Sunday, June 30th, 2019
Carry Your Boundary/Circle Plan With You
The path of recovery has many twists. It is wise to carry a map. Sexual boundary/circle plans are created for three primary reasons: (1) to help us understand the...
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Tag Archives: Sexual Boundary Plans
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Sunday, June 9th, 2019Sexual Boundary Plans: The Need for Honesty
For sex addicts, it takes incredible strength and courage to admit the truth. Creating an effective sexual boundary plan requires brutal honesty on the part of not just the...Read More -
Thursday, May 2nd, 2019Your Sexual Boundary Plan: Necessary Adjustments
Sexual boundary plans, once formulated, are not set in stone. Most recovering sex addicts spend a few months or a few years with a specific set of guidelines for...Read More -
Friday, April 12th, 2019Creating a Sexual Sobriety Plan
When things go wrong, don’t go with them. Many sex addicts new to the healing process openly wonder: “If sexual sobriety doesn’t require lasting sexual abstinence, what does it...Read More -
Tuesday, March 26th, 2019Your Sexual Boundary Plan: The Process of Revision
Recovering sex addicts must be willing to change with the times. With each new form of technology (especially digital technology), the sexual and romantic landscape changes. As recovering sex...Read More -
Sunday, March 17th, 2019Understanding Sexual Sobriety
In recovery, the road narrows, but the horizon widens. In sexual recovery, the definition of and boundaries for sexual sobriety are determined based on each addict’s unique history and...Read More -
Saturday, February 9th, 2019Sexual Boundary Plans Need to Be Clear
When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles. Sexual boundary plans are created to define sexual sobriety and to provide recovering...Read More -
Saturday, February 2nd, 2019Masturbation in Sexual Recovery
Some (but not all) sex and porn addicts have a pathological relationship with masturbation. When constructing a sexual boundary plan, one potentially problematic gray area is masturbation. For addicts...Read More -
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019My Sobriety is Not Your Sobriety
Sex addicts don’t have to be married or monogamous to be sexually sober. Long-term monogamy may be the goal for some (maybe even most) recovering sex and porn addicts,...Read More