Sexual Addiction:Strength/Hope/Recovery

Tonight I will be interviewing Jean Collins-Stuckert who will be talking about a workshop that she is facilitating at the Meadows for women with sexual disorders.She will be talking about the differences in treatment between male and female patients and she will be addressing how they treat women who experience so much sexual shame. She will be addressing why it is so hard for women to seek help for sexual disorders. For over 35 years The Meadows In Wickenburg, AZ  has been a world renowned dual diagnosis treatment program and licensed psychiatric hospital. The Meadows specializes in  providing treatment for trauma and addiction. We also have two specialty programs, one for young adults (ages 18-26) and one for male sex addiction. Our treatment  is guided by the leadership of Senior Fellows and pioneers Patrick Carnes, Claudia Black, Pia Mellody, Peter Levine, and Alex Katahakis. The length of stay is 45 days for all programs.   The Meadows offers a variety of unique, five-day workshops available to all interested individuals.  These workshops specifically address the needs of those who have just begun a recovery process or who have been on a recovery path and may be stuck or want to deepen/heighten their experience. It can also be a source of renewal for anyone who has undergone treatment. Participants work on sensitive issues in a concentrated format, allowing them to enhance their personal journey by gaining insight into dysfunctional, embroiled patterns, and practicing new relational skills within a safe environment. Sexual Addiction is a disorder that requires strategies to assist you in maintaining recovery. Carol the Coach is a Certified Sexual Addictions Therapist who is ready to take you on the journey and expose you to the experts who will guide you through the steps.

  Dealing with sexual addiction and knowing when to tell the kids can be rough .Children of sex addicts need to know that they are not alone in their suffering, That help is available to them, and that families do get better with treatment.  These children need to know that they did not cause their parent’s sex addiction, nor can they control it or cure it.  In words and pictures, this book conveys this powerful message for children ages 6 to 12.  The only children’s book of its kind, Daddy’s Secret Cedar Chest is aimed at parents, therapists, pediatricians, and other professionals working with children who might be struggling in the wake of this addiction. Carol the Coach is going to be interviewing Geoff Goodman who is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified sex addiction therapist, and professor of psychology at Long Island University.  In 22 years of practice, Dr. Goodman has been writing and helping children understand their feelings better.  He lives in Forest Hills, New York, with his wife Valeda, daughter Carlyn, and Savannah cat, Nahla. His book illustrates how to help children in their coping with this difficult illness. Sexual Addiction is a disorder that requires strategies to assist you in maintaining recovery. This show is to help you access the books, the experts and the people who are managing recovery with The 12 Step Program and Patrick Carnes Recovery Task Model that reinforces the steps you need to take to manage your recovery and take your life through the journey so that you not only conquer the "Addict" but develop into the person you were meant to be! Carol the Coach is a Certified Sexual Addictions Therapist who is ready to take you on the journey and expose you to the experts who will guide you through the steps.  

Carol the Coach will be interviewing expert Staci Sprout about traumatic experience and grief and transformation.  Post Traumatic Transformation is the sacred process of healing the negative effects of trauma held in one's mind, heart, body, and spirit. It involves learning to stop acting out the trauma story, and instead interpret its language directly to empower the natural grief process. In teaching about Post Traumatic Transformation, Staci weaves her own story with her perspective as a therapist to describe how the natural grief process gets put on hold by traumatic experiences, as our minds shift into survival mode to protect us from overwhelm. She explains how the support of therapy, 12-step fellowships, and other forms of healing can evoke a "thawing out" of traumatic grief, which can lead us back to addictions, or forward to deeper growth and transformation.  Two visual charts Staci will be referring to in this presentation can be found at her website www.stacisprout.com under the tab “Post Traumatic Transformation,” along with more resources on this topic.    Sexual Addiction is a disorder that requires strategies to assist you in maintaining recovery. This show is to help you access the books, the experts and the people who are managing recovery with The 12 Step Program and Patrick Carnes Recovery Task Model that reinforces the steps you need to take to manage your recovery and take your life through the journey so that you not only conquer the "Addict" but develop into the person you were meant to be! Carol the Coach is a Certified Sexual Addictions Therapist who is ready to take you on the journey and expose you to the experts who will guide you through the steps.

You want to know what tools are available to combat internet ography... Luke Gilkerson is going to be talking about Covenant Eyes which is one of the leaders in internet accountability software programs for your phone, tablet and computer. If you have wondered how to use Internet accountability software, you will get alot of information about this kind of service and how it can be an accountability tool for you to abstain from internet and increase your recovery from sexual addiction.  I recommend Covenant Eyes because it is one of the best accountability software programs out there! Sexual Addiction is a disorder that requires strategies to assist you in maintaining recovery. This show is to help you access the books, the experts and the people who are managing recovery with The 12 Step Program and Patrick Carnes Recovery Task Model that reinforces the steps you need to take to manage your recovery and take your life through the journey so that you not only conquer the "Addict" but develop into the person you were meant to be! Carol Juergensen Sheets aka Carol the Coach is a Certified Sexual Addictions Therapist who is ready to take you on the journey of sexual addiction recovery and expose you to the experts who will guide you through the steps.

