Rekindling Your Relationship While in Sex and Porn Addiction Recovery Whether you’re in recovery for a sex or porn addiction, or you’re in a relationship with someone who is, it can be difficult to rekindle your relationship. When a relationship has dealt with these issues, there are often a series
When Do We Just Get to Trusting Again? Whether a couple has dealt with a single affair, or they have worked through multiple episodes of cheating, there can be a lasting barrier. Each member in the relationship can feel like they are making individual progress in coping and preventing it
How Betrayal Cuts Into Connection, and How to Move Past It When there is betrayal in any relationship, the body and mind can head into a systematic freeze. This is especially true of romantic relationships and can happen in a number of ways. Numbing and disassociation are of the most
Emotional Struggles Later in Recovery After the dust settles in recovery, and things began to become more stable, it seems like it would be natural to be in a place where life is flowing easier. However, this time can often be a complicated time for those in recovery. This can
How can Substance Abuse Lead to Relationship Problems? Are drugs coming between you and your loved one? How did this happen and what does it mean? Maybe you knew he or she was an occasional recreational user when you began the relationship, but it didn’t bother you. Maybe you did
Addiction Recovery: 5 Ways to Set Yourself Up for Success All the willpower in the world will do little for you when it comes to addiction recovery. Addiction is a disease that is causing you to crave something, whether it is a substance or an activity. Could you “will away”
Most of us are familiar with the one-liners that are part of most 12 Step recovery programs. You know the one’s I’m talking about, “One Day at A Time,” “Take it Easy,” “Let Go, and Let God.” Frankly I find these affirmations at once endearing and infuriating: Endearing because for
Shame is something that we often try to avoid. Walking through a place of such vulnerability is understandably undesirable, because human beings are naturally quite pain aversive. Our aversion to pain doesn’t exclude emotional pain. However, can we grow without a certain level of discomfort? Can we really begin to
For those who are in recovery, managing intimate relationships can be very difficult. A loss of trust, codependency, and poor communication can take their toll in relationship recovery. If you are in recovery for an addiction, regaining your partner’s trust can be extremely challenging. There is a difficult balance between
Knowing whether or not you are addicted to a particular behavior is not always easy to identify. Part of the problem with this lies in the vagueness of how addiction can be defined. This is one of the reasons why so many clients come into treatment being defensive. There can