Sexual Addiction:strength/hope/recovery

Carol the Coach talks with sexpert Dr. Piper Grant who helps couples heal their fractured relationships and then assists them in reengaging them towards a healthy sexual relationship. In tonight's show , she will be talking about what couples need to do or know to move their relationship towards intimacy.

In early recovery, you need the tools to combat the behaviors and cravings that will interfere with that deeper and long-lasting freedom of recovery. Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Alex Lerza co-founder of the The Recovery Tribe.  Alex is going to be announcing the new platform that rTribe 2.0 will be offering to addicts that will provide affordable, anonymous help from experts in the field of sex addiction. You are not alone in this journey and Carol the Coach will be showing you how to increase your support!

Intimacy is more than just sex. It is trust, communication, closeness and bonding. Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Alex A. Avila who wrote "40 Forms of Intimacy: Integrating Connection Into Your Couple Relationship to find out what you can do to rebuild your relationship after it has been fractured.

Sometimes  Borderline Personality looks like Partner Trauma. I have many partners who come into the office and they wonder if they have BPD because a therapist who is not a partner specialist does not understand trauma. Carol the Coach interviews Shena Tubbs who will help our listeners identify the clinical criterea of BPD and together we will examine why it is so often misdiagnosed.

Being a male partner of a sex addict can be extremely tough for a variety of reasons. Listen as this man shares his story and the work he has done to get through the ordeal of having been married to a female sex addict. Carol will address the differences in perspectives.

Jürgen Schmechel's mission is to inspire thousands of men to create loving, respectful relationships. Carol the Coach will be finding out his do's and don'ts for men whom have not had the experience of being in a good childhood and consequently don't know how to build or rebuild a relationship that is loving, nurturing and safe.

Carol the Coach will be interviewing  Faith Niece LMHC, CSAT who works directly with the men who come to Next Chapter Treatment Center for help with their sexual compulsive behaviors as well as other addictions.They customize a treatment plan that is unique to each resident with a team of therapists, clinicians and other professionals that work on addictive behaviors and the trauma behind them. Listen as Faith shares the journey of men who decide to do the hard work of recovery at Next Chapter

This is a replay of a show we did on Abandonment. Connection is the annecdote to Sexual Addiction and Abdonment is a precurser to medicating feelings and filling the void. Listen as Carol the Coach shares more about abdonment.

Recovery is can be obtaind but what happens when you can't seem to find the closeness and emotional intimacy that you so desire in your relationship. What happens if your relationship suffers from Intimacy Anorexia??? Listen as Carol shows you the tools that make it easy to navigate through issues surrounding inimacy and develop the closeness you both want in your relationship.

This is a repeat of a show that details how love addiction surfaces in attempts to heal the childhood wounds and attachment issues from the past.  

Carol the Coach will be interviewing co-authors Dan Drake and Wendy Conquest who have collaborated a sequel to Wendy's book ---- Letters from a Sex Addict. This book explores what it is like to be a sex addict and how readers and clinicians alike can use this book to walk ing the journey of a sex addict in letter from to his partner from the pre-recovery through the recovery process. They hope that this book willl provide relational healing and understanding of this epidemic in today's world

Partner sensitive treatment not only enhances the coupleship but it also increases the self esteem of the Sex Addict because it allows him to rebuild the broken relationship . Tim Stein MFT, discusses why it is imparative for the addict to find an effective balance between focusing on the addict's sobriety and recovery work while also being aware of the partners experience and helping the relationship to grow out of the crisis that sexual addiction causes.

Carol the Coach interviews Troy Love MSW, LCSW, who wrote the Best-Selling Workbook "Finding Peace: Healing from Loss, Neglect, Abandonment, Betrayal and Abuse." This book helps clients to heal from depression, anxiety and trauma while finding greater joy and peace. Listen as you find how about the shadows of shame and how they hijack your happiness.

Sex Addiction is very misunderstood and Rebecca Rosenblat is going to discus what sex addiction is and isn't. She will address commmon myths, and distinguish between sex addiction and affairs.This expert has authored 7 books and she will be discussing Overcoming Betrayal The Breakthrough Therapeutic Approach A Couples Guide to Healing from Both Persectives. Listen as Carol the Coach and Rebecca give you some hope, strength and recovery

Carol the Coach will interview David Essel who wrote the book Positive Thinking Will Never change You Life But This Book Will! The Myth of Positive Thinking the Reality of Success. He is not a believer of Positve Thinking and he believes that genetics do not play a part in addiction. He believes that addiction is our inabillity to deal with our own emotions, failures, successes, insecurities, resentment, and boredom. He also believes that affirmations may actually hold people back in life.

Tonight, Carol will be interviewing Michelle Mays who is the founder of a new website www.PartnerHope.com. This website will guide partners through the 6 stages of recovery and give strength, hope and recovery to partners who have been traumatized by their spouses addiction. Michelle is the founder and Clinical Director of the Center for Relational Recovery and helps individuals and couples navigate through the trauma cause by sex addiction.  

Sex Addiction effects the self and everyone who loves the sex addict. Listen as Carol the Coach delves into why someone would have this compulsion and how to manage it!

You have heard me tell you to detach with love and let go of the feelings that accompany Trauma. Tonight, I will be interviewing Leah Guy who has a different spn on emotional health. She will be talking about the difference between emotional health and mental health and why letting go may be the worst advice  for moving on and healing. In her book, The Fearless Path, Leah talks about a radical awakening to emotional healing and inner peace.

This is a repeat show that describes what love addiction is and how it manifests itself. Happy 4th of July to all our American Listeners!  

Carol the Coach interviews therapist/owner Dorit Reichental who is opening Kintsugi Center for Healing which is a retreat center in Montecito, a suburb of California. Kintsugi Center for Healing is a place for people impacted by sexual addiction, betrayal trauma, to come to for emotional, psychological, and spiritual healing. If you are looking for a special place to do your work as a couple ... you may have just found the spot!