You may be struggling with sexual behaviours that you dislike or you feel are out of your control.
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The good news is many have learned to control their behaviour. You can do the same.
You just need the right type of help.
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We get it. Talking about sex isn’t always easy—but we’re here to show you it can be done safely.
Below are organizations, people, videos, and books which you may find helpful in your journey towards healing.
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Support Groups
The best thing you can hear while struggling with an addiction is "Me Too" These are places you can be accepted by people like you.
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous focuses on "any sexual or emotional act, no matter what its initial impulse may be, which leads to loss of control over rate, frequency, or duration of its occurrence or recurrence, resulting in spiritual, mental, physical, emotional, and moral destruction of oneself and others."
Sex addiction Therapists
A therapist can help you deal with the struggles and thought patterns behind your behavior. These are just a few of the many you can reach out to.
Clean Class
Dr. Doug Weiss is a world renown Sex Addiction Therapist who operates the Heart to Heart Counseling Center in Colorado Springs, CO. This is his series about getting free from sexual addiction, pornography and even lust from a christian perspective.
Listening To shame
Brene Brown is a world renown shame researcher who outlines in this series of Ted Talks how we can live free of the things that keep bringing us back to our self destructive habits and addictions.
Books
OUT OF THE SHADOWS
A book about understanding what sexual addiction is and what the consequences are. The first of many books by Patrick Carnes, who pioneered the idea of a sexual addiction.
DON'T CALL IT LOVE
A book about helping the sexual addict.
FACING THE SHADOW
A book about starting sexual and relationship recovery.
THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE
A book about the way trauma and stress affect our mind and body.
CAPTIVATING
A book the wounds that women carry and how to be the person that you were meant to be. The author is a Christian.
Pure Desire
A book about a man who was addicted to sex and was able to break free. He shares his knowledge and experience to help people going through similar struggles
IN THE SHADOW OF THE NET
A book about breaking free of compulsive online sexual behavior.
CRUISE CONTROL
A book about what it means to be gay and a sexual addict.
"Robert Weiss takes directly from Patrick Carnes's playbook... but adds such relevant information for a gay man."
WILD AT HEART
A book the wounds that men carry and how to be the person that you were meant to be. The author is a Christian.
