Sexual Addiction:strength/hope/recovery

No matter what trauma has occured in your life...it is 100% your responsibility to find ways to shift your thinking using your energy. Tonight Dr. Sue Morter will be talking about her new book The Energy Code: The Seven Step System to Awaken Your Spirit, Heal Your Body, and Live Your Best Life. She will be showing us how to remove subconscious blocks to live our best lives! Whether you are an addict in good recovery or a partner who is working through the betrayal trauma, Dr. Sue will inspire you to use your own personal resources to make it happen.

Carol will be talking about how Elijah helps you to do the next right thing in recovery and can help to transform you into the person that you want to be. This for recovering addicts and their spouses who want to strengthen their sense of identity and integrity,

Carol the Coach is interviewing Andrew Susskind, a therapist who knows that sex addiction is about brokeness and not compulsivity. His new book that is coming out It's Not About the Sex: Moving from Isolation to Intimacy after Sexual Addiction will help people see that there is a broken heartedness that needs to be repaired. He maintains that sexual addiction is not about sex...Hear why he believes it is about lack of connection!

Empathy is the anedote to relational repair and tonight Carol the Coach will be interviewing Liana Allison who is an expert in empathy and emotional maturity. She iis going to talk about how to manage negative emotions and use them to develop empathy. She will be sharting her method and how her skills bring together connection due to empathy.

Tonight, Carol the Coach will be interviewing Janice Caudill and Dan Drake who have written a book on the Full Disclosure and why it is so important to have it done with specialists who will create the space to do it in a helpful and safe environment. This book is for partners and addicts to know what to expect from a disclosure and to create a place for couples to heal. Tonight they will share what a typical disclosure session looks like and how to navigate through it. This is the first book written to help you identify the truth and why it is important for the Addict and the Partner to share the truth to start the recovery process!

Both addicts and partners can have childhood wounding that interferes in their current relationship. Carol the Coach is interviewing David Essel, who is an abuse expert who wants to help clients work through their trauma. He is going to be sharing symptoms and manifestations of PTSD which frequently accompanies the abuse. He also will share some healthy resources to get you past your past.

Tonight, Carol the Coach interviews Brian and Jennifer, a recovering couple who have a mission to support couples who have been ravaged by Sexual Addiction. They have done their own personal work but know that rebuilding their relationship involves some special skills that are a result of being in a coupleship that has been fractured. They will be sharing their "tips" for rebuilding their relationship!

There is no doubt that Sexual Addiction affects everyone in the family and it can be particularly difficult to navigate how to involve the children in this family problem. Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Kristin Cary who has helped families for over a decade tell us what can be helpful in maaging the problem while being sensitive to the children.

Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Doug Weiss who runs a program that treats addicts, partners and couples with intensives, recovery coaching and counseling.

Carol the Coach interviews a therapist who wants to know the basics about sexual addiction. Listen as he asks all the questions that a novice would want to know like...What are the common mistakes that therapists make when they know nothing about sexual addiction.

IFS is a higly effective and compassionate way of understanding all human behavior and it can help the addict understand his acting out. Carol the Coach is interviewing Jenna Riemersma who is an IFS expert. She will be sharing how the SA and PA can both benefit from the techniques and insights of IFS.

Many clients want to get to the root of why and how did they develop sexual addiction. Tonight Carol the Coach will be interviewing Shawn Kispert who is an expert at helping sex addicts determine what were the negative things that they thought and said to themselves that led them to find behaviors that would reinforce their beliefs. Shawn will explain how EMDR can change the maladaptive thoughts that feed the addiction.

Want to try an alternative treatment that can help you manage the urges and cravings of sex addiction? Tonight, Carol the Coach talks to Colleen Klein, LCSW and CSAT who practices EFT, the Emotional Freedom Teechnique that focuses on tapping on the meridians of the body with her clients to reduce or eliminate psychological and physical symptoms that can trigger SA.

There is all types of help out there to support Sex Addiction recovery. Tonight, Carol the Coach will be interviewing Dave E. who will be describing his "rock bottom" and what finally led him into solid recovery. He, like Patrick Carnes believes, that you have to go through suffering, true transformation and find the "real self." Listen as Dave shares his story aout real life and real life-giving connections to God, his authentic self and to reality.

Carol the Coach is interviewing the prolific Dr. Rob Weiss, author of 6 books including Prodependence: Moving Beyond Codependency. Rob is going to be talking about the effects of the #MeToo movement and how a healthy dialogue is the start of reframing what needs to happen to respect each other in healthy ways.

Carol the Coach will be interviewing Mari Lee, the internationally and nationally recognized co-author of "Facing Heartbreak: Steps to Recovery for Partners of Sex Addicts"  and "Healing Betrayal: First Healing Steps for Partners of Sex and Addicts." Mari believes that  intentional self care is essential for partners of sex addicts. Listen as they discuss the 12 tenets to follow while dealing with the aftermath of sexual addiction.

If you are looking for an intensive followed by an on-line program to assist the coupleship in healing, than this is the show for you! Carol the Coach will be interviewing Marnie Breecker and Duane Osterlind who have co-created the Helping Couples Heal Program that involves a 3 day intensive followed by an intensive online support resource to assist couples in their healing. This ongoing psychoeducational support is instrumental in helping couples heal! 

Dr. Rob Weiss has started a movement that eliminates the word Codependency and it is called Prodependence. He is the author of Prodependence: Moving Beyond Codependency. We know longer want to pathologize Partners by saying that they are Co-addicts or Co-Dependents. Partners had no idea that their spouse was an addict and therefore they should not be seen as defective or sick. It is time to honor a partner who wants to work through the addiction that has ravaged the family. Kim Buck CSAT, MAPC, LPC, is developing a workbook that will change the way we look at partners and the addict that they love. Listen as Carol the Coach, along with Kim Buck helps to change this trajectory and honor the partner!  

One of the greatest tools you have in recovery is using your thinking to reframe the struggles of your life. Listen as Carol the Coach interview author, Johnnie Calloway who wrpte Dragons to Butterflies is a specialist in using the mind to activate potential. He is a certified mind coach and will teach you how to forgive the unforgivable, find peace in the chaos of life and discover self-love.

Do you sometimes wonder if you are addicted to love? Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Lacy Alajna Bentley who is an expert on Love Addiction. In her new released book Addicted to Love she describes the recovery tools necessary to combat this addiction and live the life you deserve.