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Can Addicts Keep New Years Resolutions?: The Difference Between Habit and Addiction

What is the difference between a habit and an addiction? If they are different, what do I do about an addiction and how do I treat it differently than a habit?

Surviving the Holidays When You Love an Addict: 10 Strategies and Tips

The holidays are already stressful enough, but when you are in a relationship with an addict, the stress level increases significantly. Read this article and watch our video about tips and strategies for taking care of yourself this holiday season.

10 Tips and Strategies for Surviving the Holidays as a Newly Recovering Addict

Protect your new recovery by practicing the 10 strategies listed in this article. The holidays can be very stressful, so be prepared. If you need help, contact us and we will support you as you navigate stressful events in your recovery.

10 Types of Boundary Violations with Betrayed Partners and Addicts

There are some common ways that boundary violations occur in relationships where addiction, including porn or sex addiction is happening. This video and blog post will review 10 ways violations can occur.

10 Ways Porn or Sex Addiction Affect Families and Children*

When a parent struggles with porn addiction or sex addiction, this can have a negative impact on children and the family as a whole. Betrayed partners and the addicted can seek help. Recovery is real! Contact us today.

3 Signs that You or a Loved One May Be Addicted to Porn or Sex

Has your porn use or sexual behavior escalated into an addiction? Watch this video to learn the 3 main criteria necessary for porn or sexual behavior to be considered an addiction.

Video Series: The B.A.S.I.C. 5 of Boundaries for Partners of Sex and Porn Addicts

In a series of 8 videos, you'll learn the BASIC principles of health boundaries and the 5 steps to discovering and communicating your own boundaries. Partners of sex or porn addicts often report struggles with establishing boundaries.

5 Steps to Discovering and Communicating Healthy Boundaries: Part 3 of Healthy Boundaries and How to Have Them

Discover how to own your boundaries with these 5 easy (but not simple) steps.

The B.A.S.I.C.s of Boundaries: Part 2 of Healthy Boundaries and How to Have Them

What are the underlying principles of healthy boundaries? This post will explore the B.A.S.I.C.s and give examples of these principles at work.

Internal and External Boundaries: Part 1 on Healthy Boundaries and How to Have Them

Part 1 of our Healthy Boundaries series will focus on the difference between external and internal boundaries Examples will be given for each.

Tips for Becoming a Home School Parent Overnight

Tips for creating routines with your children during coronavirus health event.

Protect Your Addiction or Mental Health Recovery During the Coronavirus Pandemic: 7 Tips and Ideas

Plan for your recovery during COVID-19. Seven great tips for taking care of yourself and protecting your addiction or mental health recovery.

12 Step Programs and Mutual Support Groups

A List of 12 Step and Other Mutual Help Programs and Their Websites

TYPES OF TREATMENT & WHO COULD BENEFIT

When it comes to getting treatment for an addiction, a painful relationship, old wounds and traumas, and other dysfunctional behaviors, the choices can be confusing and overwhelming. We recommend meeting with a qualified professional to get...

HOW PORN USE CAN LEAD TO SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS

Occasional use of pornography is unlikely to create negative consequences for the viewer. When pornography and masturbation are used frequently and regularly, many viewers find they experience negative physical, sexual, and sometimes emotional and...

ONE RECOVERING ADDICT’S JOURNEY TO HOPE

There have been times in my life where I have complained of a bad week. I never imagined I would one day admit to having survived 208 self-inflicted bad weeks in a row.It took 1 hit, 10 seconds, for me to become an addict...

CHOOSING TO STAY

Fresh Air, hosted by Terry Gross, produced an interview between Gross and Greta Gerwig (Fresh Air, November 16th, 2017). Gerwig’s newly directed movie, Lady Bird (2017), was the reason for the interview, but the “Me Too” movement seemed...

RECOVERY PROGRAMS OFFERED BY TARC FOR SEX AND PORN ADDICTS IN CHATTANOOGA

Article Excerpt from TheChattanoogan.com - "Whether a person comes to us alone or with a mate, TARC therapists are here to help. No person or couple... has to struggle alone. Participation in Trauma and Addiction Recovery Center programs is fully...

3 PRIMARY SYMPTOMS OF SEX AND PORN ADDICTION

Let’s face it, sex is a loaded concept in our culture. What's considered acceptable sexual behavior runs in extremes: on one end of the continuum are those who pretend sex doesn’t exist and only acknowledge it in the context of a marriage bed...

TRAUMA: A BRIEF OVERVIEW

The word “trauma” is often used in our culture, yet it can be difficult to know exactly what it means. Generally speaking, a past adverse experience is considered traumatic if it is physically or psychologically overwhelming and causes one to act...

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