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What You'll Hear In This Episode:What are the signs that the man you are involved with or just met may have a porn addiction? How is porn addiction different from other addictions? Why people can't “just stop” their addiction, especially one to porn. Why men tend to have porn addictions, how it affects their rewards system and dopamine levels, and how it disrupts their whole life. How a man's porn addiction isn't about your flaws or shortcomings in any way, and how to seek treatment for yourself if you are involved with a porn addict. Why addicts and codependents seem to be attracted to one another. Warning signs your partner is addicted to porn.Is there any hope for dating a porn addict, or should you just cut your losses and leave? Continue On Your JourneyLisa Shield | YouTube | Facebook | Instagram | Book a Call With LisaEmail the podcast at: DWDpod@lisashield.comMentioned:Center for Healthy SexAl-Anon CoDaQuotes: “For men that are addicted to porn, it's everywhere, they can't get away with it.” “People use their addictions to escape their feelings and almost everyone has an addiction of some kind.”

Sex addicts who knowingly have sex with their spouses while having unprotected sex with others are violating their spouses by undermining her self-determination over her body.  When the partner of the SA has no idea she's been "having sex" with her spouse's sex workers, a crime has been committed. Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Alex Katehakis, Ph.D, Clinical Director of Center for Healthy Sex, who believes that sex in a relationship where intimate deception is taking place is a non-consensual act and leaves many partners feeling "raped"  having been exposed to multiple sex partners and the potential to contract an STI, some of which can be fatal. Find out why few women get honest enough with themselves about the gravity of this type of gross violation!

A porn addict is looking for connection, warmth, and comfort but they're scared of being vulnerable and rejected by someone in real life. So, the brain has found a synthetic version of the connection they're craving. There's nothing wrong with wanting to feel intimacy but we have been conditioned to be less relational as far as eye-to-eye, person-to-person contact.  - Greg Woodhill What exactly are the detrimental effects of porn and sex addiction to both the brain and heart?   ---> Join the Wellness Warrior VIP Club: get exclusive discounts on new wellness tools, be first in line for new podcasts, get access to invite-only events, and so much more.** ---> Get The Morning 21: A powerful (and free) system designed to give you more energy, let go of old weight, and live life well. JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP | *REVIEW*   Wellness Force Radio Episode 288 Licensed psychotherapist in the fields of family and marriage as well as sex and porn addiction plus the host of the A Brave New Man Podcast, Greg Woodhill, LMFT, CSAT, shares why inner conflict is driving our addictions, why all porn addicts really just want connection, and how porn trains the mind to be less understanding and passionate compared to what we can learn from a real-life relationship. Listen and find out why people often gravitate towards porn when they're trying to work through unresolved issues from the past.   A Brave New Man Podcast Click here to listen to A Brave New Man Podcast Do you want to be a better man or have a better relationship with your man? Then follow along with Greg Woodhill as he interviews experts and non-experts on masculinity, love and connection. Topics range from cheating & infidelity, to the Me Too movement, porn addiction and happy relationships.     Listen To Episode 288 As Greg Woodhill Uncovers: The honor he feels when he is the first person people go to for help with their sex addiction. Various categories of sex addiction and why addiction isn't always intercourse for some people but porn instead. Signs to be aware of that an unwanted behavior is actually an addiction. The fact that in 2017, 46% of 11-13-year-olds had already seen porn. Easy access that people have to porn through the internet compared to decades ago when this online world didn't exist. Why it's so difficult to regulate the amount of porn that is available to us especially online. Why so many people are attached to porn because it's an inanimate object that won't judge them like an actual person in real life. Facts that the vast amount of pornography is made, produced or created by men for men while the women are experts at selling it by allowing themselves to be humiliated, dominated, and hurt. What Porn Addicts Are Actually Craving how porn can build up a person's shame, negative thoughts, and eroticized rage. The term, 'pornosexual,' for those who prefer to be with pornography than be with another person. Our natural desire and need to procreate and how porn takes that natural drive and funnels it to a place that's solo, secretive, and far less scary than being rejected by another person. How smartphones have increased the impact on our lethargy, anxiety, sleep, focus, and our need for distraction. What porn addicts are actually craving for including warmth, connection, and acceptance The synthetic condition of porn and how it mirrors want addicts desire the most. You don't need permission to open up to share your thoughts and emotions with other people. How he helps men understand and realize that it's okay to let someone know when they've hurt your feelings or what emotions you're experiencing. Chaos vs. Order - Why the chaos of addiction can actually be a means for showing us order and love for those who are ready to get real with their emotions. Diagnostic criteria for porn addiction to help you discover whether are living with it or not.   