This ebook shares the wisdom from the most prolific sexual addiction experts in the world talking about sexual addiction, shame, trauma, trauma reenactment, partner betrayal, partner pain, love addiction, and other issues that contribute to compulsive sexual acting out.<br><br>Two of the chapters include Patrick Carnes who founded the Sexual Addiction Recovery Movement and Claudia Black who helps Partners of Sex Addicts regain their equilibrium from this traumatic disorder. This book simplifies the principles that make recovery possible for anyone who has been affected by sexual addiction.<br><br>If you believe that you have a sexual addiction or you love someone who suffers from this addiction, you will benefit from reading the recovery tasks that will take your life to the next level!
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Carol Juergensen Sheets Juergensen Sheets. Sexual Addiction: Wisdom from The Masters
PREFACE
Preface
CHAPTER 1
Sex Addiction: Suffering into Meaning
CHAPTER 2
Why Sex Addicts Stay Sex Addicts: Defense Mechanisms
CHAPTER 3
Sex Addicts and Mother Enmeshment Issues
CHAPTER 4
Trauma and Sex Addiction
CHAPTER 5
Techniques to Quiet the Urges and Cravings: Mindfulness
CHAPTER 6
Rebuilding the Relationship after Sex Addiction
CHAPTER 7
For Love and Money: Exploring Sexual and Financial Exploitation in Relationships
CHAPTER 8
Why Should You Seek a Partner-Sensitive Therapist?
CHAPTER 9
Meditations for Creating Healthy Sexuality and Relationships
CHAPTER 10
A Partner’s Story: A House Interrupted
CHAPTER 11
How Attachment Issues Affect Sexual Addiction
CHAPTER 12
Sexual Addiction Recovery
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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For our first edition of this ebook, I have selected a group of experts I consider “masters” who have contributed significantly to the field and made a positive difference in the lives of so many people affected by sexual addiction. I hope each chapter will share information that will help you better understand this disorder.
Every time I interview a guest, I learn so much and feel so blessed to share it with my listeners. Now we can pay it forward by helping the field get the recognition it deserves by legitimizing a very real problem that many still believe is “a lack of moral character.”
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Dr. Carnes: In fact, one of the things that I think is important, obviously as the basis for recovery, and is that the Twelve Steps have a formula that worked, and now we’re starting to make sense of why. For example, one of the ways the brain changes has to do with the brain’s need to feel safe. In other words, if there is a commonality of story, all of those things that go into a Twelve Step program from a neuroscience point of view, make lots of sense now, but nobody had that idea in the 1930s and nobody thought about applying it to things other than alcohol. But the reality is that system worked. The truth is whether you’re in recovery or not in recovery, I think that brain consciousness now is something that everybody has to start learning about. It’s not just that professionals need to become aware of the way the brain changes, but all of us need to become good consumers of information about how to take care of our brain, how to feed it better, how to stimulate it, how to keep it going.
