Help Them Heal-with Carol the Coach

Carol the Coach interviews therapist/owner Dorit Reichental who is opening Kintsugi Center for Healing which is a retreat center in Montecito, a suburb of California. Kintsugi Center for Healing is a place for people impacted by sexual addiction, betrayal trauma, to come to for emotional, psychological, and spiritual healing. If you are looking for a special place to do your work as a couple ... y...

Carol the Coach interviews Kristen A. Jenson author of Good Pictures Bad Pictures and founder of ProtectYoungMinds.org. She felt the need to help parents educate school age children about seeing ography on their tablets. She offers 5 safety rules which help children stay safe from sexting and sextortion. Her new book Bood Pictures Bad Pictures, Jr .is a must for any parent but especially if you ar...

There is often times a dark side that feeds sexual addiction. Find out more about how to combat or surrender to it and then what to do next.

Tonight, Carol the Coach interviews a woman who wants to develop trust but is so overcome by hurt that she fears  giving the relationship a fair chance. Listen to the advice that Carol gives to partners of sex addicts who want to heal but are not sure how!

Carol the Coach interviews Brannon Patrick who believes that recovery for both the addict and the betrayed is all about connection. Real recovery happens when someone gets reconnected again.  Connection to God, Self, and Others is what heals addiction and betrayal trauma.  Addiction undermines connection and causes attachment problems. He will outline the specific indicators of healthy connection...

Carol will be interviewing Anna Osborn, LMFT who works with couples and individuals healing from trauma to their relationship including infidelity, betrayal and loss. Listen to the conversation that leads to healing and how does a couple develop a new relationship that promotes trust and honesty.

Carol the Coach interviews "Gaslighting Expert"  Ross Rosenberg about this phenomena that frequently occurs in the relationship with the sex addict and his/her spouse. Gaslighting is a complex and well-thought out brainwashing strategy utilized by highly manipulative narcissists. Gaslighters control victims by systematically manipulating them into identifying with and feeling no control over an im...

Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Anne Blythe who is the producer and host of the Betrayal Trauma Recovery podcast and founder of Betrayal Trauma Recovery, a nonprofit, online coaching practice for women. All of the coaches at Betrayal Trauma Recovery are trained by The Association of Partners of Sex Addicts Trauma Specialists (APSATS for short). After years of attempting to help her husband re...

Carol the Coach interviews Jessica Levith who treats women,men and couples sturggling with problematic sexual behaviors. She often sees sexualized anger which is the fusion of anger and eroticism based on an arousal template laid down early in life. There has been little written about sexualized anger, using a non-forensic lens. But for those struggling with insecure attachments, the importance of...

Carol the Coach interviews Shannon Colleary who is a compassionate recovery coach and author who teaches women how to find real love by attending 12 step recovery meetings and using tools from her Love School to promote healing, self love and healthy interdependent relationships. If you are a partner of a sex addict and you want more from your relationship or you want to find healthy love ... this...

It can be confusing to ascertain if you have features of Love Addiction or Love Avoidance.  This show highlights how love addiction and love avoidance is different from sexual addiction. Learn about how childhood traumas feed into this disorder

Life After Lust is unlike any recovery book available today. It guides the reader into intentional personal growth but also frames the pursuit of a meaningful life as a byproduct of succerssful recovery. Carol the Coach interviews Forest Benedict author of Life After Lust: Stories and Strategies for Sex and ography Addiction Recovery. He has a 52 week plan that helps navigate addicts into healthy...

You can’t be a sex addict, you’re a woman.” “Women don’t recover from sex addiction.” “You’re not welcome at this 12-step fellowship meeting because you’re a woman.” These were all things that were said to interviewee as she started to search for help for her sex addiction. Women need help and support in sex addiction recovery.  She started Worth Recovery and the Worth Recovery podcast as a suppor...

One of the greatest challenges that couples in recovery face is navigating the journey out of the diseased world of sexual addiction and into the healthy and robust life of relational wellness. The trauma of discovery is a gamechanger.  The betrayed (partner) often suffers with PTSD primary to the discovery – with all of the accompanying distressing symptoms including a pervasive sense of unsafety...

Carol the Coach interviews Christina Bell who has made it her mission to work with couples whose lives have been ravaged by sexual addiction. She has worked with a lot of couples with sex addiction and has developed  a roadmap to help them through the first year. Tonight's show will teach couples what they need to do to work through the hard work that goes into recovering from  the collateral dama...

Shame is the most painful of all emotions. People will go to almost any length to avoid feeling it. The problem with addiction as a way to avoid shame is that once the addictive behavior ends, the shame comes back many fold. And it takes stronger and stronger doses of the addiction to move into good feelings again. Working with shame involves helping the person transform toxic shame that leads to...

As a resource for partners, PCS offers a  6-day intensive outpatient program in Scottsdale AZ.  They run their program 52 weeks/year. Partners of sexual addicts are a regular part of  the program and an area of particular focus.   Our work at PCS is heavily trauma focused and takes into account co-occurring psychological and medical disorders . The IOP at PCS was the first intensive outpatient pro...

Partners of sex addicts experience a barrage of painful emotions and reactions after discovering their significant other's acting out behaviors. Typically, these symptoms are consistent with a trauma reaction or even post-traumatic stress disorder. Sometimes they are so severe that they interfere with a partner's ability to function in live and mau require treatment from a physician. Carol the Coa...

Carol the Coach will be interviewing Milton Magness and Marsha Means who will talking about their new book, Real Hope, True Freedom: Understanding and Coping With Sex Addiction. This book is filled with a conslidation of over 4,000 questions submitted to people who needed to understand the truth on multiple topics related to sexual addicion. This book helps readers understand the reality of sex ad...

Carol the Coach will be interviewing Sonja J Rudie who is a certified EMDR Therapist . She is an expert at treating people who have experienced trauma in their childhoods and in the coupleship as a result of the "addiction discovery". Listen as she describes how EMDR can help you!

Anger is one of the more difficult emotions to experience productively. Many sex addicts deal with trauma, loss and anger in their family of origin and that follows them in their present day life. And although anger is a natural reaction to these experiences, children are not taught how to manage it so that it can motivate change in a positive way. Listen as Jon Taylor talks about the tools he has...

Carol the Coach will be interviewing Kristin Cary who is a CPSAS and is currently being trained by APSATS. She realizes that the church, therapists and family or friends can be well meaning but hurtful when it comes to partner trauma. She will talk about what churches can do to be safe places for women to talk about partner betrayal and she will talk about a program that she has developed in her c...

Anger is natural, normal and necessary emotion but expressing it can be destructive and damaging to your self and others. Listen as Carol the Coach helps you to find other ways of using this helpful emotion to change and mobilize your life in a different way. Learn how to be friends with your anger.

Rob Weise just released a new book this week- specific to helping men regain intimate relationship trust after betraying a loving female partner or wife. It is called: Out of the Doghouse: A Step by Step Relationship Saving Guide for Men Caught Cheating and can be found here both in ebook and hard copy here The metaphor of having ‘harmed your home” and thus being “Sent to ‘the Doghouse” is used th...