Tag Archives: 12 Steps

  • Sharing Your Step One Inventories
    Monday, January 22nd, 2024

    Sharing Your Step One Inventories

    Letting go of secrets gives you the freedom to move forward with a different, better life. For most recovering sex and porn addicts, creating powerlessness and unmanageability inventories is...
  • Working Step One: The Unmanageability Inventory
    Monday, January 15th, 2024

    Working Step One: The Unmanageability Inventory

    Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more consequences and failing to understand that we, not others, are at fault. One way to measure the unmanageability of...
  • Working Step One: The Powerlessness Inventory
    Monday, January 8th, 2024

    Working Step One: The Powerlessness Inventory

    Step 1 reinforces our ‘moment of clarity,’ cementing our desire for recovery. Being powerless means we have lost control over our sexual behaviors. We engage in these behaviors compulsively,...
  • The Need to Work Step One
    Monday, January 1st, 2024

    The Need to Work Step One

    The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. In 12-Step sexual recovery meetings, we often hear discussion about ‘hitting bottom’ and the resultant ‘moment of clarity’...
  • Trauma and the 12 Steps, with Dr. Jamie Marich
    Wednesday, August 19th, 2020

    Trauma and the 12 Steps, with Dr. Jamie Marich

    In this episode of Sex, Love, and Addiction, Dr. Rob welcomes Dr. Jamie Marich, an EMDR therapy master trainer and the author of several books, including Trauma and the...
  • Step 12 for Non-Addicts: The Gift of Giving
    Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020

    Step 12 for Non-Addicts: The Gift of Giving

    By Kristin Snowden MA, LMFT Step 12 Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice...