Compulsions

Sensory Processing Disorder (Hyper Sensitivity) in Adults and Post COVID-19

What is Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)?

A Sensory Processing Disorder is how your senses (Hear, Smell, Taste, Touch, & See) affects continue reading

Life moves fast and expectations are bestowed upon us at rapid speed. We often fail to recognize how many choices we’re presented with throughout any given day of our lives. We get used to continue reading

Introduction

Introducing a meditation practice into your daily routine can be a powerful act that enhances focus and self-reflection. Carving out the time to meditate sends a message to yourself that your inner continue reading

Discovering your deeper need is an exercise designed to help you recognize how and why your feelings arise, what those feelings entail and how they are pointing you into the direction of your deeper continue reading

Why do some sexual desires and practices make us feel good and others make us shrink with shame? Sometimes, this is due to a mismatch between our desires and our beliefs about what is right continue reading

Although someone with a compulsion problem or their loved one may not want to admit it, lying and compulsions go together. This is especially true when the compulsion is still active. When you really continue reading

Knowing someone or living with a person who is in denial of problematic behavior can be very frustrating, especially if the person’s behavior is problematic and obvious to you. It can also be frightening continue reading

Using a Relationship Smorgasbord to Manage Relationship Expectations

Relationships can be confusing. Most of us have preconceived notions of what types of things are included in a friendship vs romantic relationship vs business partnership, which continue reading

It is common to hear the question “why are you doing this?” from the loved ones of people with different compulsive behaviors. The hope behind this inquiry is to help loved ones gain insight continue reading

Many people who struggle with binge eating have successfully disconnected from their bodies and their ability to sense hunger. This is because binges are triggered by uncomfortable emotions such as shame, sadness, anger or fear continue reading

Asking for help may seem easy for some and difficult for others. Usually it is not asking for help itself that is the issue, but the meaning or beliefs you may assign to continue reading

Recovering from an addiction, whether it be sex, work, or money, has its rewards as well as challenges. Although relapse prevention may appear to look easy, preventing relapse is as much a process as continue reading

Codependent Couples:

How to Heal from being Codependent on your Partner

Codependency, a popular buzz-word today in many social circles, is still often misunderstood in relationships where this dynamic occurs. Many continue reading

What exactly is shame? Shame is the feeling that results from how we negatively judge ourselves about an action we did. Actions that create shame are ones that we want to keep a secret. For continue reading

Porn is a sexual tool that many people utilize. However, while some have a healthy relationship with pornography, others develop obsessive and destructive tendencies with porn. Some people would argue that they have a problem continue reading