What Porn Addiction Looks Like and When to Get Help
Pornography is more accessible today than ever before. With a click of a button, you can watch whatever you’re into in the privacy of your own home. For many people, pornography is a part of their sex ...
Men, Therapy, and the Power of Positive Change
Why You Might Be Hesitant to Seek Therapy Let’s be real—talking about emotions isn’t exactly what society expects from men. Maybe you grew up hearing things like "boys don’t cry." I mean many of us k ...
Managing Grief and Loss on Your Addiction Recovery Journey
When we think of grief, we tend to associate it with certain losses like someone we love dying or the end of a relationship. Grief is incredibly common in addiction recovery, but it's not something yo ...
Reframing Workaholism: Understanding How Overworking Contributes to Addictions and Trauma
One strategy to dealing with an addictive behavior is to trade out negative, problematic behaviors for more positive ones. Exercise, work, and diet are all behaviors that can replace negative behavior ...
How to Manage Anxiety to Better Your Addiction Recovery
What is Anxiety and Why Do We Have It? Wouldn't it be great if we could just feel contentment, happiness, love, and peace? Unfortunately, it's just one of our 4 basic emotions. This means that it's u ...
The Importance of Healing Old Wounds: How to Address Unresolved Emotional Scars
When you get a scratch yourself it can leave a scar. This is common knowledge, but can emotional wounds leave scars as well? Of course. Whether it's your upbringing, past abuse and traumas, or problem ...
When Porn is a Compulsive Numbing Tool
When Porn is a Compulsive Numbing Tool If you read about compulsive porn use, there's a lot of information that takes the discussion about problematic porn use to the extremes: it's either always a p ...
The Treatment of Loneliness
The Treatment of Loneliness It's so important for us to find connections in our lives. Friendships, romances, and sexual relationships can all help with our sense of feeling connected. However, even ...
Recovering after the Holidays
Recovering after the Holidays Holidays can leave you feeling exhausted, overwhelmed and drained. You get a lot of exposure to people who you probably have complicated relationships with. If you're in ...
Overfunctioning and Realigning Yourself
Overfunctioning and Realigning Yourself Overfunctioning is a term that relates to the intensity and energy that we put into aspects of our lives, including work, our homes, relationships, and friends ...