Gisele Pelicot: A Hymn to Life
A story of survival, courage, and reclaiming shame in *A Hymn to Life* by Gisele Pelicot offers a powerful message for survivors and partners alike.
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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.
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.
Book Review: Sex, God, and the Conservative Church
Last fall I taught a graduate human sexuality course at a seminary school. I hunted for new books and Sex, God, and the Conservative Church fit nicely.
We Are Failing Male Sexual Abuse Survivors
I specialize in working with sexual addiction and problematic sexual behavior. Most of my clients are men. Working with male addicts for over a dozen years has taught me, in person, that many more boys are sexually abused than the numbers tell us. These boys do not tell anyone and do not seek help. These […]
What’s My Stuff? How to talk to your child about sex when you are the partner of a sex addict
In my book, The New Age of Sex Education: How to Talk to your Teen about Cybersex and Pornography in the Digital Age, I write about the baggage that can interfere with a parent talking to their child about sex, pornography, masturbation or any other sexual topic. This topic recently came up in one of […]
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.