Power Quotes From The Show   Fear Of Rejection And Judgement "Porn doesn't judge you and thus the attachment to the sexual experience is one in which the person is completely in control; it's a one-person system. So, if you bring that person to a room where there is another living, breathing human being who has feelings, needs, and preferences, it's like a record scratch." - Greg Woodhill     What Is A 'Pornosexual'? "A pornosexual is not a sexual orientation but someone who would rather be with pornography than a man, woman, both, or neither. Pornography has become their first choice because that is what they're attracted to. It doesn't mean that all of a sudden they're not attracted to real people but it means that when someone sees a person they're attracted to, they have the need to go watch porn." - Greg Woodhill   Porn's Affect On The Brain "When someone becomes so consumed by pornography that it takes their natural drive and funnels it into a place that is solo, secretive, and far less dangerous and scary than walking up to a person and saying, "Hello," so that they can reject you while porn can't, it takes the brain to a level of hyper-stimulation because the amount of dopamine that is created in their brain is far greater than what a real-life encounter can create. I'm not saying porn is better or more exciting, any in-person physicality or romance is far better in every way but as far as dopamine, porn creates a craving so intense that it's all people want instead of trying to finding a way to enrich their life with a real person because they're afraid of rejection." - Greg Woodhill   Our Essence Of Love "We are all born with the essence of love. That's it, that's who we are. You don't need to learn to love or love yourself, you need to allow the love that you were born with and remove the obstacles that are in front of it. One of the biggest obstacles to feeling peace, love, joy, connection, and intimacy with other people, for a lot of people, especially young men, is the fact that porn is their lifeline." - Greg Woodhill     Links From Today's Show Organifi Porn Addiction Stats - Pornography Addiction Statistics, Percentages, Numbers, & Info The Digital Generation These 16 U.S. States Passed Resolutions Recognizing Porn As A Public Health Issue 046 Dr. John Gray 208 Maddy Moon David Deida "Pornography Addiction" in 2017 Pornography Addiction Leads To Same Brain Activity As Alcoholism Or Drug Abuse, Study Shows The great porn experiment | Gary Wilson | TEDxGlasgow 012 Dan Pardi 048 Nir Eyal Sex Expert Webinar Series: Porn Addiction, Toxic Masculinity, and Anger Charles Duhigg Sex Therapy Lecture Series: Greg Woodhill - Porn Addiction: Kryptonite to Intimacy Greg Woodhill: Root Causes Of Porn Addiction And Healing With Real Intimacy Sex and Relationship Healing A Brave New Man Podcast with Greg Woodhill Greg Woodhill, MFT, CSAT LinkedIn Instagram Twitter   About Greg Woodhill Greg Woodhill, MFT, CSAT is a licensed psychotherapist who has spent thousands of hours directly helping sex and porn addicts recover from their addictions. He strongly believes that true psychological and emotional growth can only occur in a safe environment, which he provides for his clients through long-term therapeutic work. He holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Santa Monica, where he developed his personal therapeutic style of empathic listening, exploring early childhood trauma, and encouraging personal responsibility. He is a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist and spent 5 years working at the Center For Healthy Sex in Los Angeles under the mentorship of Alexandra Katehakis. He is passionate about the topic of addiction in all shapes and sizes, and he loves working with addicts to help them recover their passion and strength so that they can create true intimacy in their lives.   Join The #WellnessWarrior VIP Club **Click on the photo above to get exclusive discounts on new wellness tools, be first in line for new podcasts, get access to invite-only events, and so much more.**   More Top Episodes 226 Paul Chek: The Revolution Is Coming (3 Part Series) 131 Drew Manning: Emotional Fitness 129 Gretchen Rubin: The Four Tendencies  183 Dr. Kyra Bobinet: Brain Science 196 Aubrey Marcus: Own The Day 103 Robb Wolf: Wired To Eat Best of The Best: The Top 10 Guests From over 200 Shows Get More Wellness In Your Life Join the #WellnessWarrior Community on Facebook Tweet us on Twitter: Send us a tweet Comment on the Facebook page

Sex addicts who knowingly have sex with their spouses while having unprotected sex with others are violating their spouses by undermining her self-determination over her body.  When the partner of the SA has no idea she's been "having sex" with her spouse's sex workers, a crime has been committed. Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Alex Katehakis, Ph.D, Clinical Director of Center for Healthy Sex, who believes that sex in a relationship where intimate deception is taking place is a non-consensual act and leaves many partners feeling "raped"  having been exposed to multiple sex partners and the potential to contract an STI, some of which can be fatal. Find out why few women get honest enough with themselves about the gravity of this type of gross violation!

