Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
How Denial Sets In
Addicts would rather deny a hard truth than face it. Denial usually builds slowly over time through a series of small, seemingly innocuous lies. Typically, each lie has its...
Tag Archives: Self-Awareness
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Monday, April 15th, 2019Learn from Your Mistakes
Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. No person does life perfectly. Nor does anyone do recovery perfectly. All of us make mistakes, and we make... -
Thursday, April 11th, 2019Working Step Four
Until we face our shadows, they will haunt us. The goal of Step Four is for us to take a hard, unrelenting look at our problems and our role... -
Saturday, April 6th, 2019Working Step Four
Honest self-reflection opens the mind to reprogramming, change, success, and freedom. Often, as recovering sex and porn addicts, we dread the thought of Step Four, of taking a searching... -
Wednesday, March 20th, 2019Are You Love Addicted?
Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it. Love addiction, also known as relationship addiction and romance addiction, is diagnosed using... -
Saturday, March 16th, 2019Recognizing Sexual Addiction
We cannot turn back time and make a new start, but we can start from now and create a new ending. The core signs and symptoms of sexual addiction... -
Wednesday, March 13th, 2019Overcoming the Shame of Porn Addiction
For porn addicts, shame is the master emotion. Porn addicts are often reluctant to seek help. Sometimes this is because they don’t view their solo sexual behaviors as an... -
Tuesday, March 5th, 2019Early Sobriety Can Be Uncomfortable
Every flower must grow through dirt. Most sex addicts experience extreme emotional discomfort in early sobriety. And why would we not? After all, addictive sexuality has been our primary... -
Sunday, March 3rd, 2019What is Denial?
Sex addicts lie about their problematic behaviors – even to themselves. Active sex and porn addicts routinely ignore warning signs of problematic behavior – ruined relationships, depression and anxiety,...