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Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction
by Patrick Carnes, PhD
The author helps you understand how and why you fall into love addiction and provides ways to identify and get out of it. Sort out the unhealthy, addictive elements in your relationship, while you learn new things about accepting yourself and others.
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Deceived
Pornography, cybersex, prostitutes, voyeurism, multiple affairs. No matter their "drug" of choice, men who act out sexually leave their partners reeling in fear, rage, incredible shame, and isolation. In this book, Claudia Black once again shows us there is hope.
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In Deceived, bestselling author Claudia Black offers women in relationships plagued by sexual betrayal the care and guidance to create a new path of clarity, direction, and confidence. Black uses stories of real women who have been through a wide variety of experiences to help readers develop the understanding and skills to:
* confront their partners
* heighten their personal security by setting nonnegotiable boundaries
* avoid preoccupation with their partners' problems
* practice forgiveness
* let go of the uncontrollable
* talk to their children
* make positive changes derived from esteem and integrity
Deceived teaches women how to proactively emerge from emotional isolation, shed secrets and shame, and discover their power to incite positive change in their relationships.
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Erotic Intelligence
On the journey to sexual sobriety, many sex addicts find themselves wondering, "How am I going to have a normal relationship?" or "Will it be possible to repair my marriage now that I've confessed my destructive behavior?" and "Will I ever have sex again?"
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As a sex, marriage, and family therapist, Alexandra Katehakis introduces a successful program for sufferers and their loved ones that will help them hone their erotic intelligence by making sense of the past, creating healthy habits in the present, and looking toward a more intimate relationship that nurtures honesty and closeness. With Katehakis' help, sex addicts can get in touch with their healthy sexual side -- and embrace true intimacy and acceptance in themselves and in their mates.
* Features true stories of people coming to terms with their sexuality on the other side of sex addiction, as well as couples finding a new path to sexual trust and fulfillment
* Helps to build the four cornerstones of intimacy that are essential for healthy relationships
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Ready to Heal
When relationships become a drug, love hurts. Perhaps you, like many others, are experiencing the pain of an addictive relationship-the kind of relationship thats painful to be in, yet impossible to leave. It may be your first such relationship, or you may have found yourself in a pattern that you just cant seem to break.
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In this second edition of Ready to Heal, author Kelly McDaniel walks the reader through an honest and impactful assessment of how women get into these relationships to begin with, and a walk down the road to recovery.
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Facing the Shadow
Taking a systematic, hands-on approach, Facing the Shadow explains how to break free of problematic sexual behavior and live a healthier, more fulfilling life. Dr. Carnes sets the stage for the recovery tasks and then provides practical, easy-to-follow exercises specifically designed to help understand and address the issues underlying sexual behavior.
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In Facing the Shadow, you'll learn:
* Why denial is so powerful and what can be done to break through it
* How to face the consequences of your behaviors using recovery principles
* How to respond to change and crisis due to addiction
* How to manage life without dysfunctional behavior
* How spirituality affects recovery
* What to disclose and to whom
* How sex addiction starts and what does an addict needs to know
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Sexual Anorexia
Drawing on extensive research and revealing case studies, the book develops concrete tasks and plans for restoring nurturing and sensuality, building fulfilling relationships, exploring intimacy and creating healthy sexuality. Woven throughout are stories of recovery which illustrate sexual healing principles, model new behavior and motivate change.
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The devastating mix of fear, pain and betrayal can lead to obsessive sexual aversion. Tracing the dysfunctions roots in childhood sexual trauma, neglect and abuse, Carnes explores dimensions of sexual health, targeting key issues that let recovery proceed.
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Sexual Addiction Screening Test
The Sexual Addiction Screening Test (SAST-2) developed by Dr. Patrick Carnes, author of Out of the Shadows and Facing the Shadows, is a self assessment tool that can help evaluate the likelihood that a person is suffering with a sexual addiction. This tool was made available to this site from Dr. Patrick Carnes and can [...]
Sexual Addiction Counseling
As certified NJ sex addiction counselors at Leadem Counseling & Consulting Services offer help with sex addiction because we believe that advent of cyber sexual opportunities on the internet has catapulted Sexual and Love Addictions into the role of the fastest growing threat to an individual’s physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. It matters little whether you are the addicted person or someone who cares about one. Accepting the need for Sexual Addiction Counseling may be the greatest contribution you make to your personal recovery and may increase the likelihood of having your romance survive the betrayal it has endured.
The devastating cost to the quality of human life has moved this addiction into public attention through the exposition of public figures, but the problem is not one that exclusively targets the wealthy or the famous. The costs associated with the disorder can found in struggling marriages, financial mismanagement, chaotic families, chronic alcoholism and drug abuse relapse, and criminal consequences, to name but a few.
Help with sex addiction is available and hope is within reach if the addict or his/her family is willing to expose the secrets.
The disorder, although not identified as such in the diagnostic manuals, is recognized by knowledgeable addictions treatment professionals as one of the primary obstacles to the maintenance of sustained sobriety in the recovery from Alcoholism and other forms of substance dependency. Old timers in the 12 Step movement will remember the ominous warning of the more seasoned members of their group: “Beneath every skirt is a slip.” The adage will be dismissed as a sexist comment by those fail to see its intent. Its authors were talking to men, of course, because there were very few women in the recovery rooms 30 years ago, but the wisdom should not be ignored because it speaks to one gender or because it may sound corny. Many relapses will begin with the problems associated with the instability an individual is experiencing in their sexual life. Unfortunately, the issues surrounding sexual instability are rarely discussed with sponsors, let alone brought up as topics for discussion at 12 Step meetings.
Our NJ sex addiction counselors will show you out of the maze for we have learned the way ourselves.
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