Episode 244: Greg Woodhill, MFT, CSAT is a licensed psychotherapist who has spent thousands of hours directly helping sex and porn addicts recover from their addictions. He strongly believes that true psychological and emotional growth can only occur in a safe environment, which he provides for his clients through long-term therapeutic work. He holds a Master's Degree from the University of Santa Monica, where he developed his personal therapeutic style of empathic listening, exploring early childhood trauma, and encouraging personal responsibility. He is a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, and spent 5 years working at the Center For Healthy Sex in Los Angeles under the mentorship of Alexandra Katehakis. He is passionate about the topic of addiction in all shapes and sizes, and he loves working with addicts to help them recover their passion and strength, so that they can create true intimacy in their lives. Show notes: To get a free 30-day trial of Audible + 1 free book, go here: http://audibletrial.com/mindbodymusings The Feminine Surrender Retreat - learn more on how best friends are formed: https://maddymoon.com/retreat-soul-mates/ How Greg got into this line of work and why he became interested in the profound effects that pornography has on men. The freedom that opens up for men once they start talking about this. Staggering pornography statistics. "It's hard to find a man that doesn't watch porn." Maddy's first experience watching porn. “I take no moral, ethical or religious perspective with porn. I don’t think it’s good or bad.” Porn is made for men by men in general. “I don’t think anyone needs to stop watching porn unless they believe it’s causing problems in their lives.” What it means when Greg says, "The porn is choosing them and they’re sexualizing their pain.” The upsides to porn — how it builds confidence, reduces shame and education, exciting, make you feel, soothing, sexy, fun. The dark side to porn and how it affects our unresolved emotional issues. Why you choose the type of porn that you do? “People gravitate to porn when they’re trying to work through unemotional material from the past.” A question Greg only asks during his therapy sessions: "If we could remove the sexual arousal from this experience, what experiences would you be experiencing?" "They’re porn watching to feel adequate." “Healing is the application of love to the places inside that hurt.” Why do they sexualize this pain instead of using drugs/alcohol for example? The false assumptions around pornography. Most of the time, the partner of a porn addict that doesn’t know that they’re with a porn addict. Erectile dysfunction and low libido are often accompanying effects with porn addicts. What do you do as a partner who is in a relationship with a porn addict? “The partner of a porn addict needs their own hope and healing.” Resources for pornography/sex-related addiction: sexandrelationshiphealing.com   pornaddicthubby.com iitap.com The important structure, boundaries, and guidelines you need as a partner of a porn addict. The importance of weekly check-in sobriety meetings. A reminder: you can set boundaries with love. A Brave New Man Podcast: http://www.gregwoodhill.com/podcast/ Must-read book: Pornland - How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality by Gail Dines https://amzn.to/2NWC9zX One of Greg's best purchases ever: There is a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem by Wayne Dyer https://amzn.to/2tYkajm Connect with Greg:  Website: http://www.gregwoodhill.com/ Instagram for a Brave New Man Podcast: https://www.instagram.com/abravenewmanpod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregwoodhill [Tweet "Has porn hijacked your sexuality? Is it time to reclaim it? #mindbodymusings #podcast"] {RETREAT} The Feminine Surrender: A Weekend Haven for Restoring Trust, Love and Expression is approaching.

