Sexual Addiction:strength/hope/recovery

Shame is an automatic response to sexual addiction. Learn more about how shame and trauma are interelated in this informative show.

  Carol the Coach will be interviewing Dr. Hedelius who has over 20 years of experience at treating Sexual Addiction. He will explaining what defines Sexual Addiction and what to do if you have this compulsive disorder. He has logged over 20,000 hours of individual therapy sessions with addicts. He is the director of Paradise Creek Recovery Center, a comprehensive treatment facility for sexual addiction. Listen as he explains this complex disorder in simple terms.

Carol the Coach will be interviewing the founder of CONversation who helps families to deal with their loved ones prison sentence and re-entry into the community.

Carol the Coach will be interviewing Jeffrey Zacharias who an expert in treating people who have  sex/trauma/addiction in the LGBT community. He is the Clinical Director of New Hope Recovery Center and believes that treatment for the community requires a specialized approach.

Carol the Coach will be interviewing Dr. Ken Adams a specialist on enmeshment between Sex Addicts and their Mothers.  It is not uncommon for men to be surrogate partners and then act out sexually to reenact the trauma. Listen as Carol finds out more about this family dynamic. The second part of the show we will be learning about the couples intensives that Dr. Adams is offering and organizing at The Meadow and how this can help to rebuild relationships. There is hope out there... find out what Dr.Adams has devised to help addicts and partners find intimacy again.  

Values and courage are the requirements to find serenity and sobriety. Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Sara Schulting-Kranz who takes addicts to that place where they find their power to heal themselves and find sobriety. Listen as she discusses how the "hike" helps to empower them to heal the wounds and take their live to the next level!  

Resuming normal sex requires "a new normal" because there are so many difficult associations with the sexual act that has been compormised by sexual addiction. Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Dr Janet Hall is one of Australia’s foremost experts in the field of sex therapy and also hypnotherapy. Dr Jan will explain how she uses Hypnosis to help overcome the obstacles to seeking sex therapy and create positive changes in clients. Sex therapists face several major obstacles in delivering their craft including; Resistance to attendance (due to perceived stigma), Discussion difficulty (Due to embarrassment and the social taboo on sex), Scepticism and doubt, Resistance to in vivo practice and homework and Reluctance to admit to failure and incompetence. We will be talking to her about how to overcome the anger, sadness and betrayal that are the natural byproducts to the aftermath of sexual addiction. Hypnosis can be critically important as a tool for overcoming these obstacles. Hypnosis can greatly facilit

Triggers can be the worst thing imaginable when dealing with a sex addict. Partners of SA say that triggers are the most distressing problems for partners because they can ocur any time and put the partner right into panic and anxiety that feels uncontrollable. Tonight Carol interviews an expert who helps us understand how tirggers can assist a client in knowing what they need to feel safe again. Find out what you can do to control them and feel healthy and in control!

Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Beth Songer a mindfunesl expert who has found much success teaching meditation and mindfullness using the 12 Steps. She asserts that it can increase the recovery process. Carol will find out how mindfulness  meditation reduces stress and helps Addicts and Partners to focus on their recovery.

Listen to Carol the Coach as she interviews an expert who will speaking about the topic of addressing sexual topics with children who have experienced sexual trauma and who are drawn to ography. She will also talk about children who have been "accidently" exposed to inappropriate images via media. Listen as she shares that attunement, empathy and understanding will extinguish the behavior over punishing and implemementing consequences

Carol the Coach will be interviewing Dan Morris, the creator of the 30 Tasks Recovery Map.  Recovery Tasks are essential to good treatment and having a laminated copy of the 30 Tasks of Recovery MAP is a simple check in with clients to assess where they are in recovery and where they need to focus in treatment to strengthen their program. I use it in group, individual and family sessions to get everyone's feedback and stay on track as a therapist. It is an empowering tool that keeps a client cognizant of his path to recovery. I recommend it to all CSATS and to clients as an invaluable and easy instructional tool! Listen as Dan talks about it's benefits for treatment!  

Caro the Coach will be interviewing Dr. Michael Barta who is the Founding Director of the Colorado Sexual Recovery Center. Dr. Barta has developed a new treatment modality to treat Sex Addiction from a trauma based attachment model TINSA. This model specifically addresses the origin of sexual addiction which lies in the damaged autonomic nervous system due to developmental traumas. TINSA finds and treats the damage to the ANS, allowing the individual to develop healthy emotional expressions, uninhibited authenticity, and non-guarded intimacy.

Different populations need different support and forms of treatment.  Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Dr. Costine who is an expert at working within the lesbian population to treat love and sex addiction. She has done research to show how lesbians frequently "urge to merge" which creates specific relational behavoirs that lesbians suffer from. Her Book Lesbian Love Addiction:Understanding the Urge to Merge and How to Heal When Things Go Wrong is an excellent resource for the Lesbian Community or for psychotherapists working with lesbians in relational conflict.  

Carol the Coach will be interviewing Alex Lerza LMFT, CSAT who has created a world class App for Sex Addicts.  The App is called R|TRIBE.  It stands for both “The Recovery Tribe” and “Our Tribe.”  It’s built for addicts, by addicts.  You can check it out at : www.rtribe.org   rTribe launched in the iOS App Store in October and Android  launched in December 2015.   R|TRIBE has the potential to become the de facto platform for and sex addiction recovery. The purpose of the app is to help and sex addicts manage their recovery in community.  Anytime.  Anywhere.  We know that acting out has always been fingertips away and now recovery can be too.   Listen as Carol the Coach finds out how this app can supplement your recovery! The RITRIBE app is a smartphone solution for a smartphone problem.  Rather than just blocking clients from acting out, this app empowers addicts to take a proactive approach with their recovery.  It’s not meant to replace therapy, support groups or 12 Step, but it will be the daily recove

Carol the Coach will be interviewing Stacy Korfist who is an expert at treating Shame which is a by-product of Sexual Addiction. Find out some of the antedotes that she finds effective in treating shame.

Sex Addiction requires that you know the tools to get healthy. Listen as Carol the Coach replays a show to help you manage this addiction

Many addicts question what love is and also want to know how to develop more intimacy in their lives. Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Danielle who has discovered  how to produce more intimacy by seeing how lov is a choice that one must make daily. If you suffer from an intimacy disorder and want to know how to improve your relationships, listen for the Keys to Making Love Work!

Carol the Coach talks about Shame and Trauma and  Sexual Addiction.

Carol the Coach interviews Suzanne Keller-Zinck who has found hypnosis to be an excellent treatment for Sexual Addiction. She has written a book on Sex Addiction and will be discussing her  approaching to reducing or eliminating SA triggers and urges through the use of hypnosis.