Tag Archives: 12-Step Recovery

  • Using Your Sponsor
    Friday, November 1st, 2024

    Using Your Sponsor

    A sponsor is someone who knows all about you and still wants to help you. Sponsors provide guidance and much-needed support to recovering sex and porn addicts as they...
  • Treatment Won’t Cure Me?
    Saturday, October 19th, 2024

    Treatment Won’t Cure Me?

    There is no cure for addiction, but it can be put into remission. Newly recovering sex and porn addicts sometimes wonder why everyone (rehabs, therapists, fellow recovering addicts) seems...
  • The ‘God’ Issue in 12-Step Recovery
    Wednesday, October 9th, 2024

    The ‘God’ Issue in 12-Step Recovery

    Belief in a specific religion is not a requirement for sobriety. Many sex and porn addicts new to 12-step recovery (and even some who’ve been around for awhile) struggle...
  • Finding the Right 12-Step Meetings
    Sunday, August 4th, 2024

    Finding the Right 12-Step Meetings

    Decisions are easy when you know what you value. Not every sexual recovery meeting is the same. Yes, most meetings are based on the same basic literature and follow...
  • FAQ for 12-Step Recovery, with Tami and Scott
    Wednesday, May 29th, 2024

    FAQ for 12-Step Recovery, with Tami and Scott

    FAQ for 12-Step Recovery, with Tami and Scott In this episode of Overcoming Betrayal and Addiction, Tami VerHelst and Scott Brassart answer common questions people new to recovery might...
  • What is a Sponsor?
    Tuesday, April 30th, 2024

    What is a Sponsor?

    Sponsors light the torches that lead others through the dark. Sponsors are personal guides to healing and staying sexually sober, usually not friends to begin with and never lovers....
  • 12-Step Recovery Programs
    Wednesday, April 6th, 2022

    12-Step Recovery Programs

    In this episode of Overcoming Betrayal and Addiction, Dr. Rob and Tami talk about 12-step programs, ambivalent love, and how partners can support addicts through their own roller coaster...
  • Do What Your Sponsor Says
    Wednesday, December 16th, 2020

    Do What Your Sponsor Says

    In this episode of Overcoming Betrayal & Addiction, Dr. Rob and Tami discuss whether exhibitionists are sex offenders. They also share free ways to get mental health resources and...