Why did Google Remove Covenant Eyes?
Maybe you’ve noticed that Google removed the popular “accountability” apps Covenant Eyes and Accountable2You from its Play store last week.
sexual shame
Love, Sex & Eating the Bones (2003) Review
I remember, vaguely, the first time I saw Love, Sex & Eating the Bones. I may have been twelve or fourteen years old at the time.
Book Review: Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts
I read Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts because we sometimes have individuals referred to us who have intrusive sexual thoughts.
Sex, God & The Conservative Church: Book Review
I was asked to teach the graduate human sexuality course last fall at the Moravian Theological Seminary. As it had been years since I taught, I was on the hunt for new books for the course. Because this course was being taught at a seminary, we had to at least touch on religion and sex. […]
Pornography Problem: Erotic Conflict or Addiction?
How do we, as therapists, determine whether a pornography problem is erotic conflict or an addiction? A discussion on the nuances.
Caught your kid looking at porn? How we shame children
Anyone who has heard me lecture or has been a client of my practice knows how concerned I am about how our culture shames sex and sexuality. The sex addicts I work with have such an enormous sense of shame about their addiction. Their partners have their own sense of shame about being in a […]
Sex Addiction and Shame
Last night one of my long term recovery groups began the first week of Brene Brown’s Connections Curriculum; a 23-minute video of Brene discussing Shame, Empathy, and Vulnerability. We have used her Shame Resilience workin our program for years. Yet, I never cease to be amazed at the reactions to the initial video.
