Going Deeper: How the Inner Child Impacts Your Sexual Addiction

The gradual accumulation of unfinished mental and emotional business can lead to chronic anxiety, fear, confusion, emptiness, and unhappiness.”

Stop running away from the emotional pain impacting your inner child and instead learn to sit with hurtful emotions.

The inner child, who has experienced frightening and confusing moments throughout your young life, sits in the background of your subconscious. And while he may produce a constant, low-level grumbling of anxiety in some of us, his real presence is felt when he becomes activated by core emotional triggers. See,

But the truth is we are afraid of feeling.

I estimate nine of 10 men who come into my office for help are also dealing with a low emotional IQ.

this approach flies in the face of the inner child’s objective – “I need to do whatever will help me feel safe.” Can you see the dilemma?

For men who grow up in low-stimulation environments, the discovery of sex is an internal waking. Now their attention is laser-focused on sex as they continue to feed their newfound desire for stimulation. They feel alive, and life has finally provided something to look forward to. Sex serves as the mental and emotional rush that creates surreal exp

These kids were given the message their desires and needs did not matter, and in turn, this evolved into anger and bitterness. As adults, when similar emotional pain erupts that causes the inner child to scream, “my needs don’t matter,” the entitlement wheel starts in motion.

Sexual addiction is not about sex. It is the result of a man’s inability to identify and process emotional pain and distress.