Sexual Addiction:strength/hope/recovery

Compulsive "" viewing can ruin an addict"s life. It is not "just " it is an addiction that ruins family life, relationships, and all aspects of one's life. Tonight, Carol the Coach will be interviewing a Christian Counselor - Reese Crane who helps addicts break free from addiction. He has learned how to use his life struggle and create purpose out of his life and for his community. Listen to his facinating story of how he turned his life around and the struggles that helped to set him free!

Sex addiction causes intimacy issues and tonight, Carol the Coach will be interviewing Dr. Carol Clark who has written the book Addict America: The Lost Connection. Dr. Carol Clark wants listeners to look at how family of origin issues may be impacting their current relationship. She will be discussing the Paradox of Power, and ways to lower the defenses in order to learn new ways of relating to each other so that both the addict and the partner can find the love they deserve.

Kids are bombarded with sexual messages that are both intriguing and confusing. Parents and schools are at a loss for how to handle compulsive acting out. Listen as  Carol the Coach will be interviewing Marnie Ferree founding Director of Bethesda, who is building a treatment program for kids who are acting out sexually and lack the support to alter their behavior. If you have a child who es exhibiting out of control behavior, this program will give you some hope that help is near.

Love addiction is common for people who have childhood wounds that occured in their family. Carol the Coach will be interviewing Kelly McDaniel who is an expert in the field of love addiction. Kellly  sees a pre-existing factor called "mother hunger" which feeds into the desire to find love and the compulsion to ease the pain. Listen as Kelly talks about her book, Ready to Heal which helps people to determine how to get healthy from love addiction.

Gary Wilson is the expert on how erotic material effects the brain and Carol the Coach is interviewing him about how erotic visual materials  and compulsive masterbation effects the brain. This is a classic show that will help you understand neuroscience and the brain.

For many addicts, eroticized rage shows up as a contributing factor in sexual addiction. Carol the Coach interviews experts Kate Balestrieri and Lauren Dummit who believe that sex addicts need to understand how anger and rage feed into their addiction and what they can do to work through it. Kate and Lauren will discuss the components behind these emotions and how it plays out in your relationships.

Carol the Coach interviews Josh Nichols who believes that it is important for a recovering sex addict and partner to have intensity in their recovery program. He relies on the 5 pillars of recovery to create a true recovery program.

Carol the Coach will be talking with Garry Eldridge of Lighthouse Counseling Center who believes that surrendering to sex addiction  means that in recovery you change your life. He says that  the 12 Steps boils down to Trusting a Higher Power, Cleaning up Your own House and Serving Others. He states the recovery journey is not about defeating the addiction and fighting for sobriety, instead it is about using the steps to create a new life that is liberating and motivating! Listen as he shares his unique perspective.

Carol the Coach will be interviewing Tom Gagliano who believes that this is indicative of sexual addiction but it also is an act of power and control. He feels that Harvey is a sexual predator. He believes that men and women are no longer afraid to speak up  and say "No More" to sexual exploitation. Listen as Carol and Tom talk about how the world is changing one voice at a time.

Carol the Coach will be interviewing Gavin Sharpe tonight who is a British Psychotherapist who is a sex addiction specialist in Monaco and the South of France. He will be talking about the Denial Process and how it feeds active sex addiction. Patrick Carnes states that Denial  is the first Recovery Task to break. Find out what Gavin would recommend to break trough the cognitive distortions that contribute towards sexual addiction.

Women who live with love addiction and find worth in their sexuality and sex based patterns are a unique breed. They have learned to cope in a sex driven world. Many have been through childhood trauma. Lacy A. Bentley, author of Overcoming Love Addiction:Your Recovery Roadmap, will be speaking with Carol the Coach about how to break this addictive pattern and find self worth in the process.

Repeat of the show How to Rebuild Your Sexual Relationship

We all know that sex is a difficult subject to discuss with our kids but now that kids are being exposed to sex and pron at an avereage age of 11, it is imperative that you be proactive and guide your child through that exposure. Carol the Coach will be interviewing Dina Alexander Founder of EducateEmpowerKids.org which is a powerful resource for helping parents to talk about ography.

Erica Garza is the author of the memoir, Getting Off a chronicle of her journey through sex and addiction. Her fixation on and orgasms, strings of failed relationsips. and serial hook-ups with strangers led her to feeling shame and isolation. Listen as she shares how she got sober and turned her life around.

It can be tough to be in Sexual Recovery and know what you want in a relationship. Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Relationship Guru David Essel who has just written a book called Focus which assists you with finding love and compatibility no matter where you have been or what has happened in your past. .

What if things are good for awhile, but slowly or suddenly those SA behaviors come back with a vengeance? Gaelyn Rae Emerson has put together a "Relapse Preparedness Workshop" that helps Partners develop an emergency response protocol to assess  what couples need to do when dealing with the common problem of relapse. Recovering sex addicts make better choices when they are able to see what the consequences of their actions will be and partners willl feel more secure with knowing how to handle these tough situations. Listen as Gaelyn takes us through the steps of "relapse preparedness."

Carol Sheets will be interviewing renowned author, Mari Lee, who has written the book Gifts in the Wound: Stories of Hope and Resilency where she shares real stories of partners and couples who moved through the pain of sex addiction and partner trauma and found their way back to strength through recovery.

Dating can be hard enough when you are just starting to connect with people of interest but it can feel terrifying when you are working on yourself and don't want to want to re-enact old patterns from your past. Recovery and Relationship Expert Jackie Pack will be sharing with Carol the Coach the strategies behind healthy dating and will be discussing a 3 day intensive that Healing Paths have developed to make that process easier.

Need to build your sexual relationship? Listen as Carol the Coach tells you how to improve the intimacy in your relationship.

Experential Therapy can be very beneficial for people suffering from sex and love addiction. It allows you to take past events, situations and conversations and bring them into the present moment to deal with them in the here and now. Allan J. Katz has written a book Experiential Group Interventions with DBT: A 30 Day Program for Treating Addictions and Trauma which he has found to be extemely helpful in healing the wounds of addiction. Listen as he and his group share their experience.