Porn addiction recovery doesn’t end with sexual sobriety; it begins there. What follows is the real work: building a life that supports healing, prevents relapse, and fosters emotional clarity....
Questioning your own habits can be confusing. You might tell yourself it’s just stress relief, a phase, or something you’ll deal with later. But if it’s starting to affect your...
Understanding how porn addiction changes the brain can help explain why quitting is so hard. For many men, compulsive use begins as a way to relax or escape, but over time, it can take a serious toll...
What’s this new thing they call “betrayal trauma”? As I learned about this new approach to helping couples heal from sexual betrayal I cringed at the word “betrayal”. It became...
There are as many theories in coaching in general as there are mental health and/or addiction disorders. It is difficult to navigate what approach will help for what type of issue. If you Google...
Question: How to quit porn for good? Answer: Fix the life problem not the porn problem? I get this question all the time and my answer is always the same. Compulsively looking at pornography...
Wait what? Sex is optional. Isn’t it a human “need” or necessity like food or air? I hear this all the time from clients. The truth is this, sex is not a need it’s a primal instinct,...
Sometimes people who suffer from porn addiction believe that healing happens solely in behavioral changes. In other words they think that it’s just a matter of stopping the acting out...
What Is Porn Addiction? Porn addiction is a 3 fold issue. 1) An inability to stop once a person starts watching pornography. 2) An inability to stop the behavior long term because of an...
This may be one of the most annoying debates I see in the addiction field. Why on earth would anyone would think that sex could NOT be an addiction. And yet there is technically no diagnosis...