Step One Hurts!

The past few weeks I have been reflecting on Step One. “We admitted we were powerless over sexual addiction–that our lives had become unmanageable.” This one-liner seems pretty simple and pretty clear.  Admit our powerlessness? Easy enough, right? But actually feeling and facing the unmanageability of our lives is anything but simple or clear. In…

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Question: How do you find balance in recovery?

Thanks for all the questions that have come up about recovery and healing from sexual addiction. From physical touching boundaries to whether or not the 12 steps work, the questions have been so helpful and created a real conversation. Keep them coming! Today’s question comes from a brother who participates in the men’s online meetings.…

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What I Learned from Setting Boundaries

Thanks to Alicia for this beautiful post on what she has learned from setting boundaries. For more information on setting boundaries, we encourage you to read What Can I Do About Me? by Rhyll Croshaw and refer specifically to the chapter on p 57 entitled “Boundaries: The Most Loving Thing I Can Do.” When I…

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Travel Tips to Help You Stay Sexually Sober

This is a guest post from one of the guys in an SAL men’s meeting. Thanks for sharing your travel tips to help you stay sexually sober. A couple times a year, I travel for work. This means staying in a hotel room by myself. Before I started my recovery, this was an opportunity to…

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Q&A with Rhyll Croshaw: A Pioneer Perspective on Trauma

Once a month on our blog, we feature Q&A’s with Rhyll Croshaw. This content was originally found on our sister site, rhyllrecovery.com, but will now be a part of our Women’s Discussion here. Thanks to Rhyll for her insights and willingness to share her strength, hope, and experience with all of us.  Please let us…

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Question: Are the 12 Steps Really for Me?

The last question submitted to the men’s discussion group, What are healthy physical touching boundaries? had a lot of discussion. Thanks everyone who participated and shared their experience, strength and hope with the group. Today’s question is a tough one – one that many of us may have had at some point in our process,…

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What are healthy physical touch boundaries?

This week, we’d like to share a post from the Men’s Discussion Board that has received multiple comments and inspired some great discussion: For me and my marriage, I feel like after 3 and a half years of recovery, I am just barely getting to a place where I can really start at Step 1…

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Why should I go to the SA Lifeline Conference on October 14th?

We are excited to remind you of an upcoming annual event: the SA Lifeline Conference: Recovering Individuals, Healing Families. If you are undecided on whether or not you should clear your calendar and get yourself there, here are my: Top 3 Reasons to go to the SA Lifeline Conference on October 14th 1. You will…

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