I'm well aware that there are many paths to addiction recovery, and many modalities within those paths, but I think unless your path takes you through the origin of your addiction, there's always going to be a piece of you that is more susceptible to relapse than someone who spends the time learning about how…
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Explaining the Feeling of Addiction
A challenge in talking to the loved ones of porn addicts is that they can’t understand the addict mind. They don’t share it. I’ve been trying to figure out a way to both quickly explain how deeply depraved and deceitful – yet with little remorse – an addict (really of any substance or behavior) can…
The Longer I’m in Recovery, The More I Avoid Conflict from Differing Opinions
Over the years, my wife has pointed out to me that I tend to speak of the Boston Red Sox in terms of “we” as in “We just may have made the greatest mistake in trading away Mookie Betts since we let Babe Ruth go to the Yankees.” My wife is the first to point…
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Six Years After Starting Recovery, I Make One of My Biggest Advances Toward Normalcy
I did something I’m actually going to brag about, that I never would have thought I would have done in a million years, but it felt like such a step forward, I’ve been meaning to come here and write about it to show people just how far you move away from mistakes you made and…