Sexual Addiction:Strength/Hope/Recovery

Listen to Carol the Coach as she interviews an expert who will speaking about the topic of addressing sexual topics with children who have experienced sexual trauma and who are drawn to ography. She will also talk about children who have been "accidently" exposed to inappropriate images via media. Listen as she shares that attunement, empathy and understanding will extinguish the behavior over punishing and implemementing consequences

Carol the Coach will be interviewing Dan Morris, the creator of the 30 Tasks Recovery Map.  Recovery Tasks are essential to good treatment and having a laminated copy of the 30 Tasks of Recovery MAP is a simple check in with clients to assess where they are in recovery and where they need to focus in treatment to strengthen their program. I use it in group, individual and family sessions to get everyone's feedback and stay on track as a therapist. It is an empowering tool that keeps a client cognizant of his path to recovery. I recommend it to all CSATS and to clients as an invaluable and easy instructional tool! Listen as Dan talks about it's benefits for treatment!

Caro the Coach will be interviewing Dr. Michael Barta who is the Founding Director of the Colorado Sexual Recovery Center. Dr. Barta has developed a new treatment modality to treat Sex Addiction from a trauma based attachment model TINSA. This model specifically addresses the origin of sexual addiction which lies in the damaged autonomic nervous system due to developmental traumas. TINSA finds and treats the damage to the ANS, allowing the individual to develop healthy emotional expressions, uninhibited authenticity, and non-guarded intimacy.

Different populations need different support and forms of treatment.  Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Dr. Costine who is an expert at working within the lesbian population to treat love and sex addiction. She has done research to show how lesbians frequently "urge to merge" which creates specific relational behavoirs that lesbians suffer from. Her Book Lesbian Love Addiction:Understanding the Urge to Merge and How to Heal When Things Go Wrong is an excellent resource for the Lesbian Community or for psychotherapists working with lesbians in relational conflict.

Carol the Coach will be interviewing Alex Lerza LMFT, CSAT who has created a world class App for Sex Addicts.  The App is called R|TRIBE.  It stands for both “The Recovery Tribe” and “Our Tribe.”  It’s built for addicts, by addicts.  You can check it out at : www.rtribe.org   rTribe launched in the iOS App Store in October and Android  launched in December 2015.   R|TRIBE has the potential to become the de facto platform for and sex addiction recovery. The purpose of the app is to help and sex addicts manage their recovery in community.  Anytime.  Anywhere.  We know that acting out has always been fingertips away and now recovery can be too.   Listen as Carol the Coach finds out how this app can supplement your recovery! The RITRIBE app is a smartphone solution for a smartphone problem.  Rather than just blocking clients from acting out, this app empowers addicts to take a proactive approach with their recovery.  It’s not meant to replace therapy, support groups or 12 Step, but it will be the daily recovery tool addicts use in between face to face meetings.   Find out more about this amazing app as Carol the Coach interviews one of the developers.

Carol the Coach will be interviewing Stacy Korfist who is an expert at treating Shame which is a by-product of Sexual Addiction. Find out some of the antedotes that she finds effective in treating shame.

Sex Addiction requires that you know the tools to get healthy. Listen as Carol the Coach replays a show to help you manage this addiction

Many addicts question what love is and also want to know how to develop more intimacy in their lives. Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Danielle who has discovered  how to produce more intimacy by seeing how lov is a choice that one must make daily. If you suffer from an intimacy disorder and want to know how to improve your relationships, listen for the Keys to Making Love Work!

Carol the Coach talks about Shame and Trauma and  Sexual Addiction.

Carol the Coach interviews Suzanne Keller-Zinck who has found hypnosis to be an excellent treatment for Sexual Addiction. She has written a book on Sex Addiction and will be discussing her  approaching to reducing or eliminating SA triggers and urges through the use of hypnosis.