Help Them Heal-with Carol the Coach

Today, Carol the Coach is interviewing Laney Knowlton who has worked in the field of sex addiction for over a decade years. She has  developed a model for couples called Coupled Recovery. It uses similarities between the trauma cycle and the addiction cycle to create a common language for addicts and partners, creating a foundation for connection throughout recovery, which starts with emotional sa...

This is a repplay where Carol talks about the criteria for sex addiction

Carol the Coach is going to be interviewing Shane Adamson who will be discussing understanding and healing attachment wounds of loss, betrayal and abandonment and neglect.  He has a desire to start a podcast that will feature complex problems and be inspired by love stories.  As a professional counselor over 25 years, Shane observes what helps and what hurts individuals, marriages and families.  S...

Today, Carol the Coach will be interviewing Gary and Donna who support RCA a 12 Step Group for Couples in recovery. Find out how you can access this incredible 12 Step format for support!

Carol the Coach will be interviewing Michele Saffier who will be speaking about her work with partners struggling with betrayal trauma.  Discovery forces partners into an existential crisis of self. The choice they are faced with has very little to do with external decisions about their life– divorce, reconciliation, therapy, polygraphs and disclosure, why the betrayer did what they did, etc. Ther...

Money issues and financial distress is all a part of the sexual addiction cycle. Listen as renowned "sex addiction's expert" Debra Kaplan talks about her new audio book which will help to unravel the damage that sexual addiction has contributed towards in the relationship. Debra Kaplan, who wrote For Love and Money: Exploring Sexual and Financial Betrayal in Relationships  turns a provocative, lit...

Today, Carol the Coach interviews Gary Owens who is the male spouse of a female sex addict. He has written a book titled The Betrayed Husband’s Survival Guide as a way to tell his story and to help other men who find themselves in the battle of their lives. Being the partner of an addict is difficult, especially in the early days of recovery. And being a man whose wife betrayed him can be a blow t...

Sex addiction is a common occurance in the military, Lauren Rich explains, "ography is a huge problem. Excluding military sexual assault in this discussion ography and infidelity are an infinite battle. You have to remember that we’re talking majority men, minority women and that they are young, testosterone filled males who look to ography as a way to escape, feel good, and meet sexual needs. The...

It is so important to recognize how the proper sleep can help sex addicts with thier urges, cravings and triggers. And for the partner, the proper sllep insures more stress management including less triggers and more emotional regulation. Listen as sleep specialist Laura Childers reminds us how important sleep really in the management of trauma and good mental health.

Betrayal Trauma can feel different for male partners Their greatest wounding is to believe that nothing that they experienced with their significant other was real. They experience an out-of-the-blue grief response to the sudden loss of what they thought was their life and they have nowhere to turn because that there are very few resources for male partners. Our guest today, Sibylle Georgianna has...

Today, Carol the Coach will be interviewing Latina Griffin, LCSW, CCTP, CCPS about the benefits of working collaboratively with  professionals who are skilled at understanding sex addiction. She encourages clients to find clinics who can offer partner sensitive services and also have professionals who who can provide the needed umbrella of services to assist sex addicts in their healing and restor...

We have really seen the trials and tribulations that first responders experience due to the pandemic. Today, Carol the Coach will be interviewing Dr. Gina Dunckel who specializes in trauma and knows firsthand how trauma can effect First Responders. We will be discussing First Responders, the unique culture they bring to therapy, and how to understand the differences of sexual addictions and sexual...

TodayHeather Pincelli and I will be talking about THRIVING after infidelity. Heather is a mental health counselor and coach who went through betrayal and decided to specialize in it to give partners the care that they deserve.  She  realized how much our mental health counselors and life coaches were not properly trained to hold space for and help with repair and moving forward after infidelity on...

Today, Carol the Coach is interviewing Crystal Whitlow, who is a facilitator for training clinicians with EMDR. She will be talking about EMDR protocols around EMDR and sex addiction. Addiction protocols are different that other protocols around trauma although many addicts have reenacted their trauma with sexually addictive maladaptive patterns. Listen as she talks about the protocols that can ma...

I recentlyYou have heard me say that the 12 Step Program could help anyone be a better person. Well now there is a book that explains how everyone should ascribe to the 12 Step Process! Today, Carol the Coach will be interviewing Kristin Snowden co-authored  with Scott Brassart called Life Anonymous: 12 Steps to Heal and Transform Your Life.  It was written to help non-addicts (and addicts) unders...

Tonight, Carol the Coach will be interviewing Dr. Peter Cooper who will be discussing a book Ithat he is currently writing that is tentatively titled "The Flow of Self and Sexuality", that includes and opens with a short autobiographical section as well as tying the elements of nature (earth, air, fire, water and void) into our own life and connecting with them to better understand our own sexuali...

Tonight, Carol interviews Kelly Ibarra, who has writtten a memoir about rebuilding and forgiveness after complex sexual betrayal.that both educates the reader about partner betrayal and sexual addiction and shares the process of forgiveness. Jenna Riemersma describes the book by saying, “Kelly shares a raw and personal window into her experience of betrayal and her struggle with the effects of tra...

Tonight, Carol the Coach, is interviewing Carrie Ishee who wrote a poignant memoir which chronicles the traumatic psychological abduction and sexual exploitation of depressed college student Carrie Tansey at the hands of her psychiatrist, Dr. Anthony Romano–thirty-one years her senior. For three years, their secret “affair” was carefully calculated, and controlled by Romano, as Carrie’s mental and...

Is forgiveness necessary for healing from sexual addiction? Well the truth is that it is not mandatroy to forgive the person or the acting out but if you choose to forgive you will find tonight's show illuminating as we talk to Sara Schulting-Krantz, who believes that everyone has the capacity to forgive and she will share the steps that come straight from her book, Walk Through This and Travel th...

Tonight, Carol the Coach interviews David Essel, who helps addicts look at how trauma reenactment from childhood shows up as sexual addiction in the present until you deal with the past. Listen, as he shares the path that can give great insight into true recovery.

Mindfulness can be the antidotee for a sexually addicted mind and tonight Darrin Ford tells us how he found recovery and how he is training professionals to help their clients who don't seem able to find recovery through compassion and mindfulness based addiction therapy.

There are alot of theories as to how sex addiction evolves in the lives of men and women. Tonight Carol the Coach interviews Eddie Capparucci who specializes in treating sexual addictions and ography addictions. He works with men who struggle with the addiction by challenging them understand "why" they feel, think and behave the way they do. Together, they embark on a journey of transformation tha...

Like other addictions, sexual addiction, or hypersexuality, can be masking deeper issues such as anxiety, stress and depression. How we feel after a sexual experience is usually a good barometer for our intention leading up to it. Do we feel more connected or do we feel less connected, that hollow feeling that can ensue?  Carol the Coach will be interviewing Murray Hidary who is a multi-diciplanar...

Empathy can be inherited but typically it is learned and tonight Carol talks about how to increase empathy through the use of Emotional Maturity Skills.

Carol the Coach is speaking with Jay Stringer who is a licensed mental health counselor and author of the award-winning book Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing. Unwanted is based on a multiyear research project on over 3,800 men and women to address the key drivers of unwanted sexual behavior, be that the use of ography, infidelity, or buying sex. Men and women  wiith compu...