Six Simple Ways To Build Bullet-Proof Commitment to Ending Your Sex or Porn Addicton
Commitment to change is the most critical element of being successful in achieving full recovery from addictive behaviours. Steely determination, willpower and/or partner ultimatums can go a long way but without personal commitment to the cause you may lack the emotional and psychological momentum to behave differently when it counts. Common to all addictions is the all-powerful […]
Bad Flow Bad, Good Flow Good – This Switch will Instantly Help Sex Addicts
FLOW experiences Flow is a word used to describe an optimal or peak experience. If you can master regular use of good flow experiences then you will have one of the most potent weapons against addictive behaviours on your side. By achieving flow experiences you will boost your feel-good neuro-chemicals so that negative feeling states are less […]
Sex Helps to Manage Anxiety
But…its not the right way to do it! What do I mean? If you-experience one or several of the many forms of anxiety such as social anxiety or general anxiety then you may have developed a coping mechanism. This might be compulsive sex or porn use which helps to relieve anxiety through the production of […]
Sex addiction – basic guide.
Sex and porn addiction can include excessively indulging in one or a combination of some of the following most often in secret: Porn – on/off-line images and film On-line chatting, sexting and dating via ‘hook-up’ apps Use of regular dating sites when already in a good relationship On-line use of sex workers such as web […]
How Sex and Porn Addiction Affects relationships
A high number of clients seek help for their compulsive porn use and sex-related addictive behaviours because their relationship with their partner is put at risk. Until their partners say that they are unhappy and are ready to leave many addicts do not even recognise their behaviours as unhealthy or potentially damaging. They stay in denial […]
Sex and porn addiction is a symptom of past trauma.
This post talks about the role of trauma as a commonly occuring causal factor of addiction in my work with clients. usually a shock to clients, this idea is also reassuring as addicts come to understand that their out of control behaviours are a product of somehting that happened to them and not something wrong […]