Sexual addiction and pornography addiction can destroy a relationship and drives feelings of loneliness, shame, and guilt. Forty million adults in the united states admit to viewing pornography regularly, while 10% acknowledge that they cannot stop. You might be hiding your compulsive sexual behavior from your partner, or they have just discovered your addiction.
What is Sexual Compulsive Behavior?
At Richer Life Recovery, we view any compulsive behavior from substances such as alcohol, sugar, drugs, to process behaviors such as gambling, pornography, shopping are all ways to numb out. When you enter into problematic behavior, your brains get a rush of feel-good chemicals, and you start to crave these feeling over and over again. With time we need to have more and more of a substance to have the same good feeling.
Sexual addiction, pornography addiction, can be used to numb out. Maybe you start thinking about your sexual behavior, and you cannot stop thinking about it until you act out on that behavior. Maybe you spend hours a day disconnected from your relationship looking for a sexual connection. Often pornography addiction or sexual addiction starts as a way for you to escape emotional problems in your life. It might feel like you cannot just stop your sexual behavior. That is because your brain has developed pathways of dealing with emotions through numbing out.
When using sex as a way to numb out you can lose the joy in the act, and start to feel loneliness, shame, and guilt. We help our student stop unwanted sexual behavior and learn to develop healthy sexual behavior. Our students can learn to understand what drives their unwanted sexual behavior and stop that behavior!
Signs and Symptoms of Pornography Addiction
- Obsessing with pornography. It feels like you can’t stop, viewing it multiple times a day, viewing it in the bathroom, in public, while driving, or at work.
- You spend more time watching pornography then you do in other enjoyable actives
- Spend less time with others
- You avoid spending time attending to personal responsibilities
- Feel shame and guilt after viewing pornography
- Spending more money than you should on pornography
- Have cravings to view more pornography, feeling trigger throughout the day
- You lost time spending hours viewing pornography or trying to sneak it in as often as you can
- Losing interest in sex
- You have injured yourself by masturbating
Porn Addiction Assessment
This is a 25 question pornography addiction assessment. This quiz is for anyone who is questioning if they have a problem with pornography, or your partner thinks that you have a problem.
**Your responses are kept confidential***
Signs and Symptoms of Sexual Addiction
Ways of Sexually Acting Out
- Pornography Overuse – viewing multiple times away, spending hours at a time
- Prostitution – seeing escorts, massage parlors
- Chronic Masturbation – With or without viewing pornography, with the possibility of injury Exhibitionism or Voyeurism
- Having multiple affairs
- Risk-taking sexual behaviors – multiple partners, unprotected sex
- Spending more money and time then you would like in the pursuit of sex
- Sending sexual images via text or sexting to another outside of your relationship
Effect of Sex Addiction
- Experiencing a decline in a personal relationship, social and family engagement
- Lower concentration and productive at work
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexually transmitted infections (STI’s)
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Substance misuse or abuse
Sexual Addiction Assessment
This is a 30 question sexual addiction assessment. This quiz is for anyone who is questioning if they have a problem with compulsive sexual behavior, or your partner thinks that you have a problem.
**Your responses are kept confidential***
Sexual Addiction & Pornography Addiction Online Recovery Program
Our psycho-education online course provides the fundamental steps for our student to take control of their out of control sexual behaviors. This 12-course program is built on 3 pillars of growth for our students. These pillars guide each course in the program and provide the knowledge, guidance, and support for long term recovery. The first pillar focus on understanding the addictive nature of sex addiction and porn addiction, and how these addictions affect the brain. You will learn how to re-set you brian from the cravings of these sexually compulsive behaviors. The second pillar is learning to focused on learning about your emotional drivers, answering the question of why you do what you do, what lead to you acting out in this sexual way. The last pillar of our program is focused on repairing and strengthening all types of relationships in your life.
Program Courses
In this course, you will learn how to build the foundation for long term recovery from Sexual Addiction & Pornography Addiction. You will learn about withdraw symptoms, the trauma the addiction creates in your relationship, what gets in the way of stopping your addiction. Along with having actionable tools to prevent you from compulsive sexual behavior.
Understanding Addiction
In this course, you will learn about the cycle of addiction, how your additive brain affects you. Along with uncomfortable emotions that your sex addiction or porn addiction is numbing. You will learn to understand your addictive self and learn about why its so hard to make long-lasting change. BUT then start to create long-term change.
Denial and Repression
You will learn how to understand what is denial and repression and learn how to have reality checks around your sexually compulsive behavior. Learning about your own cognitive distortions, how you self-sabotage, and why your denial exists in your life. Along with learning how to rebuild trust in yourself, your recovery, and your relationships.
Healthy Living & Planning a for Relapse Prevention
In this course, you will be given the tools to develop a long term relapse prevention plan. You will understand why you are choosing recovery, and how to safe guard yourself to avoid sexual acting out. Along with how to build a happy, healthy life with actives that drive connection, joy, and peace.
Shame, Guilt, & Other Emotions
You will explore many different aspects of what emotions are and how they affect you and impact your sexually compulsive behavior. You will learn how to understand the shame and guilt that comes from your addiction and how to heal this toxic shame.
Family Influences on your Relationship & Addiction
In this course, you will look back on how you grew up and how you experiences created themes in your life that keep repeating. How your past relationship has also impacted these themes in your life. Once you understand your themes, you will see how they influence your relationship and addiction. Then learn how to create new themes in your life.
