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CONFRONTING YOUR SEXUAL ADDICTIONSex addiction is not something you choose. A sex addict uses sexual behaviors to deal with feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness, or worthlessness. Yet sex addiction leads to powerlessness over the compulsive behavior - and your life spins out of control. Are you a sex addict? Take this quick quiz Though the cause of sexual addiction can differ from person to person, many sexual addicts come from families where their emotional needs were not met. There may have been emotional and physical neglect, violence, sexual abuse, or alcohol or drug addiction. For whatever reason, your parents may have failed to provide you with good experiences in the Milestones of Sexual Development. You didn't have kind and consistent touch or emotional support when you were young. You learned not to trust and not to become vulnerable and attached to other people. Now, as an adult, deep down you don't feel loved. You don't trust others. Sex Smart is an excellent companion to the leading books on understanding sexual addiction. SexSmart will help you map your past so that you understand what happened to you in detail: Why did you begin to use sex to calm and soothe yourself? Why did it happen so early in life? Why is emotional intimacy so scary? Dealing with your addiction is like going on a journey. An important part of healing is going back into the past and looking--frame-by-frame, as if you are watching a movie--at what happened to you when you were younger. You need to look with new eyes, eyes that understand the concept of sexual addiction. Using the exercises at the end of each chapter, you will be able
to allow yourself to feel the feelings that were too dangerous to
feel before. SexSmart will give you a detailed
roadmap of how your unexplored feelings about your past created
your pattern of sexual addiction, and SexSmart's
exercises and journaling will give you a recipe for how to overcome
it. You will read the stories of other sex addicts, men and women like you who have already taken the journey to sexual recovery using the wisdom contained in SexSmart.
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