Friday, August 5th, 2022
Understanding the Treatment Process
Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience. It is not unusual for sex and porn addicts, when we start treatment, to expect that much of the work...
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Tag Archives: Trauma
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2022My Recovery Is the Priority for Us to Have a Relationship
In this episode of Overcoming Addiction and Betrayal, Dr. Rob answers questions on disclosure, setting up healthy boundaries, and the impact of trauma in addiction. He describes the difference...Listen -
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022Does Healing Attachment Wounds Heal Addiction, Too?
Over the past 50 years, addiction treatment specialists have come to understand the role that early-life attachment wounds (i.e., childhood trauma) can play in the formation and maintenance of...Read More -
Wednesday, January 12th, 2022What Is Trauma? Dr. Rob with Dr. Joanne Barron and Dr. Lynne Friedman-Gell
In this episode of Sex, Love, and Addiction, Dr. Rob welcomes Dr. Joanne Barron and Dr. Lynne Friedman-Gell to the show. The trio discusses Barron and Friedman-Gell’s book, Intergenerational...Listen -
Friday, December 17th, 2021Healing Trauma in Addicts: Techniques
Dr. David Fawcett In my previous post to this website, I discussed the idea that trauma treatment is necessary for long-term addiction healing, though it needs to take place...Read More -
Friday, December 10th, 2021Healing Trauma in Addicts: Timing
Dr. David Fawcett Trauma can often be identified in the histories of those who combine drugs and sexual behavior. Adverse childhood experiences such as sexual, physical, or emotional abuse,...Read More -
Friday, July 9th, 2021Essential Skills for Early Recovery: Acknowledging and Addressing Trauma
Dr. David Fawcett The experience of trauma, especially in our formative years, sets the stage for the development of many different kinds of maladaptive coping patterns, including addiction. As...Read More -
Monday, March 8th, 2021Victimization, Abuse, and Sex/Porn Addiction
A high percentage of addicts (of all types) experienced some form of early-life abuse – everything from neglect to physical abuse to sexual abuse. In fact, childhood trauma is...Read More -
Thursday, October 8th, 2020Wounded Healers: The Way of the Miracle Worker
By Tim Stein Meditation from Gifts of Recovery. The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one of two things: either love or a call for love....Read More