Why It’s a Great Idea to Process Betrayal Trauma While Your Spouse Is in Rehab
If your partner recently started a rehab program, now is that time to focus on yourself. Is it selfish to shift your focus to your own healing and recovery? The answer is no. On the contrary, now is a great time to focus on processing your betrayal trauma so you can heal and get your […]
Revealing the Connection Between Depression and Addiction
You've been living with your addiction for a while now. However, every attempt at rehab or recovery continues to fall short. But why? Could a mental health issue like anxiety or depression be driving your addiction? Mental health issues are common. Disorders such as depression and anxiety can lead to thoughts and emotions that leave […]
The Not So Startling Connection Between Porn Addiction and Infidelity
It all started with curiosity. You never intended your innocent discovery of pornography to lead to infidelity. What's worse, the heartache your spouse feels due to your actions is almost unbearable. So how did you get here, and how can you get out? People who begin to view porn early in life often have one […]
How Can Innocent Curiosity Lead to a Full Blown Porn Addiction?
Your parents may have worked tirelessly to set up filters and block adult content from making its way onto your screen. Likewise, they may have taught you all the reasons why to avoid pornography. However, years later, you find yourself living with a porn addiction and wondering how this all happened. As easy access to […]
Addiction Is Damaging My Relationship, How Might Treatment Help?
So, you've made the decision to seek treatment for your addiction. As such, you're ready to commit to doing whatever it takes to reach and maintain recovery. After a thoughtful process, you feel a long-term treatment center would be best. However, you can't help but wonder how thirty to forty-five days away might impact your […]
5 Great Ways To Strengthen A Relationship After Discovering Porn Addiction
The devastation that comes with discovering a porn addiction is often unexplainable. Likewise, learning your spouse has a porn addiction can lead to so many questions. Why? When? Where? How? Like many other things, the status of your relationship may no longer be clear. Is it possible to move forward together after such a major […]
3 Ideas to Help Ring in the New Year Without Your Porn Addiction
For many of us, seeing 2020 come to an end is going to be a joyous occasion. With 2021 on the horizon, you may be thinking about goals you want to set and achieve over the next year. For example, you are ready to say goodbye to your porn addiction. Yet, you wonder, with all […]
Music Therapy At Paradise Creek Recovery Center
Music Therapy at Paradise Creek Recovery Center with Heather Overly, SCMT, CBMT Over the past two decades, the exponential growth in research on substance use disorders (e.g. alcoholism, drug addiction) and process addictions (e.g. sex addiction, porn addiction, eating disorders, offending behaviors, etc.), as well as trauma, has encouraged clinicians to consider additional therapeutic interventions […]
Want Free Therapy For Addiction? Try Self-Compassion
What is self-compassion? Multiple therapies can work together to overcome addiction. One of those therapies, which is free and can be used at any time, is self-compassion. While self-compassion by itself will not end an addiction, it is a useful tool for living a happier, healthier life and for changing the brain patterns associated with […]
How Does Mindfulness Affect Addiction Treatment?
Mindfulness As An Addiction Treatment Mindfulness is an addiction therapy that is proving to be successful at preventing relapse, and that can be integrated into other treatment programs. It is something that can learned and performed anywhere. One of the reasons mindfulness may contribute to sobriety is that it provides a healthy way to deal with […]