Going Deeper: How the Inner Child Impacts Your Sexual Addiction
In terms of yourself, sexual abstinence is a great way to find out how fulfilled you are as a person. The reason that you have acted out in a sexual way may well have been to fulfill deep longings and hurts that are still unhealed in your soul. There is always a need driving lust, and you do not want to allow that to continue.
John Townsend • Boundaries in Dating: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Relationships
Some taboos are born of childhood and adolescent wounds that often have very little to do with sex.
John Wineland • From the Core: A New Masculine Paradigm for Leading with Love, Living Your Truth, and Healing the World
Therapy builds on the idea of a return to live feelings. It’s only when we’re properly in touch with our feelings that we can correct them with the help of our more mature faculties – and thereby address the real troubles of our adult lives.
Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Maladaptive coping strategies, often learned from our parent-figures, give us a brief distraction or reprieve from the discomfort (say, by drinking alcohol at a wedding, as I did) or avoiding any emotional reaction (as I also did when I dissociated). Either of these attempts at relieving our distress, however, ends up in more disconnection from the
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