Archive for June, 2007

Sex Addiction

Sunday 10 June 2007 at 8:56 am · Filed under addiction, counselling, shame ·Tagged

Greetings all - from wintery Waikato, New Zealand,

A few brief notes on Sexual Addiction.

Sexual addiction is more about masking stress and shame than about sex. A form of self-medication for the pain in one’s life. In the words of James Brown: “I feel good…”

Masturbation on a repeated basis, with or without porn, is a common form of sex addiction.

The compulsion starts with curiosity and escalates until it consumes a person’s life - body, soul, and spirit.

Anger, loneliness, and confusion are common feelings for both addicts and their partners.

http://www.sexaddict.com/ - Douglas Weiss’ website - check out his books.

Help is available …

regards,
Mark

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Addictions - ‘Think and Do’ Differently

Saturday 2 June 2007 at 8:48 am · Filed under addiction ·Tagged

Greetings everyone,

Been reading up more on Addictions:

Bondage doesn’t respond to common sense, logic, and clear thinking.

Alcoholics Anonymous calls such actions “insanity”, which they define as “continuing to do the same thing and expecting different results”.

- on page 27, “Freedom From Addiction”, by Neil Anderson (with M+J Quarles), Regal Books, 1996. [Read reviews at Amazon.com]

As Mike Riddell quotes in his “Living Wisdom” course:
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got”.

The computer industry talk about: GIGO (Garbage in, garbage out).

Here’s some links that have some truths for you:

http://www.freedomfromaddiction.org/
http://www.freedomfromaddiction.org/truths.htm - more than a dozen articles **
http://www.freedomfromaddiction.org/Truths/answer.html

Living in the Truth,

Mark

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