Rebuilding Trust with Carol The Coach

Carol the Coach will be interviewing a partner who has had to readjust her whole life as a result of sexual addiction. Here how she coped and found strength as she began to depend solely on her self and safe people within her environment.  

One of the challenges after 6-12 months of sobriety for individuals is handling their emotional life. After all, one reason why addictions start is to avoid feeling emotions to begin with. Our guest Jan M. Bergstrom, who wrote Gifts from a Challenging Childhood; Creating a Practice for Becoming Your Healthiest Self, believes that individuals have to to heal from family of origin trauma. In our sho...

We are all pioneers in the field of sex addiction. Yet many therapists don't agree on whether sex addiction even exists. There are so many questions. Tonight Carol the Coach interviews Michael Salas from Vantage Point Dallas Counselling who weighs in on the controversy. He helps therapists to understand and treat compulsive sexual behavior. He says that when the therapist community struggles t...

Carol the Coach will be interview Cat Clark who has done a 4 book series about both she and her husband Frank and the transitions that have occured because of partner betrayal. Her immune system was dramatically compromised and so she talks with couples and partners as to what she did to minimize the damage and restore her serenity,

Secrets, manipulations and addiction prevent the partner from trusting the spouse again. Tonight, I will be chatting with Geoff Steurer who is going to be talking about how the sex addict can make the unfaithful partner feel better and  find effective trust-building efforts focused on caring for the  betrayed partner as an individual worthy of respect.

Ambiguous Grief is a term that can be applied to all types of grief that do not have a hard definition for the change in a relationship. Tonight, Carol the Coach will be talking to Sophia Caudie who has a new model and book that talks about how difficult it may be to recognize and grieve the loss. She hopes that discussing it tonight will help clients understand how to work on the mourning that ac...

Sex addiction worsens when trauma goes undetected or untreated. This is a prepeat of a show that helps the SA understand about trauma.

Tonight, Carol the Coach will be interviewing Dr. David Fawcett who is a social worker and clinical sexologist. He is Vice President for Clinical Programming at Seeking Integrity and is seen as an expert on gay men. drug use and high rsk sexual behavior. His book Lust, Men and Meth: A Gay Man's Guide to Sex and Recovery is considered a recovery must in working with gay men. Listen as he talks...

Carol the Coach interviews Charlene Benson, who wrote Unstuck Move from Powerless to Empowered in your Relationships. The "Relationship Coach" wants you to understand the hidden reasons that drive your behaviors and ditch old patterns and embrace a healthier way of loving and experencing love. She will talk to you about the powerful pathways to help you avoid giving up in defeat or getti...

Tonight, Carol the Coach will be interviewing Alex, whose father was a sex addict. Her discovery occurred when she was contacted by his mistress and given the gory details of their affair. This is a story of the collateral damage that can occur as a result of sex addiction. Alex candidly shares her story of the betrayal and how she had to figure out how to be a child again and to love her dad rega...

Carol the Coach interviews Scott Brassart, who has written Sex and Addiction Healing and Recovery: A Daily Reader for Sex and Addicts. He believes this book will help addicts in recovery, because it shares the daily nuggets of information and wisdom that can guide you towards making healthy choices. He feels that there has been very little written to guide addicts on a daily basis that is relevant...

There is research that suggests that 1 out of 6 men have been sexually abused before the age of 18. Many men chose not to disclose and my guest tonight, Dr. Kelli Palfy has written a book Men Too. It is a compilation of Kelly's research as a psychologist and a police officer who identified offending patterns and common grooming techniques that added to perpetration. She also wants the public t...

Tonight, Carol the Coach interviews Eddie Capparucci, who has created a process that he has found very successful in treating and sex addiction. He believes the road to recovery from sexual and ography addiction goes through your childhood. It is the various pain points we suffered as children, adolescents and teenagers that impact our sexual and ography addictions today. And the key to unlocking...

It is important for you to understand that you have an addiction, but who are you really? Carol the Coach interviews Rob, who wants to help people understand that he believes that the only way to surrender to one's true self is to surrender to what God wants him to be and when surrender occurs, he is liberated to follow his true legacy. Listen as Rob talks about the importance of understanding...

There are all sorts of ways that addicts experience interpersonal betrayal of trauma. Find out how tonight's guest Michael Crocker suggests therapists need to help addicts through the guilt and stop injuring themselves.

MBATT therapists are helping addicts and partners to reduce trauma triggers that interfere in healthy recovery. Carol the Coach will be interviewing Darrin Ford, Founder and Director of TMAATT has been studying years of research that inspired the Mindfulness Academy for Addiction and Trauma Training. Listen to why he believes that it is crucial to working through the chaos and trauma of addiction.

Tonight Carol the Coach will be interviewing Ken Wells who has written the book, Dare to Be Average:Finding Brilliaance in the Commonplace. He explains how embracing “average” in life impacts the recovery life of an addict? He will explain how to have an open heart and how that impacts "going deep" to assist SA's in finding their brilliance. He believes that you can transform the exp...

Recovery resources are fully online and this is great news for many reasons. Whether you’re anxious about leaving the house due to the current pandemic or too shy to walk in the door of a meeting or professional’s office, online help is a convenient option. In this episode, sex addiction specialist Forest Benedict shares from his experience as a fully online therapist and coach. We will discuss th...

Ross Rosenberg has spent his life helping clients and clinicians understand how trauma attachment causes Self-Love Deficit Disorder. Tonight he will be talking about his theories that represents the most modern and scientifically up-to-date thinking about codependency.  "Codependency,” is re-defined and re-conceptualized into “Self-Love Deficit Disorder (SLDD)™," which is a trauma, core...

Online support and connection are available for those who are struggling with sex and addiction, paired substance/sex addiction, love addiction and other relationship issues on www.sexandrelationshiphealing.com. Addicts and loved ones of these can also get the guidance they need from experts like Dr. Rob Weiss and Dr. David Fawcett.   Listen as Carol the Coach asks Tami VerHelst, Chief Relationshi...

Covid-19 has created some challenging circumstances for people who need counselling and yet it has also afforded us increased ingenuity. Listen as Carol the Coach interviews Samantha Ammann who is going to explain how you can do EMDR virtually. She has a wealth of knowledge and wants to share it with our listening audience so you can continue your trauma work during Covid-19.

Tonight Carol the Coach will be interviewing Dr. Stefanie Carnes about her new book entitled, "Courageous Love: A Couples Guide to Conquering Betrayal". Couragious Love is a book for couples who would like to work together to save their relationship, following an experience of betrayal. In the book, Dr. Carnes discusses betrayal trauma, and educates couples about normal responses to betr...

Carol the Coach is interviewing Jennifer Irwin who wrote the novel, A Dress the Color of the Sky. This book reads more like a memoir and shares one woman's battle with sex addiction to cope with childhood trauma. It is a riveting story and it helps the general publiic understand the dynamics behind why a woman would use sex to medicate. Her premise is that for too many years, Prudence Aldrich...

  Carol the Coach will be interviewing Dr. Carol Clark who is a Clinical Sexologist and runs a training program for professionals who work in the field of addiction. She wrote a book on skills and tools that people find really helpful in their daily lives called My Pocket Therapist:12 Tools for Living in Connection.  She believes that what gives people hope and strength is to learn to live more fu...

Carol the Coaach will be interviewing Tim Stein who serves the sex addiction population in a myriad of ways. Tim and his business partner created an on line course for Sex Addiction and Partner Betrayal to help this population understand the trauma that typically accompanies this condition. He wanted this community to have a "go to" that would normalize the  process of addiction and help...