Tag Archives: Circle Plans

  • Carry Your Sexual Sobriety Plan With You
    Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023

    Carry Your Sexual Sobriety Plan With You

    The path of recovery has many twists. It is wise to carry a map. Sexual sobriety plans are created for three primary reasons: To help us understand the nature...
  • Creating a Sexual Sobriety Plan
    Thursday, May 4th, 2023

    Creating a Sexual Sobriety Plan

    It is not wise to leave a dragon out of your calculations if you live near him. Many sex and porn addicts new to the healing process openly wonder:...
  • Your Sexual Sobriety Plan: The Process of Revision
    Wednesday, April 12th, 2023

    Your Sexual Sobriety Plan: The Process of Revision

    The times they are a-changin’. With each new form of technology (digital technology in particular), the sexual and romantic landscape changes. As recovering sex and porn addicts, we must...
  • Masturbation in Sexual Recovery
    Tuesday, February 21st, 2023

    Masturbation in Sexual Recovery

    Some (but not all) sex and porn addicts have a pathological relationship with masturbation. When constructing a sexual sobriety plan, sometimes referred to as a circle or boundary plan,...
  • Sexual Sobriety Plans Need to Be Clear
    Saturday, January 28th, 2023

    Sexual Sobriety Plans Need to Be Clear

    When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles. Sexual sobriety plans, also known as circle plans and boundary plans, are created...
  • Masturbation as a Healthy Behavior?
    Wednesday, November 30th, 2022

    Masturbation as a Healthy Behavior?

    For some sex and porn addicts, masturbation is the only sex they ever have with a person they care about. Comedienne Lily Tomlin famously said, “We have reason to...
  • What Is Edging?
    Monday, September 12th, 2022

    What Is Edging?

    Scott Brassart Lately, both in the online sex and porn addiction workgroups I facilitate and in the free webinars and drop-in discussion groups on SexandRelationshipHealing.com, I’ve heard more and...
  • Chemsex Sobriety Plans (Circle Plans)
    Friday, February 5th, 2021

    Chemsex Sobriety Plans (Circle Plans)

    Dr. David Fawcett Sobriety for sexualized drug use (chemsex) can be confusing. In fact, in the early days of recovery, many substance/sex addicts have no idea what sobriety should...