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Recovery Coaching:
A Guide to Coaching People
in Recovery from Addictions
Second Edition
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Category Archives: Sex Addiction
What is a recovery coach?
In 2013, I published Recovery Coaching – A Guide to Coaching People in Recovery from Addictions, since then the duties and responsibilities of recovery coaches, peer recovery support specialists and professional recovery coaches have expanded significantly. In this article, I … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism, behavioral health, Drug Addiction, eating disorder, Family Dynamics, Gambling Addiction, Internet Addiction Disorder, love addiction, love avoidant, mental health, opioid epidemic, Pornography, pornography addiction, Recovery Coaching, Sex Addiction, Uncategorized
Tagged Association of Recovery Community Organizations, CCAR, Conneticut Community for Addiction Recovery, medicated supported recovery, medication assisted treatment, peer recovery coach, peer support specialists, peer to peer support specialist, recovery coach, recovery community organizations, sober companion
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10 Signs You’re a Sex Addict
By Brian Whitney Reposted from an article published by www.thefix.com in 02/10/15 Is sex starting to become a real problem for you? Take a look at our list for some warning signs you might want to look out for. So, … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, love addiction, Sex Addiction
Tagged brian whitney, sex, Sex Addiction
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Lions, Tigers, Bears and the Yellow Brick Road to Recovery
This is a guest post by Steve Devlin, a recovery coach from Philadelphia PA, and a long time friend. I chose to post this over the Holiday weekend, because it brings me such joy, and brings back wonderful memories of watching … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism, Anger, behavioral health, body dismorphia, Drug Addiction, eating disorder, Family Dynamics, Hunger, Internet Addiction Disorder, love addiction, love avoidant, mental health, opioid epidemic, Pornography, pornography addiction, Positive Thinking, Recovery Coaching, Sex Addiction
Tagged recovery, recovery coach, Steve Devlin, Wizard of Oz
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Getting through the tough times
As a recovery coach, I often see my clients need help getting through the tough times, without using, picking up or acting out. Recently, I personally encountered some rough patches in my life, so, I went to my library of … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism, Anger, behavioral health, body dismorphia, Drug Addiction, eating disorder, Family Dynamics, Gambling Addiction, Hunger, Internet Addiction Disorder, love addiction, love avoidant, mental health, opioid epidemic, Pornography, pornography addiction, Positive Thinking, Recovery Coaching, Sex Addiction
Tagged Addiction, breath work, Buddhism, Buddhist Nun, Cape Breton Nova Scotia, chodron foundation, Gampo Abbey, mkrecoverycoaching.com, Pema Chodron, when things fall apart
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The Top Ten Warning Signs You Are Talking to an Online Catfisher-Part 4
How can you protect yourself from a Catfisher or an online predator? Why do they do what they do? Catfishers want something from you. These are people that are not motivated by love, but are driven by money, perverse sexual … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Anger, behavioral health, Drug Addiction, love addiction, love avoidant, mental health, pornography addiction, Sex Addiction, Uncategorized
Tagged catfisher, conartist, FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, internet predator, National Sexial Assault Hotline, National Sexual Violence Resource Center, scammer, stalking Resource Center
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The Top Ten Warning Signs You Are Talking to a Catfisher—Part 3
Are you talking to someone on line? Do you trust them? Could they be a catfisher, a scammer, a scallawag or a con? Last week I outlined some typical characteristics and warning signs of interacting with an online scammer. I … Continue reading
Posted in behavioral health, Internet Addiction Disorder, love addiction, Pornography, pornography addiction, Sex Addiction
Tagged Catching the Catfishers: Disarm the Online Pretenders, catfisher, conman, eharmony.com, match.com, online predator, Predators and Perpetrators Who Are Out to Ruin Your Life, scammer, Tyler Cohen Wood
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The Top Ten Warning Signs You Are Talking to an Online Catfisher
Are you talking to someone online? Do you trust them? Could they be a catfisher, a scammer, a scalawag or a con? How Monica Draper, a 55-year-old, Ontario-based graphic designer lost $100,000 is not unheard of. How could she fall … Continue reading
Posted in love addiction, pornography addiction, Sex Addiction, Uncategorized
Tagged catfisher, eharmony.com, InternetPredatorStat.homestead.com, match.com, online predator, scammer
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20 Question Assessment – Is this a healthy relationship?
