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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...

Why is it that a person with sex addiction can’t stop? What actually happens chemically in the brain that causes a person to continue their sexually problematic behavior despite negative...

The primary symptom of sex addiction is the inability to stop despite negative consequences. In other words, when a person who struggling with sexually compulsive behavior tries to stop they find...