Sexual Addiction:strength/hope/recovery

Carol the Coach interviews Jim who has garnered a variety of modalities and philosophies to understand and treat his sexual addiction. He will be speaking about the modalities he used and the deal breaker that he believes is crucial to good sexual addiction recovery. Jim has an extensive history and wants to share it with you!

Repeat of a previous show that discusses impulse control issues associated with sex addiction.

Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Chris Countryman LCSW about how emotions interplay with sex addiction. Chris has found that sex addicts often find themselves alternately blocking emotions or feeling overwhelmed by them. Researchers have found that difficulty in managing emotions plays a big part in the development of sex addiction, and learning how to work with and integrate emotions is a big part of recovery. Listen as Chris and Carol the Coach address the basics of emotions theory, and how applying emotional tools can help in recovery.

Carol the Coach is interviewing addictions expert Greg Woodhill who is host of the podcast A Brave New Man Podcast. Greg is going to be talking about when does sexually explicit images become problematic and what emotions it might be masking. Listen as Greg talks about how affects the brain.

Carol the Coach interviews Jeanne Vattuone about the video course that she and colleague Tim Stein created to explain sexual addiction and partner betrayal. The course is an introduction to sex addiction and partner trauma and discusses the behavioral and neurological perspectives of both. It helps you to know what resources are available. This 15 segment course is a game changer for helping people understand sex addiction and relational trauma.

Carol the Coach interviews Juan Carlos who wrote a book on transformation after recovery. Shining with Bravery is a book where he helps others work through their life's purpose to get sober and find themselves in the process!

This show will equip addicts and partners to face their indivdual and shared losses together, creating deeper, more meaningful trust that can be rebuilt in an accelerated way. Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Jake Porter of Daring Ventures as he explains how harnessing the power of grief and trauma can be used to promote positive personal growth.

Sexual Betrayal impacts every area of a couple's life and sex addiction specialist Wendy Conquest wants to help couples get "unstuck" and begin to develop intimacy again. Listen as the author of Letters To A Sex Addict, shares strategies to help couples on their sexuality journey.  

This is a repeat of a show Carol did with Intimacy Anorexia Expert Doug Weiss. He is a facinating guest with a great message for recovery!

When a relationship is impacted by sex addiction, navigating sexual arousal, desire, and sexual activity can be confusing and challending. Dr. Crystal Hollenbeck is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist as well as a CSAT and an APSATS therrapist. Tonight, she will be helping both addicts and partners learn more about this issue so that they can heal and grow sexually on their journey through treatment for sex addiction recovery and healing from sexual betrayal. Listen as this expert helps you to know how to proceed in your relationship.

Carol the Coach will be interviewing Troy Love who believes that 100% of his clients that struggle with SA are suffering from attachment wounds, loss, rejection, neglect, abandonment, betrayal or abuse.He has a specialized model that not only explores the dynamics of SA but assists addicts in a pathway to healing.

Carol the Coach will be interviewing expert Candice Christiansen who will help us understand how people on the Autism Spectrum may suffer with intimacy disorders and self-stimulation issues leading to problematic sexual behavior.

Carol the Coach is interviewing Kellyb McDaniel who specializes in treating women who experience addictive relational patterns. She is the first clinician to name Mother Hunger as an attachment injury and urges clinicians to explore the repercussions of bonding or non-bonding with an emotionally compromised mother. Find out how women with  these issues experience a variety of cyclical, self-sabatoging behaviors.

If you suffer from Insecure-Avoidant Style of Attachment, it is likely that you have replaced your need for spontaneous play with strictly eroticized/sexualized behaviors that keep you isolated and searching for ongoing acting out. Tonight Carol the Coach will be interviewing Michael Crocker who uses Stuart Brown's book Play to reinforce the need for spontaneity for fun, play and attachment. Michael will describe "negative affect scripts" and how they contribute to Out-of-Control Sexual Behavior.

It is important to do good recovery work individually and in relationship with your spouse. Until you have good sobriety, you can not get involved in intensive counseling work but you can develop the rituals to improve the structure to build trust like using reflective listening, mirroring, empathy, and and willingness to be there for your spouse. Listen as Carol the Coach shares with you what you need to know to begin to build trust!  

Carol the Coach will be interviewing Dr. Crystal Hollenbeck, Sex Therapist and Certified Sex Addiction  Therapist who knows how difficult it can be to work through the collateral damage done to oner's sexuallity after Partner Betrayal.She will be talking about some of the ways trauma is evident related to the partner's sexuality at the befinning of recovery. She will also address the common fears that occur after discovery.

Carol the Coach will be interviewing Sara Schulting Kranz who will be discussing the value of nature therapy on your mind, heart and soul. As a partner of a sex addict, she will talk about how being in nature can have positive impact on a traumatized brain! She takes women out to the Grand Canyon and helps them find the power within them.

The connection between  empathy and different forms of intimacy creates  an opportunity for the couple to increase the 8 stages of intimacy  slowly while building trust and safety with in the relationsip which has been shattered by betrayal. Listen as Carol the Coach interviews co-author Allan J. Katz who will be talking about empathy.

Carol the Coach interviews Cara W. Tripodi who is the Executive Director and CEO of START which specializes in problematic sexual behaviors and partner betrayal. When Partners experience the crisis, many decisions and trauma related concerns are present as they explore the fallout from the crisis often in ther first year or two. However the long-term needs are often where deeper inner change occurs, regardless of whether their relationship lasts post discovery/disclosure. Themes related to grief and loss; exploration of faily of origin themes: as well as intimacy and trauma resolution are often addressed at this time.

Carol is going to be talking about her newly released workbook for sex addicts to develop empathy and begin the necessary steps to  help her heal. Addicts don't know how to help their partners navigate through the process of her pain, so Help.Her.Heal has the formula that will help him to know what to do as his spouse goes through the excrutiating pain of sexual and partner betrayal.