Episode 244: Greg Woodhill, MFT, CSAT is a licensed psychotherapist who has spent thousands of hours directly helping sex and porn addicts recover from their addictions. He strongly believes that true psychological and emotional growth can only occur in a safe environment, which he provides for his clients through long-term therapeutic work. He holds a Master's Degree from the University of Santa Monica, where he developed his personal therapeutic style of empathic listening, exploring early childhood trauma, and encouraging personal responsibility. He is a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, and spent 5 years working at the Center For Healthy Sex in Los Angeles under the mentorship of Alexandra Katehakis. He is passionate about the topic of addiction in all shapes and sizes, and he loves working with addicts to help them recover their passion and strength, so that they can create true intimacy in their lives. Show notes: To get a free 30-day trial of Audible + 1 free book, go HERE The Feminine Surrender Retreat - learn more HERE on how best friends are formed. How Greg got into this line of work and why he became interested in the profound effects that pornography has on men. The freedom that opens up for men once they start talking about this. Staggering pornography statistics. "It's hard to find a man that doesn't watch porn." Maddy's first experience watching porn. “I take no moral, ethical or religious perspective with porn. I don’t think it’s good or bad.” Porn is made for men by men in general. “I don’t think anyone needs to stop watching porn unless they believe it’s causing problems in their lives.” What it means when Greg says, "The porn is choosing them and they’re sexualizing their pain.” The upsides to porn — how it builds confidence, reduces shame and education, exciting, make you feel, soothing, sexy, fun. The dark side to porn and how it affects our unresolved emotional issues. Why you choose the type of porn that you do? “People gravitate to porn when they’re trying to work through unemotional material from the past.” A question Greg only asks during his therapy sessions: "If we could remove the sexual arousal from this experience, what experiences would you be experiencing?" "They’re porn watching to feel adequate." “Healing is the application of love to the places inside that hurt.” Why do they sexualize this pain instead of using drugs/alcohol for example? The false assumptions around pornography. Most of the time, the partner of a porn addict that doesn’t know that they’re with a porn addict. Erectile dysfunction and low libido are often accompanying effects with porn addicts. What do you do as a partner who is in a relationship with a porn addict? “The partner of a porn addict needs their own hope and healing.” Resources for pornography/sex-related addiction: sexandrelationshiphealing.com   pornaddicthubby.com iitap.com The important structure, boundaries, and guidelines you need as a partner of a porn addict. The importance of weekly check-in sobriety meetings. A reminder: you can set boundaries with love. A Brave New Man Podcast Must-read book: Pornland - How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality by Gail Dines One of Greg's best purchases ever: There is a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem by Wayne Dyer Connect with Greg:  Website Twitter

Renowned Sex therapist Dr. Alexandra Katehakis gives a great interview that would serve as a primer to any therapist about sex addiction.  Dr. Alexandra "Alex" Katehakis is a published, award-winning author, licensed psychotherapist, and is recognized as a leader in the field of Integrative sex therapy. Katehakis makes regular contributions to publications like Psychology Today and the Huffington Post, has been interviewed by Rolling Stone, Washington Post and the LA Times, has made several television appearances on programs like Inside Hollywood, Spike TV and CNN, and is frequently featured as a prominent expert panelist at sexuality conferences worldwide alongside the likes of Dan Siegel and Christopher Kennedy Lawford.She is the Clinical Director of Center For Healthy Sex, a treatment center based in Los Angeles. Katehakis holds licensure and certification with several different mental health organizations: Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT) with the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP), for which she is a clinical supervisor and member of the teaching faculty; Certified Sex Therapist (CST) with the American Association of Sex Educators Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) for which she is also a clinical supervisor; Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS), and Senior Fellow at the Meadows inpatient trauma and addiction rehabilitation center in Arizona.

Trying to decide what intervention may offer you the best bang for your buck can be tough. You may have wondered whether an intensive program can help and may feel confused about all your options. Carol the Coach will be interviewing Greg Woodhill, MFT, CSAT who will talking about the value of doing intensives. He works for The Center for Healthy Sex in Los Angeles, CA which offers customized Intensive Out-Patient Programs for males, females, and partners. The  intensive for male and female sex addicts is an eleven-day program which  deliberately limits to no more than four people. This insures that each person gets quality care and attention and leaves the program with sound recovery skills and a felt sense of the issues they need to continue working on when they return to your care. It  also offers a one-week program for partners  that customize to their needs. Greg explains, "The Task Centered Approach remains the cornerstone of our work but all of our clinicians take a psychobiological approach to treatment. We work with the clients regulatory capacities from the beginning of treatment, engaging them in very gentle trauma work. The client's regulatory capacities inform how far we can work into the affective system while keeping them on track with their recovery." Listen to this show if you want clarification as to whether you or your partner need this level of care.  

