Today, I checked out of curiousity whether my job would help with sexual addiction treatment as they do for alcoholism, depression, etc. However, the summary plan description (the SPD) states that services or treatments that are “experimental, investigational, mainly for research or not in keeping with national standards of practice as determined by” our EAP vendor, [...]

Feelings are important however fleeting they may be, however uncontrollable they may seem, and however minor they are. Sometimes they are all over the place and sometimes they are “no where” and sometimes they just are. So sometimes us addicts love to answer the question, “How are you doing?” with “Fine.” We do this because [...]

Despite my attempts at getting a sponsor, I am still sponsorless in my new city. Having gotten the phone number of a guy in my city who has had 13 years of sobriety, I visited his group, talked with him, and began a temporary sponsorship with him. Over the course of two weeks, we got [...]

Today as I was listening to the radio, I heard this song called, “Whatever It Takes” by Lifehouse. It made me think of my own situation and many of my friends’ situations. Lifehouse – Whatever It Takes Lifehouse’s “Whatever It Takes” Lyrics: A strangled smile fell from your faceIt kills me that I hurt you [...]

What is a slip? While I define a slip a little more broadly (or, a little more specific including some recovery behaviors) than this, a slip at minimum is any viewing of pornography, any sexual act outside the confines of marriage (between a man and a woman), and masturbation (see tomorrow’s post). At minimum, it [...]

For the last month or so, I have learned more about recovery than I ever have. One of the things that I learned was that I was not processing slips properly. So after a slip, I would immediately call a recovery friend. Once on the phone, we would process my emotions and sometimes my thinking. [...]

So more and more I am realizing that there are two distinct, vital partsof an addict’s recovery or restored life. Up to this point, I believe that in my own recovery I haveintermixed these two essential and equally important parts of recovery.Both of these parts play two separate and distinct roles in one’s recovery, and [...]

So I have been in recovery since 2010, and if I wanted, I probably could push this date back even further to about 2008 when I left seminary to come home for help or even 2004 when I first began to reach out to various counselors and church leaders. And if I really wanted to [...]

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