Sunday, April 13th, 2025
The Disease of Addiction
We don’t recover from addiction by quitting. We recover by creating a new life where it is easier to not engage in the addiction. Once upon a time, addiction...
Tag Archives: Emotional Escape
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Thursday, February 13th, 2025Early Recovery and the Onslaught of Feelings
Sobriety requires courage—courage to face the world without the emotional shield of addiction. As sex and porn addicts, we engage in our addiction not to have a good time... -
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... -
Thursday, December 26th, 2024Sex and Porn Addiction Are Not About Sex. They’re About Escape.
You can’t avoid reality forever. Sex and porn addicts share certain characteristics. One of these common traits is that starting in adolescence (and sometimes earlier) we learned to use... -
Tuesday, May 12th, 2020The Importance of Becoming the New Guy, Part Two of Four
By Eddie Capparucci, LPC, CSAS, CPCS Click HERE for the entire four-part series. So why is it that learning to manage your sexual or porn addiction is not enough...