Clinicians who work with sexual addiction know that the partner of a sex addicted is deeply wounded and often times goes untreated while the addict works diligently towards recovery. Barbara Steffen PhD is the co author of the book Your Sexually Addicted Spouse, How Partners Can Cope and Heal. This book has been revolutionary in changing how we work with partners and is seen as visionary in its approach. Listen as Barbara talks about the new training that therapists will be given to assist partners in their own recovery from treatment. Sexual Addiction can be managed if you utilize a variety of resources. This radio show teaches you the recovery tasks needed to work through the shame that accompanies this compulsion. Carol the Coach has worked with 1000's of clients who have fought this disorder and learned how to manage it and live fully optimal lives. Listen to her as she shares her wisdom and interviews the experts in her field. Carol Juergensen Sheets is a certified sexual addictions counselor and was trained by Dr. Patrick Carnes who has been instrumental in developing programs and clinical skill sets that promote recovery,

Are you afraid of conflict? Do you use positive self talk to navigate you through the rigors of life? When you are an addict you typically let self loathing take the place of healthy behaviors but in this episode,Carol talks about the essential types of life skills that feed healthy outer circle behaviors. When you are in recovery or striving for that you need to take your life to the next level by learning the skills that help to make you authentic and authentic. That means you have to practice rigorous honesty even in the face of conflict. Listen as Carol talks about those all important skills that help to create the life you deserve! Sexual Addiction can be managed if you utilize a variety of resources. This radio show teaches you the recovery tasks needed to work through the shame that accompanies this compulsion. Carol the Coach has worked with 1000's of clients who have fought this disorder and learned how to manage it and live fully optimal lives. Listen to her as she shares her wisdom and interviews the experts in her field. Carol Juergensen Sheets is a certified sexual addictions counselor and was trained by Dr. Patrick Carnes who has been instrumental in developing programs and clinical skill sets that promote recovery, Read more: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sexhelpwithcarolthecoach/2014/09/02/can-you-have-sex-and-love-addiction-with-carol-the-coach#ixzz3DQz64t9k

Carol the Coach interviews Joe.... a recovering sex addict. Listen as Joe talks about how his wife discovered his sexual addiction and how it motivated him to work seriously on his recovery, He talks about how instrumental the recovery tools were to his sobriety and what it took to live his program "one day at a time." Sexual Addiction is a disorder that requires strategies to assist you in maintaining recovery. This show is to help you access the books, the experts and the people who are managing recovery with The 12 Step Program and Patrick Carnes Recovery Task Model that reinforces the steps you need to take to manage your recovery and take your life through the journey so that you not only conquer the "Addict" but develop into the person you were meant to be! Carol the Coach is a Certified Sexual Addictions Therapist who is ready to take you on the journey and expose you to the experts who will guide you through the steps.

Sexual Addiction is a disorder that requires strategies to assist you in maintaining recovery. This show is to help you access the books, the experts and the people who are managing recovery with The 12 Step Program and Patrick Carnes Recovery Task Model that reinforces the steps you need to take to manage your recovery and take your life through the journey so that you not only conquer the "Addict" but develop into the person you were meant to be! Carol the Coach is a Certified Sexual Addictions Therapist who is ready to take you on the journey and expose you to the experts who will guide you through the steps.

 Mark is both a sex addict and a love addict that has been in serious recovery for about a year. Mark wants to share his experience with early recovery and the unique dynamics in being both a sex addict and a love addict at the same time.  Mark hopes that his stories will help pave the path for people early in recovery and share insights into what has worked and what he should have done sooner as far as both addictions are concerned. In addition, to this Mark wants to share about the unique way love addiction and sex addiction reinforces each other. Sexual Addiction can be managed if you utilize a variety of resources. This radio show teaches you the recovery tasks needed to work through the shame that accompanies this compulsion. Carol the Coach has worked with 1000's of clients who have fought this disorder and learned how to manage it and live fully optimal lives. Listen to her as she shares her wisdom and interviews the experts in her field. Carol Juergensen Sheets is a certified sexual addictions counselor and was trained by Dr. Patrick Carnes who has been instrumental in developing programs and clinical skill sets that promote recovery,

Somatic Experiencing is a treatment approach that addresses trauma. Carol the Coach will be interviewing Megan Ross/Timberline Knolls  who has the expertise to assist people with their trauma. Whether a trauma is physical in nature or not, the proven relationship between trauma and its effects on the body and brain, from the field of neuroscience is mounting. Somatic Experiencing is a form of therapy aimed at relieving and resolving the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental and physical trauma-related health problems by focusing on the client’s perceived body sensations (or somatic experiences). Through integrating principals derived from Somatic Experiencing, we can further cultivate present moment functioning, tolerance of sensations, response flexibility, differentiation, regulation, and integration. Sexual Addiction is a disorder that requires strategies to assist you in maintaining recovery. This show is to help you access the books, the experts and the people who are managing recovery with The 12 Step Program and Patrick Carnes Recovery Task Model that reinforces the steps you need to take to manage your recovery and take your life through the journey so that you not only conquer the "Addict" but develop into the person you were meant to be! Carol the Coach is a Certified Sexual Addictions Therapist who is ready to take you on the journey and expose you to the experts who will guide you through the steps.

