Recent Posts Tagged With 'recovery'

• Do I really have to start over????

  Posted on Thursday August 9th, 2007 at 10:12 in recovery, lust, 12 steps, resentment, sexaholic

  I hate being an addict! I really don't think you understand that I HATE being an addict. You see, the problem is that I think that I have this under control and have 8 months of sobriety under my belt (my drug of choice is fantasy with being lusted a...

• Step Six

  Posted on Friday July 20th, 2007 at 11:28 in addiction, recovery, lust, 12 steps, step six

  Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.As an addict I can say that I felt I was at this place for a long time before I started working the steps. Some addicts don't want to get better and only want to learn to control...

• Step Five

  Posted on Tuesday July 17th, 2007 at 10:35 in recovery, lust, confession, 12 steps, sexaholic, sexaholism, step five

  Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.Forgive me Father for I am a worm. This is a dangerous and crucial step for recovery. By the time the addict gets to here they should/need to have lots of suppor...

• Step Three

  Posted on Wednesday July 4th, 2007 at 09:25 in recovery, Step Three, confession, 12 steps, higher power, sexaholic

  Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.At times it seems that the journey to recovery requires what seems like superhuman abilities to me, the addict. Step three is a place to learn that we don't h...

• Journal 20070701

  Posted on Sunday July 1st, 2007 at 22:00 in addiction, alcoholism, recovery, lust, intimacy, 12 steps, step one, sa, sexaholic

  Tonight, I went to my weekly meeting. Tonight one of our members gave his first step. I know that this was hard for him to do. It took up most of the meeting and his recounting encompassed probably over 30 hand-written pages. This step was a reco...

• Journal 20070628

  Posted on Thursday June 28th, 2007 at 12:09 in recovery, sobriety, purpose, lust, songs, intimacy, 12 steps, sexaholic, sexaholism

  One of my favorite songs from adolescence is For Crying out Loud as performed by MeatLoaf. It still to this day strikes a chord in my heart. However, as I grow and mature I have come to realize that it describes the addict in me and my true self. It...

• Lust Versus Intimacy

  Posted on Tuesday June 26th, 2007 at 11:09 in addiction, recovery, pornography, lust, fellowship, intimacy, 12 steps, step one, sa, sexaholic, sexaholism

  One of the biggest things addiction to lust, more commonly know as Sex Addicts or Sexaholics, does to a person is it makes them incapable of sharing with anyone else who they really are. It could be due to embarrassment, shame, guilt or a variety of...

• Jounral 20070618 "The F-word"

  Posted on Monday June 18th, 2007 at 21:25 in recovery, lust, abstinence, sexaholic, sexaholism

  Today, my wife and I had our couple’s counseling appointment. I really didn’t want to go, not in the least. Well, not because I am through with my marriage or anything but because I just want everything to be back to normal, I want the magical pi...