Sexual Addiction:Strength/Hope/Recovery

Women who live with love addiction and find worth in their sexuality and sex based patterns are a unique breed. They have learned to cope in a sex driven world. Many have been through childhood trauma. Lacy A. Bentley, author of Overcoming Love Addiction:Your Recovery Roadmap, will be speaking with Carol the Coach about how to break this addictive pattern and find self worth in the process.

Repeat of the show How to Rebuild Your Sexual Relationship

We all know that sex is a difficult subject to discuss with our kids but now that kids are being exposed to sex and pron at an avereage age of 11, it is imperative that you be proactive and guide your child through that exposure. Carol the Coach will be interviewing Dina Alexander Founder of EducateEmpowerKids.org which is a powerful resource for helping parents to talk about ography.

Erica Garza is the author of the memoir, Getting Off a chronicle of her journey through sex and addiction. Her fixation on and orgasms, strings of failed relationsips. and serial hook-ups with strangers led her to feeling shame and isolation. Listen as she shares how she got sober and turned her life around.

It can be tough to be in Sexual Recovery and know what you want in a relationship. Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Relationship Guru David Essel who has just written a book called Focus which assists you with finding love and compatibility no matter where you have been or what has happened in your past. .

What if things are good for awhile, but slowly or suddenly those SA behaviors come back with a vengeance? Gaelyn Rae Emerson has put together a "Relapse Preparedness Workshop" that helps Partners develop an emergency response protocol to assess  what couples need to do when dealing with the common problem of relapse. Recovering sex addicts make better choices when they are able to see what the consequences of their actions will be and partners willl feel more secure with knowing how to handle these tough situations. Listen as Gaelyn takes us through the steps of "relapse preparedness."

Carol Sheets will be interviewing renowned author, Mari Lee, who has written the book Gifts in the Wound: Stories of Hope and Resilency where she shares real stories of partners and couples who moved through the pain of sex addiction and partner trauma and found their way back to strength through recovery.

Dating can be hard enough when you are just starting to connect with people of interest but it can feel terrifying when you are working on yourself and don't want to want to re-enact old patterns from your past. Recovery and Relationship Expert Jackie Pack will be sharing with Carol the Coach the strategies behind healthy dating and will be discussing a 3 day intensive that Healing Paths have developed to make that process easier.

Need to build your sexual relationship? Listen as Carol the Coach tells you how to improve the intimacy in your relationship.

Experential Therapy can be very beneficial for people suffering from sex and love addiction. It allows you to take past events, situations and conversations and bring them into the present moment to deal with them in the here and now. Allan J. Katz has written a book Experiential Group Interventions with DBT: A 30 Day Program for Treating Addictions and Trauma which he has found to be extemely helpful in healing the wounds of addiction. Listen as he and his group share their experience.