Sex addicts and their partners have a higher incidence of sexual abuse in their history. This can show up as trauma reenactment for the addict. Partners can often be magnetized to the addict because of their own sexual abuse in their past. Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Catherine McCall who wrote the UK bestseller Never Tell A True Story of Overcoming a Terrifying Childhood. She not only tells her tale of trauma but she talks about how she recovered from the trauma and used it to become the woman she is today!   Sexual Addiction is a disorder that requires strategies to assist you in maintaining recovery. This show is to help you access the books, the experts and the people who are managing recovery with The 12 Step Program and Patrick Carnes Recovery Task Model that reinforces the steps you need to take to manage your recovery and take your life through the journey so that you not only conquer the "Addict" but develop into the person you were meant to be! Carol the Coach is a Certified Sexual Addictions Therapist who is ready to take you on the journey and expose you to the experts who will guide you through the steps.

Whether you are a partner or a sex addict.....you have likely experienced anxiety as a result of this disorder. Carol the Coach will be interviewing Christine Turo Shields on how to manage that anxiety that unfortunatley is a natural by-product of both sex addiction and loving a sex addict. Learn the different types of anxiety and how they show up in your life. Christine and Carol will take you through the normal steps to managing it so that you can deal with the real issues and take control of your life! Sexual Addiction is a disorder that requires strategies to assist you in maintaining recovery. This show is to help you access the books, the experts and the people who are managing recovery with The 12 Step Program and Patrick Carnes Recovery Task Model that reinforces the steps you need to take to manage your recovery and take your life through the journey so that you not only conquer the "Addict" but develop into the person you were meant to be! Carol the Coach is a Certified Sexual Addictions Therapist who is ready to take you on the journey and expose you to the experts who will guide you through the steps.

Sexual Addiction takes no strangers. Rebecca Allard talks with Carol the Coach about her romance that went dangerously bad. She shares her love and sex addiction to a convicted felon and how that addiction to danger and the journey that almost overtook her until she reclaimed her heart, mind and soul. In this powerful interview, Carol the Coach will uncover her desperate hopelessness and her long  and arduous trek back to herself.  Sexual and Love Addiction is a disorder that requires strategies to assist you in maintaining recovery. This show is to help you access the books, the experts and the people who are managing recovery with The 12 Step Program and Patrick Carnes Recovery Task Model that reinforces the steps you need to take to manage your recovery and take your life through the journey so that you not only conquer the "Addict" but develop into the person you were meant to be! Carol the Coach is a Certified Sexual Addictions Therapist who is ready to take you on the journey and expose you to the experts who will guide you through the steps.

Do you know how to tend your sobriety garden? Are there compulsive activities or negative influences that make it difficult to stay on course in your sexual addiction recovery?  Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Angie Ridings, M.Ed., LPC, LADC, CSAT, CMAT about how she uses the analogy of tending your garden as a long term recovery plan. Angie will provide you with 10 key essentials to tending your garden. Angie Ridings is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor. She is also a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist as well as a Certified Multiple Addiction Therapist.  She specializes in sex addiction, chemical addiction and trauma resolution. Sexual Addiction is a disorder that requires strategies to assist you in maintaining recovery. This show is to help you access the books, the experts and the people who are managing recovery with The 12 Step Program and Patrick Carnes Recovery Task Model that reinforces the steps you need to take to manage your recovery and take your life through the journey so that you not only conquer the "Addict" but develop into the person you were meant to be! Carol the Coach is a Certified Sexual Addictions Therapist who is ready to take you on the journey and expose you to the experts who will guide you through the steps.

Sexual Reintegration is important after your partner  discovers the trauma of your actions. But the process is slow and it takes alot of patience and time. Drs. Bill and Ginger Bercaw are the masters of this tough topic and have written two best sellers on how to return to sex after pain, betrayal and mistrust.There newest book From the Living Room to the Bedroom: The Modern Couples Guide to Sexual Abundance and Lasting Intimacy  utilizes their new technique CoupleFlow which is a model that has allowed hundreds of crazy-busy, tech-bombarded, multiple hat wearing couples to overcome the ever-growing list of intimacy obstacles that modern couples face.  Sexual Addiction is a disorder that requires strategies to assist you in maintaining recovery. This show is to help you access the books, the experts and the people who are managing recovery with The 12 Step Program and Patrick Carnes Recovery Task Model that reinforces the steps you need to take to manage your recovery and take your life through the journey so that you not only conquer the "Addict" but develop into the person you were meant to be! Carol the Coach is a Certified Sexual Addictions Therapist who is ready to take you on the journey and expose you to the experts who will guide you through the steps.