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What Does Intimacy Anorexia Have to Do with Sex Addiction and Why Should Partners of Sex Addicts Care?

  Intimacy anorexia is an extreme form of love avoidance in which emotional, spiritual, and/or sexual intimacy is actively withheld from the primary relationship partner. So what does that have… Read more

Partners of Sex Addicts: Sex Addiction Induced Trauma

I recently came across an article in The National Psychologist by Dr. Omar Minwalla. Dr. Minwalla is a psychologist, clinical sexologist and clinical director of The Institute for Sexual Health… Read more

Sex Addiction Recovery: Dealing with Your Wife When She Is Emotionally Triggered

Early recovery from sex addiction is a tumultuous time, your recovery foothold is shaky at best. During this period your partner is eaasily emotionally triggered. So how do you maintain… Read more

Texas First Intimacy Anorexia Recovery Group

Texas’ first therapeutic men’s intimacy anorexia recovery group began in January 2017 in McKinney. Although the Dallas-Ft. Worth and surrounding areas have a strong therapeutic, and 12 Step recovery community… Read more

Partners of Sex Addicts: Rebuilding Trust

  The recovering sex addicts I counsel often ask what their partners need to rebuild trust in the wake of sexual betrayal. My initial answer is pretty obvious: TRUTH, in combination… Read more

The Serenity Room: Embrace the Struggle

Embracing the Struggle: The Chrysalis Along a dusty road in India there sat a beggar who sold cocoons. A young boy watched him day after day, and the beggar finally… Read more

The Serenity Room: Waiting

How do they do it? The ones washed ashore. Who in a broken pile put themselves together? Who after the hurricane sort the rubble for the nails that still can… Read more

The Serenity Room: The Freedom of Recovery

The New Colossus Emma Lazarus 1883 Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,With conquering limbs astride from land to land;Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall standA mighty woman… Read more

The Serenity Room: An Addict Afraid

  I’m afraid of the life unlivedThe child inside me who hollers at echoesAnd sits cross-legged, to wait. My time gets shortAnd I want to rest, to listen,But the child… Read more

Sex Addiction Recovery: What Can Thor Teach Us About Sex Addiction?

McKinney Counseling & Recovery Thor has returned to the movies with the recent release of Thor: Love and Thunder. It has been three years since we last saw our hero… Read more