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New Reclaiming Sexual Sanity Seminar

Mar 10, 2010 9:05pm

Would you like to find a way to get the message to people in your church or community about victory over sexual struggle? “Reclaiming Sexual Sanity” is a new four-part telephone and web-based seminar that is coming in May. Right now we are looking for churches who want to work...

What does it mean to forgive?

Feb 25, 2010 1:48pm

The purpose of forgiving is to release our own minds from the pain of held resentment. We do not forgive others because that’s what nice people do. We forgive because it sets our minds free for other things - like living happily in the present. This is not to say that...

Will “Sex Addiction” Become an Official Diagnosis?

Feb 22, 2010 7:51am

At the moment sex addiction is not recognised by any official diagnosis in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), considered the definitive word on psychological disorders. However, the term “hypersexual disorder” is being proposed for the fifth edition of DSM, due out in 2012. The controversial...

Emotional Awareness is Key to Relapse Prevention

Feb 11, 2010 10:13am

One of the key steps to developing a safe environment that supports our recovery is to develop emotional awareness. As part of our recovery, we seek to grow in our ability to identify and tend to our emotions. If we don’t, we’re setting ourselves up for relapse. The Habit of Emotional...

Free Teleseminar: Personal Environments - the secret to success in recovery

Feb 5, 2010 6:48am

“Personal Environments: The secret to success in recovery” Thursday February 18 7:00pm, central time Many people who are trying to overcome sexual struggles unconsciously sabotage their recovery. They don’t understand the incredible power of personal environments to shape behavior. This free teleseminar will focus on the latest insights about life change from the...

Guided conversations to build intimacy between addicts and spouses

Feb 4, 2010 8:00am

Couples in recovery need to stay connected emotionally, and addicts’ spouses need to get consistent updates about sobriety. People struggling with sexual addiction/dependence often have a hard time with this — they resist the accountability of regular sobriety updates, and they struggle to know how to build emotional intimacy in...

Why accountability partners don’t work for pornography addiction

Feb 1, 2010 11:09am

Most of the men I work with have a long history of failed attempts at overcoming sexual temptation. One of the most common strategies people in churches use is having an accountability partner. I have nothing against accountability partners … they just don’t work. Listen to this recording - a short...

Releasing stored anger as part of recovery

Jan 24, 2010 10:27am

To live in recovery, we must be willing to take responsibility for the anger that we carry within us. We are not bad people because we feel angry. No one wants to think of themselves as an angry person, and we are no exception. But when we refuse to acknowledge...

Free teleseminar: Understanding our Sexual Blueprint

Jan 6, 2010 12:09pm

Date: January 21 (Thursday) Time: 7:00pm, central time now available for purchase on the Recovery Remixed site When we were young, we took in messages about ourselves and the world that powerfully shape who we are and how we live today. Because these messages were taken in at a young age, we weren’t...

Guarding against emotional affairs

Jan 5, 2010 8:59am

An emotional affair happens when a person invests too much emotional energy with someone outside their marriage, and in turn receives too much emotional support and companionship from that relationship. How much is “too much?” There aren’t black and white rules for when a relationship moves from innocent friendship to...