Author Archives: Scott Brassart

  • Learning to Disagree in Healthy and Productive Ways
    Sunday, May 18th, 2025

    Learning to Disagree in Healthy and Productive Ways

    Honest disagreement is a sign of relationship progress. Disagreements are inevitable in any relationship. And that’s a good thing. Believe it or not, differing opinions can evolve into deeper...
  • Anonymity and 12-Step Meetings
    Saturday, May 17th, 2025

    Anonymity and 12-Step Meetings

    The fears we don’t face become our limits. Sometimes, especially when we are new to recovery, we resist the idea of participating in 12-step sexual recovery groups. Usually, we’re...
  • Recognizing Sex and Porn Addiction
    Friday, May 16th, 2025

    Recognizing Sex and Porn Addiction

    Sobriety costs nothing. Addiction taxes the soul. The core signs and symptoms of sex and porn addiction are the same regardless of age, race, gender, social history, and psychological...
  • Working Step 5
    Thursday, May 15th, 2025

    Working Step 5

    Lies and secrets are cancer to the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only carnage behind. Plenty of recovering sex and porn addicts tell themselves that...
  • Love Addiction vs. Sex Addiction
    Wednesday, May 14th, 2025

    Love Addiction vs. Sex Addiction

    Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping-stones to success. Love addicts use romantic fantasy and the intense neurochemical rush caused by being ‘deeply in love’ to achieve...
  • Accepting Life on Life’s Terms
    Tuesday, May 13th, 2025

    Accepting Life on Life’s Terms

    The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous has a passage that states, “Acceptance is the answer to all...
  • Entitlement
    Monday, May 12th, 2025

    Entitlement

    When we feel entitled to something, we’ll step all over someone else to get it. As sex and porn addicts, we often feel entitled to act out. We convince...