Spirit."

Dusty Miller will be the workshop leader for the full Day #1 of the Pandora's Box Conference in Philadelphia on June 11th. For more information, please visit the Pandora's Box Conference web site.

Buy Dusty Miller's new book at your local bookstore or click for amazon link!

Dusty Miller Book Reading
Broadside Bookshop
247 Main Street Northampton
Tuesday April 15 at 7pm

Synopsis
In a relationship mismatch often observed by couples' therapists, one partner exhibits a fear of or inability to create intimacy or closeness with the other. He or she actively creates emotional, communicative, or even physical distance from his or her partner. Therapists often refer to this individual as a "distancer." Distancers are often afraid of being engulfed or controlled by their partners. They fear rejection, vulnerability, and dependence. Stop Running from Love presents a clear, step-by-step approach distancers can use to move beyond their fear of intimacy and start building strong and lasting relationships
Exercises and self-evaluations in the book help you become aware of how you operate in romantic relationships. You'll review and reassess your relationship patterns, deciding what changes you want to make. You'll then commit to actions that can make it happen. Since distancers often externalize their problems in relationships, transferring blame for relational problems onto their partners, the book works to help them give up the illusion that they can change others. Instead, it shows them how to engage with their partners to create a positive new relationship dynamic.