Matt and Carriss D - Emotional Sobriety and Restoring Intimacy - Meeting 285

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Matt and Carriss speak to us today on emotional sobriety and restoring intimacy.
Although sexaholism was pervasive in Matt's family of origin, he didn't know there was a name for it until his wife's own sexaholism brought him to S-Anon in 2021. It wasn't until he was about nine months in that he finally realized he had work to do on himself, and by the end of his first year in recovery he'd completed his step work and had become a new person. It used to be that he couldn't imagine life being any worse, but now, by the grace of God, he struggles to imagine it can get any better.

Carriss is a grateful recovered sexaholic from St. Louis and has been a member of SA since August 2021. Carriss joined the program to save her marriage but when she accepted her sexaholism as a disease and began working a rigorous program she saved herself. Carriss's life, marriage and attitude have changed for the better and for these reasons she is grateful to be a sexaholic.
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Resources from this episode:
SA Sexaholics Anonymous
S-Anon
RCA Recovering Couples Anonymous
Green Book of S Anon
White Book of SA
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