Event: Pornography Addiction: Biology, Demography, and Political Correctness

SA Lifeline Foundation

Presents a Community Educational Event with

 Guest Speaker Donald L. Hilton Jr., MD

Saturday Oct 29, 2011 7:00pm to 8:00pm

Rose Room  Thanksgiving Point Lehi, Utah

 There is no charge to attend this event .  Refreshment will be served

Church and civic leaders as well as the general public are invited to attend

Topic:  Pornography Addiction: Biology, Demography, and Political Correctness

Dr. Hilton addresses the topic of pornography addiction and provides important information to all who are seeking to know more about pornography addiction and its impact on individuals, families and society. He addresses components of the problem including information on research about how exposure to pornography negatively affects the brain. He explores the hope for recovery and the healing process.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Donald L. Hilton Jr., MD is the author of “He Restoreth My Soul”, one of the most informative and helpful books written to date on the subject of sexual/pornography addiction. This is a must read book by all who have been afflicted by pornography, which is clearly the “plague of this generation”. The book will be available at a discount at the event.

Dr. Hilton has practiced medicine for sixteen years in San Antonio, Texas, specializing in neurological surgery. Dr. Hilton graduated from Lamar University with highest honors, and from medical school at the University of Texas Medical School at Galveston with honors, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha National Medical Honor Society. He completed his neurosurgical training at the University of Tennessee at Memphis in 1994, is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons, and is a diplomat of the American College of Surgeons. He has been named to Best Doctors in America.

A pioneer in the field of minimally invasive spinal surgery, he has published books and journal articles with original contributions in this field, and lectures nationally and internationally. He teaches courses on this topic at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, and is currently a Clinical Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio.

Dr. Hilton and his wife, Jana, currently serve as LDS Family Services program coordinators in San Antonio for those who struggle with pornography and sexual addiction, as well as their spouses. He and his wife are the parents of five children and have two grandchildren.

 

For more information visit www.SALifeline.org

Event – Preparing for Healthy Intimacy

Preparing for Healthy Intimacy
in a Sexually Toxic Culture
A message for Singles

Speakers
Jill Manning & Dan Gray

Jill C. Manning, Ph.D., is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist who specializes in research and clinical work related to pornography and its impact
on marriages and families. She is a former Social Science Fellow at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., and as a result of her research was invited to testify before a Senate sub-committee about the harms of pornography on families. [Read more...]

Can pornography use become an actual brain addiction?

Donald L. Hilton, Jr. MD, FACS
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio

The human brain is programmed to incentivize behaviors that contribute to survival.  The mesolimbic dopaminergic system rewards eating and sexuality with powerful pleasure incentives.  Cocaine, opioids, alcohol, and other drugs subvert, or hijack, these pleasure systems, and cause the brain to think a drug high is necessary to survive.  Evidence is now strong that natural rewards such as food and sex affect the reward systems in the same way drugs affect them, thus the current interest in ‘natural addiction.’  Addiction, whether to cocaine, food, or sex occurs when these activities cease to contribute to a state of homeostasis, and instead cause adverse consequences.  For instance, when eating causes morbid obesity few will argue that the organism is in healthy balance.  Similarly, pornography causes harm when it impairs or destroys a person’s ability to develop emotional intimacy. [Read more...]

Introduction to ‘Out in the Light’


Video Courtesy of KSL.com

“Out in the Light” is a collaborative effort between DMC companies, (KSL-TV, KSL Newsradio, the Deseret News, BYU-TV, and Deseret Book) to educate, direct and unite women around the world who are victimized by a spouse’s pornography addiction.

Strengthening Recovery through Strengthening Marriage

Strengthening Recovery Through Strenghening Marriage

By Dr. Kevin B. Skinner & Geoff Steurer, M.S., LMFT

Recently Dr. Kevin B. Skinner & Geoff Steurer, M.S., LMFT completed a faboulous work on Pornography Addiction.  The work includes a six part CD that focuses on teaching you how to strengthen your recovery while strengthening your marriage.

Geoff is a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice in St. George, UT and the founder and director of LifeSTAR of St. George, UT, a three-phase recovery program for couples and individuals affected by pornography and sexually compulsive behaviors.

Geoff has specialized training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, an empirically based marital therapy founded by Dr. Susan Johnson.

He is a member of the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and a member of the LifeSTAR network.

Dr. Kevin Skinner is a licensed marriage and family therapist, with a master’s degree from University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a doctorate degree from Brigham Young University. He has been in practice since 1995 and has helped many people overcome their struggles and better their relationships. He specializes in marriage and relationships, as well as helping people to overcome pornography and sex addictions or understand how to help loved ones with addictions.

These cd’s focus on the specific recovery needs unique to addicts, injured partners, and the couple.  Additionally, couples will not only learn how to begin healing from the effects of pornography addiction, but will also gain valuable insights on how they can start to build long-term trust and intimacy.

The presentation is broken up into the following six parts.

Part One:  Why Marriage and Porn Don’t Mix
Part Two:  Performing Marital CPR after Discovery
Part Three:  Yours, Mine, and Ours
Part Four:  Addiction and Intimacy
Part Five:  The Key Steps to Rebuilding Trust
Part Six:  The Vision of Long-Term Recovery

We strongly recomend this work and believe that it can help.  We encourage everyone to purchase a copy.

Donald L. Hilton speaks to Youth and Parents about Pornography.

Donald L. Hilton Jr., MD author of “He Restoreth my Soul” speaks to a wide audience on the impacts of Pornography on the Brain. Dr. Hilton is a leading neurosurgeon, and uses his practical knowledge to explain why Pornography is so addicting. This video has been published by SA Lifeline Foundation.

A Road Map for Recovery Leaving Pornography Addiction and Discovering Life

by Geoff Steurer, MS, LMFT
Director, LifeSTAR of St. George, Utah

“This will be the last time”

“It wasn’t as bad as other stuff I’ve seen”

“It’s not like I look at it everyday”

These self-reassuring statements are a small sampling of comments I hear from men who struggle with viewing pornography. They wonder if they are really addicted. Many of them hide in secrecy for years trying to resolve the unwanted behaviors on their own. The secret struggle often creates more hopelessness and feelings of powerlessness over this mysterious force that seems to keep sabotaging their best efforts.

In their pain and frustration, many of them ask me the following questions:

How can I tell if I am really addicted to pornography? [Read more...]

Real Familes / Real Answers Part 1

Real Families / Real Answers Part 2

Real Families / Real Answers Part 3