Friday, December 13th, 2024
Create Space for Your Feelings
The best way out is through. We live in a culture that does not always approve of big feelings, especially the expression of unpleasant or negative emotions. Our society...
Tag Archives: Feelings
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Friday, February 18th, 2022Why Is Intimate Emotional Connection Such a Struggle for Addicts?
Scott Brassart As a boy, my family taught me certain dysfunctional lessons. One of these lessons was that I was not allowed to express (or even have) thoughts and... -
Tuesday, April 28th, 2020Coronavirus: Keeping a Healthy Mind and Body
By Gavin Sharpe As a psychotherapist, perhaps it is unsurprising that I am deeply concerned about the impact the coronavirus crisis is having on our mental health. I am troubled... -
Friday, September 20th, 2019Bringing Body Awareness Into Healing, with Regina McCarthy
In this episode of “Sex, Love, and Addiction LGBT” Dr. David Fawcett welcomes Regina McCarthy. Regina is a clinical social worker, holistic psychotherapist, and author of Courageous Gilbert the Groundhog.... -
Tuesday, August 13th, 2019Early Sobriety Can Be Uncomfortable
Every flower must grow through dirt. Most sex and porn addicts experience extreme emotional discomfort in early sobriety. And why would we not? After all, addictive sexuality has been... -
Sunday, July 28th, 2019The Etiology (Formation) of Addiction
We are not addicted to a substance or behavior; we’re addicted to escaping reality. When our early-life caregivers are absent, impaired, addicted, neglectful, anxious, inconsistent, intrusive, overbearing, or similarly... -
Sunday, May 19th, 2019
Acknowledging Feelings
Doing one very simple thing – validating your feelings – will change your life in powerful ways. Before choosing how to deal with intense feelings, a basic first step... -
Tuesday, May 14th, 2019The Disease of Addiction
We don’t recover from addiction by quitting. We recover by creating a new life where it is easier to engage in the addiction. Once upon a time, addiction was... -
Monday, May 6th, 2019Developing Empathy for Your Partner
Beautiful souls do not just happen. As sex addicts, we tend to hurt the people we love. The single biggest step we can take toward repairing our broken relationships...