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Discovering your partner has a secret porn and/or sex addiction is destabilizing. At the beginning of my healing journey, I beat myself up so much for not knowing the man I lived with had a porn or sex addiction. I thought it was my fault and I couldn't understand why.  In this episode, I interview Psychotherapist Anastacia who specializes in sex and porn addiction, and is a former betrayed p...

This is a meditation - not a podcast episode. This Inner Child visualization fosters self-compassion and self-love by nurturing the inner child, helping women rebuild their self-esteem and recognize their inherent value. Please find a safe place to sit or lie down comfortably.   Follow along for more resources TikTok Instagram P*rn addiction recovery resource: Click here **Please subscribe and rat...

This is a visualization meditation technique - not a podcast episode. This is perfect to listen to when you're having a hard time making a decision or feel "stuck" in life. Find a place where you can sit or lie down. All the answers are already within you <3 Follow along for more resources TikTok Instagram P*rn addiction recovery resource: Click here **Please subscribe and rate t...

Curious about what it's like to overcome a porn addiction, and how porn can negatively impact lives and relationships? Check out this episode with Porn Addiction Recovery Coach, Jeremy Lipkowitz who has personally overcome his own porn addiction and now helps others recover.  Connect with Jeremy Lipkowitz here: Unhooked Academy JeremyLipkowitz.com Follow along for more resources TikTok Instag...

One of the hardest self-limiting beliefs I had to overcome on my healing journey was thinking his addiction was because I wasn't good enough, wasn't attractive enough, wasn't sexy enough, etc. I HATED my body after discovering the betrayal and my self-confidence was gooonnneeeee. I thought if I was "better" or more attractive I could have prevented it. These are awful lies...

Fun fact: I was training to become a meditation teacher for three months before discovering my partner's secret porn and sex addiction. The emotional regulation and nervous system regulation tools I learned during that training ended up saving my life (literally) while navigating betrayal. So in this episode, we dive into how it can help the healing journey For any skeptics of meditation (I d...

THIS IS A MEDITATION, not a podcast episode. Please listen to this when you're able to sit down (or lie down) and chill the f*** out :) Let this meditation be a sanctuary where you're reminded of your strength, worthiness, and gratitude for yourself.  Affirmations: I am deserving of love, respect, and happiness My worth is not determined by the actions of others I am enough and I always...

In this episode, I interview Registered Psychotherapist and Certified Sexual Recovery Therapist, Paul Lavergne who works with men with compulsive sexual behaviors who are in relationships, having serial affairs, cheating, going to massage parlors, strip clubs, sexting, talking to cam girls, etc. Paul shares his personal past experience with porn addiction after discovering it at 10 years old, his...

ONE OF MY FAVORITE EPISODES <3 One month after I discovered my partner's secret porn & sex addiction, I received a phone call from my friend crying who just discovered her fiance's secret porn and sex addiction.  Now over a year later, we've talked almost every day throughout our healing journeys and I'm SO proud of how far she's come. In this episode,  I interview...

In this episode, I welcome Brando, who bravely shares his journey through porn addiction after finding it when he was 10. Brando opens up about his struggle from childhood into adulthood, performance anxiety, the negative impacts on his mental health and relationships, and the shame associated with addiction.  We discuss the importance of vulnerability and the role of conscious practices like brea...

This podcast episode features an in-depth conversation with Melinda Tankard Reist, a journalist and activist renowned for her work against the pornography industry, its harmful effects on society, and her grassroots organization Collective Shout. The discussion covers a wide range of topics, including the normalization and dangers of pornography, its role in objectifying women and perpetuating vio...

There is a saying that goes "Time heals all wounds" but I disagree. Time doesn't heal wounds. We don't magically wake up one day and all our pain is gone... Learning to love ourselves and using that as motivation to create positive change in our life heals wounds. Society conditions us to look at all the negative aspects of ourselves, but what happens if we rebel and start to r...

WTF... OnlyFans Recruiting Agencies exist?! In this episode, I chat with Victoria Sinis who speaks about her experience working at an OnlyFans Recruiting Agency and why she quit after crying at work everyday.  Now, Victoria speaks at schools to empower young women and to encourage people to think twice about OnlyFans. We also discuss the impact OnlyFans and porn are having on society and the conse...

Society never teaches us how to express anger. We're taught that anger is not "ladylike" and we need to be sweet, gentle, kind, and quiet 24/7 but I disagree. Feelings are meant to be felt, not controlled. Our anger is so important and powerful because it's telling us that something isn't right. It's our body's way of communicating to us that we are hurt and we n...

In this episode, I interview Sexual Addiction Therapist, Dan Ellenberg MA, NCC, LPCA. Some highlights of the show include: - Dan discovering porn at 9 years old which led to an addiction  - Why men don't often speak up about their porn struggles and hide it in relationships  - Why the porn or sex addiction started years before the relationship even started and isn't because of the woman/...

If your ex immediately went on the dating apps after your break up,  you're already doing better mentally and emotionally than they are. This episode dives into the fact that they aren't over you, it's an unhealthy coping mechanism because they miss your presence, and inspiration for you to stay off the apps immediately after a breakup and to focus on dating yourself instead <3  ...

This episode discusses warning signs he may watch a lot of porn or have a potential porn addiction from women who discovered it in their relationships/marriages. Research continuously shows porn can rewire the brain and have a negative impact on relationships. Whether you're in a relationship or actively dating and vetting out potential partners, this episode contains information from betraye...

Years of research are now showing that porn is rewiring our brains and negatively impacting mental health and relationships as a result.  It’s time to shed light on a topic that society continuously turns a blind eye to… because WTF is it doing to us all long-term??? This is an unfiltered journey through the complexities of discovering a partner’s secret porn addiction turned sex addiction, the fe...

This episode was originally recorded on February 18, 2024 on the podcast "Unhooked: Breaking Porn Addiction Podcast" by Jeremy Lipkowitz. You can find his podcast on the main podcast sources and the episode is called "My Partner's Porn Addiction: Dealing with Betrayal Trauma & Understanding the Effects of Porn on Intimacy" In this episode, host Jeremy Lipkowitz convers...