Tag Archives: addiction

  • Linking Early-Life Trauma to Adult-Life Addiction
    Tuesday, March 18th, 2025

    Linking Early-Life Trauma to Adult-Life Addiction

    Linking Early-Life Trauma to Adult-Life Addiction Erin Snow The impact of early-life trauma on adult-life behavior is well-documented. Since the mid-1990s, therapists have known that neglect and abuse endured...
  • Using Sex as a Drug
    Wednesday, March 12th, 2025

    Using Sex as a Drug

    The goal is not sobriety; the goal is to love yourself so you don’t feel the need to escape through your addiction. Sex and porn addicts share certain characteristics....
  • Isn’t Treatment Enough?
    Thursday, March 6th, 2025

    Isn’t Treatment Enough?

    You can shake the monkey off your back, but the circus never quite leaves town. A lot of times recovering sex and porn addicts think: Gee, I’ve been through...
  • Do You Understand Neglect and Its Impact?
    Tuesday, February 4th, 2025

    Do You Understand Neglect and Its Impact?

    Do You Understand Neglect and Its Impact? Erin Snow Many sex, porn, and paired substance/sex addicts, when they enter treatment with us at Seeking Integrity, tell us that they...
  • Addiction, Recovery, and the Power of Connection
    Tuesday, January 14th, 2025

    Addiction, Recovery, and the Power of Connection

    Dr. David Fawcett In recent years, addiction has been described more and more often as an intimacy disorder. What this means is that addiction is not driven by a...
  • Just Another Way to Numb Out
    Saturday, January 4th, 2025

    Just Another Way to Numb Out

    Sex and porn addiction are not about feeling good, they’re about feeling less. Sex and porn addicts use sexual fantasy and behavior to ‘numb out’ and escape from stress...
  • Combatting Shame
    Friday, December 27th, 2024

    Combatting Shame

    With sex and porn addiction, shame is the master emotion. A considerable amount of research makes it clear that not talking about feelings of shame is usually more damaging...