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...
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Tag Archives: Feelings
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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...Read More -
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...Read More -
Friday, May 3rd, 2019Overcome Overwhelmed
Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you figure out who you really are. When we feel scattered and overwhelmed, it’s usually because we’ve...Read More -
Monday, April 29th, 2019Working Step Four
Don’t look for someone to solve your problems, look for someone who won’t let you go through them alone. Because of the difficult and painful emotions that Step Four...Read More -
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019Working Step Four
Self-reflection helps you steer your thoughts, emotions, and feelings in a healthy direction. Creating our Step Four inventories can be a miserable endeavor. Basically, we’re dredging up the worst...Read More -
Friday, April 19th, 2019The Pink Cloud
Let your joy scream across the pain. Some sex addicts experience the opposite of withdrawal in early recovery. This is known as the honeymoon or the pink cloud. These...Read More -
Sunday, April 7th, 2019
Sex Addiction is Not About the Sex
There is a big difference between ongoing happiness and chasing euphoric moments as an escape. Sex addicts are hooked on the dissociative euphoria (the trance/bubble) produced by their intense...Read More -
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019The Neurobiology of Addiction
The only significant difference between substance and sex addictions is that substance addicts ingest alcohol or drugs to create an emotionally escapist neurochemical reaction, whereas sex addicts rely on...Read More