Is it important to include the spouse in therapy for pornography addiction? Addiction EducationGeneral ArticlesKyle Reid LMFTMarriage and FamilyPornography AddictionSex AddictionVideo

Is it important to include the spouse in therapy for pornography addiction?

Kyle M. Reid, LMFT Call today to schedule and appointment with Kyle at 801.272.3420

Connections AdminMarch 29, 2017

Introduction to the Connections Program of Recovery Addiction EducationDaniel Caldwell CMHCGeneral ArticlesPornography AddictionSex AddictionVideo

Introduction to the Connections Program of Recovery

Connections AdminMarch 28, 2017

Saving your marriage. Is there hope of restoring a relationship after a betrayal? Addiction EducationKyle Reid LMFTMarriage and FamilyPornography AddictionSex AddictionVideo

Saving your marriage. Is there hope of restoring a relationship after a betrayal?

Kyle M. Reid, LMFT Call today to schedule and appointment with Kyle at 801.272.3420

Connections AdminMarch 23, 2017

What is sexual addiction? Addiction EducationDaniel Caldwell CMHCGeneral ArticlesPornography AddictionSex AddictionVideo

What is sexual addiction?

Connections AdminMarch 13, 2017

Is there hope of restoring a relationship after a betrayal? General ArticlesHome TopicsKyle Reid LMFTMarriage and FamilyPornography AddictionSex AddictionTrauma and AbuseVideo

Is there hope of restoring a relationship after a betrayal?

Kyle M. Reid, LMFT Call today to schedule and appointment with Kyle at 801.272.3420

Connections AdminMarch 11, 2017

Do you struggle with a pornography addiction or sexual addiction? Take control. Addiction EducationGeneral ArticlesKyle Reid LMFTPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Do you struggle with a pornography addiction or sexual addiction? Take control.

Kyle M. Reid, LMFT Call today to schedule and appointment with Kyle at 801.272.3420

Connections AdminMarch 10, 2017

Never Again Addiction EducationDr. Chris HughesPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Never Again

How many have felt our passion to NEVER AGAIN indulge in our addiction has been like…

Connections AdminDecember 4, 2016

Adding insult to injury Addiction EducationDr. Chris HughesPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Adding insult to injury

Yesterday I remembered how in my addiction, when I felt emotionally cornered, I would sometimes…

Connections AdminNovember 26, 2016

When You Are Sober You Feel Better Pornography AddictionSex Addiction

When You Are Sober You Feel Better

I am going to repeat what someone in recovery have said - "when you are…

Connections AdminOctober 13, 2016

Getting Sobriety Into Your Sub-Conscious Mind Pornography AddictionSex Addiction

Getting Sobriety Into Your Sub-Conscious Mind

I have a couple of recovering friends dealing with rejection from their spouse.  Staying sober…

Connections AdminOctober 10, 2016

Sponsoring. Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Sponsoring.

Sponsors simply sow.  Their seeds fall on different types of ground and then do what…

Connections AdminOctober 7, 2016

Finding the best, most lasting, and most satisfying romance! Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Finding the best, most lasting, and most satisfying romance!

And as we more and more come to God rather than the fantasy of what…

Connections AdminOctober 3, 2016

Addictive Thinking: Hypersensitivity Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Addictive Thinking: Hypersensitivity

Addictive minds have a hypersensitivity to perceived injustices against themselves. While they see themselves as…

Connections AdminOctober 1, 2016

Insight on Step 4 Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Insight on Step 4

I encourage my sponsees toward a brief summary of the "incident pattern" that led to the…

Connections AdminSeptember 26, 2016

Nagging Rejecting Women – and Lust Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Nagging Rejecting Women – and Lust

Note to sponsee: The feelings you experience surrounding women such as the coworker at the…

Connections AdminSeptember 22, 2016

Intellectualizing Recovery Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Intellectualizing Recovery

Some men in recovery are intellectuals, and can sometimes be intellectual bullies to their wives…

Connections AdminSeptember 22, 2016

Your Higher Power Isn’t Your Wife! Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Your Higher Power Isn’t Your Wife!

