When Life Falls Apart During the Holidays
When life falls apart during the holidays, we can learn to cope by practicing surrender.
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Contrasting Healthy Sexuality & Pornographic Portrayals of Sexuality
Many people erroneously think of pornography as a substitute or preparation for healthy sexual relations. Healthy sexuality and intimacy, however, stand in sharp contrast to pornographic portrayals of sexuality.
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Self-Identifying as a Sexual Addict. Shaming or Empowering?
By Steven Croshaw, PresidentSA Lifeline Foundation: Recovering Individuals, Healing Families I tried to stop using pornography and sex with self hundreds of times, only to return to these unwanted behaviors again and again. For decades, feeling toxic shame and incredible fear I chose to hide my sexual acting-out behavior. I really wanted to stop and…
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I Like Red
It wasn’t until God reminded me that I like red, that I realized that I had lost myself. I was stunned to realize that my favorite color was important to God because it surely wasn’t important to me at that point.
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Letter to a Faith Leader
What Spiritual Leaders Need to Know A letter from the spouse of an addict… What I Wish Father Leaders Knew About Pornography & Sexual Addiction As a wife working her recovery, when I got to my Step 9 Amends, I knew that some way or somehow, my faith leader would be on the list. I have…
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Beauty From Ashes- Healing Takes Time
The Beauty of Regrowth Beauty from ashes can happen. I’ve always liked seeing nature after a wildfire. I love the contrast of the burnt trees with the new bright green growth. It just speaks to me. I love seeing how nature just keeps going and growing. When I see one of these scenes, I…
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Bonus Q&A Audio- 2022 S.A. Lifeline Conference
The 2022 S.A. Lifeline Conference was a great success with many participants asking some insightful questions throughout the day. We set aside a full hour at the end for Q& A, but quickly found that was not sufficient time to answer the dozens of questions that came in. Here is a bonus audio recording recently…
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Are We There Yet? Patience in the Process of Betrayal Trauma Recovery
This week our post comes from Cindy, who shares how her perspective and expectations have shifted as she has worked the 12 steps. Thank you Cindy, for sharing your growth and experience with us in such a beautiful way. I am a task oriented, “finish line” kind of person. I like to make checklists, and…
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Betrayal Trauma Survival Kit – Part 2
Light I mean this both physically and symbolically. My husband likes to sleep in a dark room, and would rarely open the curtains during the day to let light in. After finding out all he had kept from me, one of the things I started doing was to open the curtains and let in the…
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