As a recovery coach I guide a lot of people in the “realm” of healthy relationships. Many ask — is this a healthy relationship? Some clients have not been in a relationship for several years, and are attempting to dip their … Continue reading
Posted in love addiction, love avoidant, mental health, pornography addiction, Positive Thinking, Recovery Coaching, Sex Addiction
Tagged healthy relationships, intimacy, marriage
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Recovery Coaches to the Rescue
It is 5:30 am and a band of FBI and local sheriff authorities pull up to a New Jersey suburban house in a development not far from Philadelphia. Adorning Kevlar vests, and windbreakers with the yellow letters FBI on their backs, … Continue reading
Posted in behavioral health, Family Dynamics, Internet Addiction Disorder, love addiction, mental health, Recovery Coaching, Sex Addiction
Tagged pornography addiction, recovery coach, Sex Addiction, sex and love addicts anoinymous, sex offenders
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K9-Free and Effective Porn Blocker for MacBook and iPhones
As a recovery coach, I have been asked by many a porn addict, “what is an effective block to use on their digital equipment?” I say K9. The added bonus – K9 is free. But it is difficult to install. … Continue reading
Posted in Pornography, Recovery Coaching, Sex Addiction, Uncategorized
Tagged K9, porn addiction, porn blocker, pornography, Sex Addiction, Todd Love PsyD
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Why are Love Addicts and Love Avoidants or Love Ambivalents attracted to each other?
The last person a love addict should be attracted to is a love avoidant or love ambivalent. But all love addicts are attracted to love avoidants or love ambivalents. Why? In order to answer this we have to go back … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, behavioral health, Family Dynamics, love addiction, love avoidant, mental health, Sex Addiction
Tagged love addict, love addiction, love ambivilant, love avoidant, sex and love addicts anonymous
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Others in the Dance of Love….
A few more members are joining us in the Dance of Love Like Goldilocks, women (mostly) are all looking for the “three bears,” all in one man. Not too hot (average looking), not too cold (balanced ego) and is just … Continue reading
Posted in love avoidant, Sex Addiction, Uncategorized
Tagged love addict, love avoidant, relationship addict, the love ambivilant, the player, the torchbearer
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The Dance of the Love Addict and the Love Avoidant
A love addict knows they do not want an emotionally unavailable partner, and the love avoidant knows they want an emotionally distant mate. Yet, the love addict and love avoidant still end up being attracted to each other. The love … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, love addiction, mental health, Recovery Coaching, Sex Addiction, Uncategorized
Tagged love addict, love addiction, love addicts anonymous, love avoidant, SASH, sex and love addicts anonymous, Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health
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The Dance of Love – The Love Avoidant
What is a love avoidant? The love avoidant will build relational walls during intimate contact in order to prevent feeling overwhelmed by the other person. The love avoidant associates love with duty or work. This coping mechanism is usually the result … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, love addiction, Sex Addiction
Tagged intimacy, love addict, love addiction, love avoidant, sex and love addicts anonymous
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The Dance of Love—What is a Love Addict?
What are the characteristics of a love addict? Scratch the surface of a sex addict and you will find a love addict. Scratch the surface of a love addict and you will find a love avoidant. This is a perplexing situation for … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, love addiction, Sex Addiction
Tagged love addiction, love addicts anonymous, love avoidant, pia mellody, Sex Addiction, sex and love addicts anonymous
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Child Pornography — Part Two
The Child Pornography Industry The pornography industry nets approximately $13 billion dollars of revenue in the United States, alone. Illegal child pornography revenue is around $3 billion annually and is one of the fastest growing businesses online (Top Ten Reviews, … Continue reading
Posted in behavioral health, Family Dynamics, Pornography, Sex Addiction, Uncategorized
Tagged Center for Problem-Oriented Policing, child pornography, CyberTipLine, Enough is Enough, International Watch Foundation 2014 Annual Report:, Internet Watch Foundation, J Clark Baird, Jerry. Ropelato, My Kid's Browser, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, National Crimes against Children Research Center, National Criminal Intelligence Service, National Juvenile Online Victimization Study, This is your brain on porn, Top Ten Reviews
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Child Pornography – Part One
Possession of child pornography is a felony under federal law, as well as every state. Because I am a recovery coach, I know some offenders, and I had some questions. I wanted to know more about these viewers of child pornography. … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Pornography, Sex Addiction, Uncategorized
Tagged child pornography, CyberTipLine, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, pornography, recovery coach
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Ten ways of Improving Your Chances of Keeping that New Year’s Resolution
Make a list and think it through It’s that time and everyone is thinking of New Year’s Resolutions. You’re itching to get rid of that bad habit right now, but consider this: think it through. I know you have heard … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcoholism, Anger, behavioral health, Drug Addiction, Family Dynamics, Gambling Addiction, Hunger, Internet Addiction Disorder, love addiction, mental health, Recovery Coaching, Sex Addiction
Tagged AA, Charles Duhigg, Harm Reduction, Mary Ellen Coepland, NA, Relapse Prevention Plan, The Power of Habit, The WRAP Plan
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