Tag Archives: Sexual Boundary Plans

  • Masturbation in Sexual Recovery
    Saturday, February 2nd, 2019

    Masturbation 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...
  • My Sobriety is Not Your Sobriety
    Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019

    My 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,...
  • Sexual Integrity
    Friday, January 4th, 2019

    Sexual Integrity

    With integrity, you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide. A primary goal for most recovering sex and porn addicts is developing what renowned sex addiction...
  • Hooked on Porn?
    Friday, December 28th, 2018

    Hooked on Porn?

    The amount of porn on the Internet is unmeasurable. In their book, A Billion Wicked Thoughts, researchers Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam write: In 1991, the year the World...
  • Boundaries: How to Create Them
    Monday, December 3rd, 2018

    Boundaries: How to Create Them

    By Kristin Snowden, MA, LMFT In my previous post to this site (click here), I discussed the need for boundaries when developing healthy intimacy (or repairing broken intimacy). I...
  • Boundaries: Why We Need Them
    Wednesday, November 28th, 2018

    Boundaries: Why We Need Them

    By Kristin Snowden, MA, LMFT In the field of intimacy disorders, we find ourselves talking a lot about intimacy. What, exactly, is intimacy? Many use the following soundbite to explain...
  • Sexual Sobriety May Change Over Time
    Monday, November 26th, 2018

    Sexual Sobriety May Change Over Time

    Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. Sexual sobriety plans are not set in stone. In fact, we often spend a month or two (or a...
  • Setting Clear and Concise Sexual Boundaries
    Tuesday, November 13th, 2018

    Setting Clear and Concise Sexual Boundaries

    If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. In sexual recovery, we create clear and concise sexual sobriety plans to define what sexual...
  • None of Us is Like the Rest of Us
    Thursday, October 25th, 2018

    None of Us is Like the Rest of Us

    Becoming whole means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake, and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger. Every sex addict is different. Each...