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Two ways to tell if someone is really serious about recovery | sexualsanity.com
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Finding intimacy and freedom from pornography and sex addiction. Presentations Mark is available to give. What people are saying about Mark’s speaking. Two ways to tell if someone is really serious about recovery. Call me cynical, but I have learned not to trust what clients say about their commitment to recovery. News flash: addicts have been known to lie. In fact, you may have heard the old joke: “How can you tell if an addict is lying? His/her lips are moving.”. Conventional wisdom is that you canR...
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Recovery | sexualsanity.com
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Finding intimacy and freedom from pornography and sex addiction. Presentations Mark is available to give. What people are saying about Mark’s speaking. Being a real man in recovery. It’s hard to be a healthy man in our culture today. What does it mean to be a “real man? 8221; Or even to be a “good man? There’s a saying in AA:. 8220;You can take the alcohol out of the alcoholic, but you’re still left with the ‘ic.'”. The devotional book “ Touchstones. It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to h...
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Pornography | sexualsanity.com
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Finding intimacy and freedom from pornography and sex addiction. Presentations Mark is available to give. What people are saying about Mark’s speaking. Some recent statistics about internet pornography. I’ve been working on a chapter for the second edition of the book “ The Christian Handbook of Abuse, Addiction, and Difficult Behaviour. The first edition came out in 2008, and the publisher wanted updated statistics for each of the chapters. Here’s some quotes from the chapter I’m sending:. In the UK, as...
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Six Keys to Overcoming Codependence and Building Healthy Relationships | sexualsanity.com
http://sexual-sanity.com/2012/06/six-keys-to-overcoming-codependence-and-restoring-health-in-relationships-after-addiction
Finding intimacy and freedom from pornography and sex addiction. Presentations Mark is available to give. What people are saying about Mark’s speaking. Six Keys to Overcoming Codependence and Building Healthy Relationships. If we are going to recover – from addiction and/or from destructive relationships – we need to live in truth. But how do we live in truth? Here is a list of principles and practices:. 1 To live in truth listen to your heart as well as others’. To overcome this, we need to remember tha...
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Facing denial in recovery from sex addiction | sexualsanity.com
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Finding intimacy and freedom from pornography and sex addiction. Presentations Mark is available to give. What people are saying about Mark’s speaking. Facing denial in recovery from sex addiction. Denial is a refusal to admit the obvious. A subtle form of minimizing often surfaces when people are first telling me their stories. As they start talking about their sexual acting out, they will include lists of things that they have. Denying the pain of others. Facing your fears: a key issue in recovery.
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Uncategorized | sexualsanity.com
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Finding intimacy and freedom from pornography and sex addiction. Presentations Mark is available to give. What people are saying about Mark’s speaking. What about pastors in recovery? Anyone living in our culture today is vulnerable to addiction — including pastors. And anyone struggling with addiction needs recovery — including pastors. But recovery is hard for pastors; harder than it needs to be. Leadership Journal recently published a great article by Amy Simpson on Pastors in Recovery. There’s ...
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How memory works — and how memories can be “healed” | sexualsanity.com
http://sexual-sanity.com/2015/08/how-memory-works-and-how-memories-can-be-healed
Finding intimacy and freedom from pornography and sex addiction. Presentations Mark is available to give. What people are saying about Mark’s speaking. How memory works — and how memories can be “healed”. Coming to terms with memories of past trauma is a core challenge for many people. 8212; and especially for people in recovery. The more I learn about how the brain works, the more hopeful I am about the prospect of healing in this critical area of life. Why is it that our memories change? Recent brain r...
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Just fix this addiction, but leave the rest of my life alone! | sexualsanity.com
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Finding intimacy and freedom from pornography and sex addiction. Presentations Mark is available to give. What people are saying about Mark’s speaking. Just fix this addiction, but leave the rest of my life alone! People who want to recover from addiction often face the same roadblock that sabotages other kinds of emotional healing — and many kinds of physical healing:. Wanting to fix one’s problem without changing one’s life. People often come into the recovery process essentially asking:. To use a medi...
