Ending compulsive sexual behavior is just the beginning. Drawing on personal and professional experience, psychotherapist Andrew Susskind examines issues such as shame, grief, narcissism, and co-dependency to demonstrate how people use out-of-control sexual behavior to cope with broken-heartedness. He offers strategies to cultivate sustainable sexual sobriety, sharing his own healing narrative, as well as those of others who’ve chosen to bear their truths. No one is ever too hurt or isolated to achieve reliable relationships and emotional intimacy. This is a guidebook for every person seeking long-term healing from sex addiction.
Recovery from addiction is not a cookie-cutter process. Every addict experiences addiction differently, and every addict has a unique path of recovery. This workbook will complement your existing approaches to recovery whether they are 12-step programs, treatment centers, psychotherapy, and/or coaching.
Purposeful recovery is a hybrid term to describe another dimension of addiction recovery which isn’t always emphasized in the traditional places where one receives support. By using a strengths-based approach derived from both coaching and positive psychology, you ll have the opportunity to revitalize dormant aspects of yourself. As a result, the possibilities of adding deeper meaning and clearer direction to your recovery will expand and become more and more evident to you.
The exercises in this book will help you stretch beyond your comfort zone as you move into the next chapter of recovery. Thinking bigger than ever before will reveal limitless possibilities as you create purpose and direction.
Podcasts
It’s Not About The Sex is a podcast based on the book by the same name. Psychotherapist Andrew Susskind examines issues such as shame, grief, narcissism, and codependency to demonstrate how people use out-of-control sexual behavior to cope with broken heartedness. Each podcast he interviews experts who share fresh perspectives and strategies for other clinicians as well as those in recovery from problematic sexual behaviors.
Ep. 3 Andrew Susskind Conversation
Ep. 5 Dr. Patti Britton – Sex Coaching
Ep. 7 EMDR Therapy with Claudia Lewis, LMFT
Ep. 8 A Discussion About Shame
Ep. 9 There are Many Paths to Recovery
Ep. 10 Narcissism and Sex Addiction
Ep. 11 Nancy Sobel – Group Therapy
Ep. 13 Regulating the Nervous System
Ep. 14 Marty Simpson – Formal Disclosure
Ep. 15 Andrew Susskind – Cultivating Contentment
Ep. 16 Carol Jeurgensen Sheets – Couples Healing
Ep. 17 Andrew Susskind and Sue Merlino – Sexual Healing
Guest Appearances
Sex, Love and Addiction” with Robert Weiss, MSW, PhD