Tag Archives: social support

  • Stocking Your Toolbox
    Monday, April 22nd, 2019

    Stocking Your Toolbox

    Addicts must shape the tools of their recovery. Thereafter, the tools will shape them. When recovering sex addicts are triggered, it is important that they have a recovery-centric toolkit...
  • How Do I Get a 12-Step Sponsor?
    Friday, April 5th, 2019

    How Do I Get a 12-Step Sponsor?

    Asking for guidance is a divine compliment. Sponsors are personal guides to healing and staying sexually sober. You choose a sponsor by listening to various people at meetings until...
  • Why We Lash Out
    Sunday, March 31st, 2019

    Why We Lash Out

    It is clear that we make our own misery. In our addiction and as recovering people, we sometimes hurt the people we love by trying “to help them” when...
  • Your Sexual Boundary Plan: The Process of Revision
    Tuesday, March 26th, 2019

    Your 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...
  • Working Step Two
    Thursday, February 28th, 2019

    Working Step Two

    Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn. Many sex and porn addicts do not want to accept outside assistance as...
  • Asking for Help
    Saturday, February 16th, 2019

    Asking for Help

    An obstinate sense of independence is most people’s greatest challenge. As recovering sex and porn addicts, we nearly always need outside assistance if we hope to change our problematic...
  • Combatting Shame
    Thursday, January 24th, 2019

    Combatting Shame

    When we share our story, shame cannot survive. Overcoming the deeply rooted shame that drives sexual addiction is a process of learning to recognize shame and its triggers, learning...