Building Trust & Empathy
Repairing your relationships and friends is an essential part of recovery. You will learn how to rebuild trust. Along with learning how to become more empathic, by learning what empathy truly is and how to develop behaviors that drive compassion.
Your Relationship Cycle
In this course, you will learn what it takes to break unhealthy patterns of communication, and disconnection that exits in all relationships. You will determine what your relationship cycle is, and will learn new ways to connect emotionally to your partner.
Developing Deep Connection & Meaning
In this course, you will look deep into yourself and your life finding a new way to content to your partner, family, friends, and community. This course challenges you to live a life that is thoughtful and meaningful so that you no longer want to escape through numbing. You will discover who you have always wanted to be and how to live that life.
Masculinity, Fantasy, & Objectification
In this course, you will look deep into your own sexuality and what lead to your compulsive sexual behavior. You will understand your fantasies and develop boundaries around them. Along with looking at cultural concepts of masculinity and objectification that impact your porn addiction or sex addiction.
Building Healthy Sexuality
We want all of our students to have happy, healthy sex lives. This course provides the guides to developing your own healthy sexuality. From your expeditions of sex, intimacy, and romance.
Building A Relationship That Last
Our last course combines aspects of the entire recovery program. You will have already been repairing your relationship throughout the program, but this course gives you the skills to build a relationship that gets better with time. You will know what it takes to construct a relationship that will last.
Lasting Recovery
Students who complete all of our courses in our program will find themselves reflection and learning how to connect in new ways. You will develop a deeper understanding of yourself and your addictive sexual behaviors. This coursework is designed for students to be self-paced in their own recovery work. Once a student complete this work online they will find themselves living a lifestyle of recovery, from having a healthier relationship with themselves to others. You will learn how to develop and maintain a healthy sex life.
Sexual Addiction Treatment & Pornography Addiction Treatment
Our students want to change or limit their sexually numbing behavior. This program you learn what your triggers are, how to develop new daily active, understanding your own emotional cycle, and learning to connect in more personally meaningful ways. Our students discover personal meaning in their own lives and learn how to connect in meaningful ways to friends, family, and intimate partners.
What Keeps You Away From Sexual Addiction Treatment Or Pornography Addiction Treatment?
I don’t think all the course are right for me in my recovery, do I need to complete all of them?
Learning to listen to yourself in recovery is an important step. We have designed our recovery program to be interconnected, and each course is builds on the information you learned in a different course. The online program is designed for you to complete all course; however, you have the choice to buy each course individually.
When you purchase the Sexual Addiction or Pornography Addiction Online Program together, there are discounts. We recommend that you just start our first course First Step Into Recovery. This course will introduce each other courses and why they are so crucial to long term recovery.
Recovery is just too expensive!
In our program, we talk a lot about building a lifestyle of recovery. Recovery is a mindset that is focusing on commit to doing something different, this means re-prioritized how you think about recovery and healing work. When you commit finically to a recovery process, you are investing in making long-term changes.
Recovery from sexual addiction and pornography addiction is a long-term process. Yet when you can stick with recovery, you will find that doing recover work was an investment in yourself, and in your relationship leading to a Richer Life. You can check out our blog post on the real cost of porn addiction that shows our online course cost nothing compared to the actual cost of porn addiction.
Sex addiction and porn addiction are not a real thing so there is no need for recovery?
You can google that there is no such thing as sexual addiction or pornography addiction, and you will find many websites or articles that state that is the case. You will also see a wide array of sites and articles that state it is an addiction. Human sexuality is complicated.
Yet if your problematic sexual behaviors, from looking at porn, sexting, to mutual sexual partners could be harming you. Putting you at risk for sexual transited inflections, dating your relationship with your partner and family, and creating a secret life that you keep from most people. The question isn’t if sex addiction is real or not the question is does your problem sexual behavior creating ha unhealthy lifestyle for you. If you are having adverse effects form unhealthy sexual behavior then it doesn’t matter if we call it an addiction, numbing or problematic it is time to make a change.
Recovery from Sexual Addiction or Pornography Addiction is just too hard.
Our program is designed for you to have a healthy sex life. We are very sex-positive and want all people to have a healthy fulfilled sex life that is focused on meeting their biological desires and emotional needs. Stopping porn use, stopping acting out sexual is a difficult journey, yet once you start on this journey, you will find healthy sexuality.
Those who we have helped with our program, have found a more meaningful healthy sex life. We have been told how they find more enjoyment and meaning in sex with their partner once they have left the numbing sexual behavior behind. Yes, we know how hard stopping looking at porn can be, we know how hard it is to stop acting out sexually. Yet we know that once you find a lifestyle of recovery, you will find happiness and joy in sex you might have never experienced before.
Start Recovery From Sexual Addiction and Pornography Addiction Today
Today is the day to start your journey into recovery from pornography addiction or sexual addiction. You can start our first course First Step Into Recovery for free. This psycho-education program will help you in all aspect of recovery. This online program helps porn addicts and sex addicts stop unwanted sexual behavior.
Sing up for our entire program for a discount here!
I’m not ready to start the whole program, but I am ready to start the free course First Step Into Recovery.
Please contact us with any questions that you might have. If you are not ready to start our online recovery program, we have a 10 email series recovery jump start that you start right now. You will learn how to spring into recovery and will offer help and guidance in learning more about the recovery process.