Spring is my favorite season. Everywhere I look, there is new life springing up around me. Buds on the trees, tulip leaves pushing through dirt, geese soaring northward over my head in perfectly v-shaped droves. As my recovery friend put it in the weekly email to our recovery group: “Everything that is dormant or dead…
Happy Valentine’s Day! As this holiday can be triggering and downright traumatic for women dealing with betrayal, we are grateful for Rhyll Croshaw’s perspective on our blog post today. Rhyll is the author of What Can I Do About Me? and the co-founder of SA Lifeline Foundation. Thanks, Rhyll, for sharing your strength, hope, and…
About S.A. Lifeline Foundation S. A. Lifeline Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit organization founded in 2008 by Steven & Rhyll Croshaw. It was their decades of experience with addiction and trauma that prompted the formation of an organization that could provide hope, education, and resources related to pornography and sexual addiction recoveryand healing from the…
Thank you to Alicia for sharing her strength, hope, and experience in this post about her journey to healing. Each time I pass the anniversary of my rock bottom, I can’t believe another year has passed. It’s been eight years now -eight years of learning a new way of living and even a new vocabulary:…
You may be aware that SA Lifeline Foundation recently published the updated Understanding Pornography & Betrayal Trauma Manual. This publication is one of SA Lifeline’s proudest accomplishments. The manual includes clear guidance from top experts in the field, and straight-forward explanations that bring clarity to complicated issues. It is also unique in that it offers…
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.…
Were you able to attend the SA Lifeline October Conference? We hope you were able to be there in person or even on Zoom, and that the event was a positive boost in your recovery. We’d like to share some member perspectives on the Conference and ask you to share any “Ahas!” you found at…
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,…
Yesterday at Church, I heard a comment that was honestly quite triggering. But not in the “triggering” way you might think. By “triggering” I mean that it caused me to feel negative emotions: frustration, anger, fear, and even a lack of hope. One of the things that was said in the talk was that, “as…
Have you found us on Instagram yet? A few weeks ago, we took to our Instagram community to collect questions for our co-founder, Rhyll Croshaw, to respond to. Thanks to Rhyll for being willing to share her strength, hope, and experience with all of us. Here is the first Q&A from our Insta community! Q: What…