S12e8: Andy Milberg – Exploring the Negative Love Syndrome

About this episode

Andy Milberg discusses the Negative Love Syndrome and its impact on personal behavior and growth.

“ It’s huge to find out that who you are is really not who you’re afraid you are, and not all the patterns you’ve been acting out. ” – Andy Milberg Andy Milberg Beloved Hoffman teacher, Andy Milberg , has been teaching the Process since August 1991. Bob Hoffman, founder of the Hoffman Process , trained Andy to become a teacher. One thing Andy is known for is his articulate, nuanced ability to explain the foundational theory of the Process – Negative Love. Drew and Andy dive deep into the Negative Love Syndrome and how it plays out in our lives. Showing how nuanced this syndrome is, he shares that he is still discovering more subtle ways this plays out in his life, even these many years later. Bob Hoffman Andy shares a fair amount of Hoffman history. He explains that Bob Hoffman was concerned with the pain human beings seem to experience and sought a way to be free of it. Bob asked two very important questions. The first was, “Why do seemingly rational adults continue to act out, automatically, compulsively, in self-defeating ways?” The second question was, W hy is it so hard to change that behavior? Bob Hoffman discovered this…

People in this episode

Host: Drew

Guest: Andy Milberg

Topics covered

• Negative Love Syndrome
• Hoffman Process
• personal growth
• self-discovery
• behavior change

Keywords

• Negative Love
• Hoffman Process
• self-defeating behavior
• personal development
• emotional patterns

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hoffman Institute Foundation

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