How to Tell Your Wife About Your Porn or Sex Addiction Without Making It Worse
Thinking about confessing to your wife? A Memphis CSAT explains why how you tell her matters as much as what you tell her, and how a guided disclosure protects you both.
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Sex, Porn, and Love Addiction in Women: Why It Looks Different and Why You're Not the Only One
Women struggle with compulsive sexual behavior and love addiction too, and it often looks different. Karen Brownd, a Memphis CSAT, explains the signs and what individual therapy involves.
Are the 12-steps turning frum Yidden away from Yiddishkeit?
I came across a graph many years ago which took each of the 12 steps and showed where both the Rambam and Rabeinu Yona discussed them in the Laws of Teshuva. The second and third steps specifically describe the relationship we have with Hashem. Believe...
How Childhood trauma can lead to Love Addiction
You've probably met someone — maybe you've been someone — who falls hard, fast, and completely. Not just in love. Obsessively. The kind of attachment where a single unanswered text becomes a verdict on your worth, where being alone feels genuinely unbearable, where intensity gets...
How Emotional Neglect in Childhood Can Lead to Addiction
Most people who end up in my office with an addiction can't point to one terrible thing that happened to them. When I ask about childhood, the answer is usually some version of "It was fine. Nobody hit me. We had what we needed." And...
How Technology and Digital Escapism Reinforces Sex Addiction
Screens sit in every pocket and on every desk. People scroll to relax and escape daily pressure. For this reason, many users search for instant pleasure online. Sexual content waits only one click away. Curiosity grows into a habit fast. Desire pushes people to return...