Sexual Addiction:strength/hope/recovery

Carol the Coach is interviewing Reese Crane who is a Christian Counselor and started The Silent Addiction to help people combat the effects of on our society. Listen as Reese helps the listener connect spirituality to recovery.

We want to be respectful of a person's sexual identity and there are so many terms ... it can be confusing. It is important for a person to be true to themselves and yet sometimes that requires a "period of discovery." Dr Crystal Hollenbeck is a sex therapist and sex addiction therapist and she is going to educate us about the 4 types of sexual orientations. She willl also discuss sexual anorexia, sexual disorders, the many types of types of intimacy and the different terminologies that people are using in today's world.

This NewYear could mark the change you have always wanted....You can change your life today if you follow the recovery tools necessary to work what works! Listen to this replay and write down your goals because it works if you work it!!! Happy New Year!  

If you are having trouble staying in good recovery, you may need an intensive to accelerate your recovery. Intensives can save you lots of time and money in the long run and are a great foundational tool for success. Restoration is a private practice out of Texas, and has created a  4 day intensive program that will help you identify the causes of your struuggles It is a unique opportunity to do work with CSAT candidates that folow the Carnes model and yet works with family systems, attachment and trauma based modalities.

Carol the Coach is interviewing Christian Hutcheson who did research to find out what therapy would work the best for couples who suffered sexual addiction. Solution Focused Narrative Therapy greatly improved their intimacy  and it moved them into forward thinking. Carol the Coach says that it takes couples to the stage of Post Traumatic Growth. If your coupleship seems as if it has plateaued ...listen as Dr Hutcheson tells you how to move it forward and learn how to dream outside of the current situation to create more closeness in the relationship.

Carol the Coach helps you to understand about sexual addiction.

Tonight Carol the Coach will be interview Michelle Mays who wrote an ebook on what a partner should do once he/she discovers the sexual addiction. It is a guide that will help you navigate how to get through this crisis!

Sexual addiction is one of the hardest addictions to treat and historically there has been very llittle after care for addicts who wanted to live in an environment that promoted sobriety. Listen as Ashley Smart discusses their structured program and what it has to offer sex addicts. Outer Circle Recovery is built around the philosophy that it is possible to live a life of sobriety free from addiction. Henry House is an 11 bed male only recovery redidence that can help to support problematic sexual behavior.  

It is time to stop pathologizing family members who love addicts. Rob Weiss is at the forefront of starting a new movement to understand the plight of loved ones of addicts and see them in a new light. If you have wondered if you are codependent you must listen to this show

Carol the Coach will be interviewing a leader in Every Man's Battle who will explain to you what the program has to offer and why it is so successful. It is important for you to have a successul support group and EMB will help you sustain recovery and sobriety.

Carol the Coach will be interviewing Dr. Gail Dines who is the spokesperson and advocate for protecting kids from . She and her team have single handedly changed how congress looks at this epidemic. Her mission is to protect children and she has a "Culture Reframed Parents Program"  that will teach you how to protect your children in this environment.

Impaired judgement and compulsive problematic sexual behavior can lead to boundary violations in the family. Tonight Carol the Coach will be interviewing David Essel who wants you to understand how someone could commit such a relationship violation. If incest has happened in your family you will want to hear his take on what to look for and how to proceed to keep yourself and your family safe.

This is a repeat of an important show on Conflict with Carol the Coach. Conflict is normal, natural and necessary but it is not easy...especially if you are engulfed in shame. Listen for ways to navigate it with Carol the Coach.

Toxic relationships are confusing. It often takes a recovery program to move out of them. Love Adddiction Expert, Shena Tubbs talks with Carol the Coach about the definition of Love Addiction and Toxic Relationships and the support available to move out of them.

Tonight Carol the Coach will be interviewing Beth who has experienced physical, sexual, and spiritual death as a partner and she knows that this is a common feeling that you may feel in your marriage. She says that the partner may live in a facade going to work and living life as a normal person when in reality she is deprived from the basic needs one might expect in a marriage. Beth talks about what she sees as the anecdote to healing what is attainable as long as it is filled with self care.

Money issues and financial distress is all a part of the sexual addiction cycle. Listen as renowned "sex addiction's expert" Debra Kaplan talks about her new audio book which will help to unravel the damage that sexual addiction has contributed towards in the relationship. Debra Kaplan, who wrote For Love and Money: Exploring Sexual and Financial Betrayal in Relationships  turns a provocative, literary lens on the world of sex, money and relational power. For over a decade, Ms. Kaplan has been a licensed psychotherapist treating problem related to sex addiction, money and relationships. Join us for a provocative exploration into relationships about sex, money and power.  

Discovering sexual betrayal is devestating for all involved. Relationship Betrayal Trauma Recovery is essential for a person to heal from the wounds of being betrayed by their spouse or intimate partner. However, knowing what to do when you discover the secret betrayals can be overwhelmingly confusing. Carol the Coach will be inteviewing Dr. Crystal Hollenbeck who specializes in helping individuals and couples heal the wounds of relationship betralyal. Today she is going to help couples understand what to do after the discovery occurs.

If you have anger from the past and you fear that it is effecting your relationship, you may suffer from eroticized rage. Listen as Carol the Coach helps you to work through the rage that is keeping you safe but is an unhealthy reenactment of the trauma that you suffered in your past.

Carol the Coach will be interviewing shame expert, Judy Kelly LCSW, CSAT, CDWF, who will  be explaining why sex addicts have difficulty working through their shame. Judy holds workshops that help addicts to develop the shame resiliency to experience vulnerability and learn to become authentic, transparent and honest with their feelings.

How do you recover from sexually addictive behavior and create more intimacy in your relationships? The key is to work on your vulnerability. Listen as Marie Krebs, a "Vulnerability and Intimacy Expert" shares how you can hold more space while trust is rebuilt and intimacy is increased. She believes that understanding the intersextion of vulnerability and intimacy is critical if you intend to have a solid foundation for a deep and lasting relationship with your partner over time.