Your opinions are your windows to the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in. In some quarters, there is a fear that...

You can’t change what you refuse to confront. In Step 6, you identified your character defects and became willing to live without them. Step 7 is the logical continuation...

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. In sexual recovery, we create clear and concise sexual sobriety plans to define what sexual...

Addicts are people who are trying to escape from a reality in which they are not. Addiction is often referred to as a disease of perception. Even when the...

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, it’s to schedule your priorities. One recovering sex addict with a demanding job, a spouse, and three kids says...

It is clear that we make our own misery. In our addiction and as recovering people, we sometimes hurt the people we love by trying to ‘help them’ when...

Addiction is not rational. It is culture, habit, and craving. Triggers are the thoughts and feelings that induce the strong desire—the craving—to engage in an addictive behavior. When addiction...

Nothing in your life will work unless you do. Once upon a time, a sportswriter called baseball star Joe DiMaggio ‘a natural.’ DiMaggio was annoyed. The next time he...

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. Humility is often conflated with humiliation, but they are not the same thing. Humiliation...