(please note that names have been changed below) Thanks for these thoughts, John.   I…

Connections AdminAugust 26, 2016

Living in Dignity and Love With Your Wife as You Recover Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Living in Dignity and Love With Your Wife as You Recover

Dear Sponsee, My heart often still aches for my ex-wife.   If I could go back…

Connections AdminAugust 24, 2016

First Step Inventory Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

First Step Inventory

Dear Sponsee, My heart goes out to you as you work your first step inventory,…

Connections AdminAugust 22, 2016

Prayer Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Prayer

Prayer is something that the addict might have not had good experiences with or feels…

Connections AdminAugust 17, 2016

Self Forgiveness Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Self Forgiveness

I struggled with self-forgiveness for a long time. I found I had to learn to…

Connections AdminAugust 17, 2016

See and React to our Emotional and Relational Environment Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

See and React to our Emotional and Relational Environment

Recovery results in our becoming more flexible and accurate in our thinking - to see…

Connections AdminAugust 12, 2016

Depression and Anxiety in Recovery Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Depression and Anxiety in Recovery

You may have heard that as we recover we feel better.  We feel resentment better,…

Connections AdminAugust 10, 2016

Mindfulness in Recovery Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Mindfulness in Recovery

Practicing mindfulness is helpful to recovery.   Step 4 and 5 are what REALY helped…

Connections AdminAugust 8, 2016

Make Calls Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Make Calls

One thing I want to emphasize, because it is not easy,  but it makes a…

Connections AdminAugust 2, 2016

What Recovering Men do Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

What Recovering Men do

It wasn’t simply working the program itself that had an effect on healing and real…

Connections AdminJuly 26, 2016

Keep your focus this summer! Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Keep your focus this summer!

“Street lust”  means being particularly aware of attractive women (substitute men if that that is…

Connections AdminJuly 25, 2016

Dear Recovering Man… Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Dear Recovering Man…

Dear Recovering Man,   Is there are a part of you that believes that just…

Connections AdminJuly 20, 2016

Keeping Connections Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Keeping Connections

So good that you are finding sobriety - which for me has always associated with…

Connections AdminJuly 18, 2016

Your drug of choice Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Your drug of choice

  As time passed in my sobriety, many other emotions presented themselves that I had…

Connections AdminJuly 15, 2016

Regulating Resentment Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Regulating Resentment

A note to a sponsee:  It is interesting how you spoke of your recovery time…

Connections AdminJuly 14, 2016

Feeling Whole – The Real Connection Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Feeling Whole – The Real Connection

There was always something about certain attractive women which fit a certain attraction template I…

Connections AdminJuly 14, 2016

Inflated Emotions Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Inflated Emotions

I found in my mid-range recovery that sometimes I would come across a thought or…

Connections AdminJuly 7, 2016

Committments Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Committments

Commitments are different than "things-I-would-also-like-to-do" or goals I have.  So as an Addicted, ADD, commitment-guy-in-training…

Connections AdminJuly 6, 2016

Note to Those in Recovery Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Note to Those in Recovery

Note to Those Individuals in Recovery: You are doing well and that should be congratulated…

Connections AdminJune 22, 2016

Finding Higher Power, Aid to Recovery Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Finding Higher Power, Aid to Recovery

  For me, when I first got sober, it made me feel better, as they…

Connections AdminJune 20, 2016

Are you fighting your addiction? Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Are you fighting your addiction?

Are you fighting your addiction? On being tired of controlling and fighting all your lust…

Connections AdminJune 20, 2016

Do you resent God for not just healing you sooner? Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Do you resent God for not just healing you sooner?

Do you insist on being stuck?  Do you resent God for not just healing you…

Connections AdminJune 17, 2016

Do you feel a need to escape? Addiction EducationPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Do you feel a need to escape?

Do you feel a need to escape?   T.V. Series are super fun and give…

Connections AdminJune 15, 2016

A Parent’s Guide to Porn: 5 Ways to Limit the Effects of Porn on Your Kids Adolescents and TeensDaniel Caldwell CMHCGeneral ArticlesMarriage and FamilyPornography AddictionSex Addiction

A Parent’s Guide to Porn: 5 Ways to Limit the Effects of Porn on Your Kids

By: Daniel Caldwell, CMHC In October of this year (2015) I was scrolling through the…

Connections AdminDecember 22, 2015

Infidelity in Relationships General ArticlesKyle Reid LMFTMarriage and FamilyPornography AddictionSex Addiction

Infidelity in Relationships

By Kyle M. Reid, LMFT Sexual infidelity in a relationship causes significant distress to the…

Connections AdminMay 20, 2015

What is Sexual Addiction Addiction EducationDaniel Caldwell CMHCGeneral ArticlesSex Addiction

What is Sexual Addiction

By Daniel Caldwell, CMHC The term addict can sound pretty scary and that’s because it…

Connections AdminApril 24, 2015

Warning Signs That Your Partner Might Be Looking at Porn General ArticlesKyle Reid LMFTMarriage and FamilyPornography Addiction

Warning Signs That Your Partner Might Be Looking at Porn

Here is a blog I wrote that helps partners of sex addicts understand and see some…

Connections AdminJanuary 19, 2015

10 Essential Steps to Overcoming Pornography Addiction Addiction EducationGeneral ArticlesPornography Addiction

10 Essential Steps to Overcoming Pornography Addiction

Ever since Internet came onto the scene, pornography addiction has become a major problem to…

Connections AdminJanuary 19, 2015