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...
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Friday, May 16th, 2025Recognizing 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... -
Thursday, May 15th, 2025Working 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... -
Wednesday, May 14th, 2025Love 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... -
Tuesday, May 13th, 2025Accepting 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... -
Monday, May 12th, 2025Entitlement
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... -
Sunday, May 11th, 2025The Hawthorne Effect
Accountability breeds success. Have you ever been jogging or riding your bike and you thought you were doing great and then someone passed you? If so, what did you... -
Saturday, May 10th, 2025Developing Obstacle Immunity
Obstacles do not block the path. They are the path. Life constantly presents difficulties—financial challenges, injury, illness, flat tires, tornadoes, and all sorts of other crazy and totally unexpected... -
Friday, May 9th, 2025The ‘G’ Word
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Some recovering sex and porn addicts, especially those new to recovery, can get turned off by other addicts’ use...