Today's guest is Alex Katehakis. Alex is a Clinical Sexologist with a doctorate in human sexuality. She's also the Clinical Director of the Center For Healthy Sex in Los Angeles, California. Alex has written several books - Sex Addiction As Affect Dysregulation, Erotic Intelligence, and Mirror Of Intimacy. Episode link>>>> www.theaddictedmind.com/87 ( http://www.theaddictedmind.com/87 ) In today's episode, she shares her wisdom and insight about recovery and we have a great conversation about the root causes of the addictive process. We focus on the early developmental trauma and the way that it affects the ability to regulate our affect, and how addictive substances or processes are used to escape from those feelings. Alex has always been fascinated by human sexuality. After practicing as a licensed marriage/family therapist for twenty-five years, she decided to dive deeper into human sexuality, rather than psychology. In addition to human sexuality, Alex has also been studying with Dr. Allan Schore for the past twelve years, looking specifically at developmental neuroscience and how the early formation of the infant impacts on the developing brain, nervous system, and mind. Talking about affect is referring to emotions. These emotions live deep within the body, and they only come forward when they are registered by the brain as feelings. When a person is dysregulated and stressed out, their affect becomes dysregulated. When a child feels threatened, perhaps from an alcoholic, raging, shut down, or mean parent, their affect becomes dysregulated and they will always find themselves looking for something to make them feel better. In their waking life, a dysregulated person will feel anxious, depressed, dead internally, or dull. There's a general lack of feeling vitality in the body. Dysregulated people say they don't feel joy states, or they are super anxious, so they have to drink to make the anxiety go away. They may use sex to make themselves feel powerful or good about themselves. Anything that we're doing outside of ourselves to make ourselves feel 'right internally' speaks to affect dysregulation. Someone who is securely attached, and has a good heart-rate variability in general, doesn't have to reach for anything to change their internal state or mood. Love addicts, and some sex addicts, learned very early on that they had to get their needs met by themselves, so they used fantasy, which is a form of mild to moderate dissociation. This makes it difficult for them to connect to another person, as an adult, and to have intimacy or closeness. People often don't know this about themselves until their lives become unmanageable. As humans, we are highly adaptable creatures, so we can adapt to just about anything, even something dysfunctional that feels better than the problem we're living in. This can create patterns that are difficult to change. Change is possible, however, it takes time. Willpower is difficult for people experiencing a lot of stress. It's not the best way to change long-standing patterns that people have developed over time. Long-term psychotherapy can help people feel into their bodies, and it allows them to feel the things they could not feel, as a child. The therapist's nervous system can soothe and regulate the nervous system of the patient in the same way as it would with a healthy mother and a child. This is known as a co-regulatory process. With a healthy person, their brain circuits are all online and firing. With someone who has been abused, however, their circuits are not coupled. They are down. This creates a deadness at their core. It requires the care of other people to get their circuits to come back up. Twelve-step programs help people change because they are inclusive and non-judgmental. As humans, we all need other people to survive. In her book, Sex Addiction As Affect Dysregulation, Alex looks at the underlying mechanism that drives problematic behavior. It helps people to see sex addiction in a new way, and it offers hope for the people who are struggling with it. Sex addiction is being recognized more and more by the scientific community as a bone fide problem. It was first recognized in about 1978, although people were talking about it as an affliction as early as in the 1800s. In 2011, the American Society of Addiction Medicine made a public policy statement, in which they included sex as an addiction. In 2018, a proposed diagnosis of compulsive sexual behavior disorder was established for the international coding book, the ICD. Willpower can be used to show up to people who care, and in that way, it can help to heal from sex addiction. Remember, it's never too late to take a step in the direction of health! *Links and resources:* To find out more, go to www.thecenterforhealthysex.com ( http://www.thecenterforhealthysex.com/ ) Alex also has a Youtube channel with hundreds of videos from sex-experts around the world. Alex's books: Sex Addiction As Affect Dysregulation ( https://amzn.to/39BV7VY ) Erotic Intelligence ( https://amzn.to/2SMERec ) Mirror Of Intimacy ( https://amzn.to/2OWgidu )