Sex addiction is a behavior that hinders marriage closeness, intimacy, erectile dysfunction, and can cause sex life issues. People of all ages, nationalities, genders, and races can suffer from sex and porn addiction. As a sex and porn addict, you may feel shame, guilt, loss, fear, anxiety, self-blame, and other negative emotions. A sex and porn addiction can be very negative for your romantic relationship. Your spouse may be wondering why you keep declining their sexual advances. A part of you wonders how to talk to your spouse about your porn addiction. You have been using sex and porn to get through the difficult times of life for years now. Marriage and intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within can support you in overcoming self-sabotaging porn use.
A mixture of individual and couples therapy can help when couples are impacted by one spouse’s porn and sex addiction. You can build confidence around your sexuality, overcome performance anxiety, and gain a deeper sense of intimacy in your marriage.
To begin, book your phone consult for intimacy and marriage counseling for positive coping skills to stop problematic porn use.
Symptoms of sex and porn addiction
When you have a sex addiction, you may suffer from excessive sexual thoughts. At undesirable times, you may find sexual thoughts, desires, and urges cause you to have concentration issues. When you are with your romantic partner, you keep thinking about online sex and the porn videos you watch. When you always have hyper sexual thoughts, it can make building genuine relationships very challenging.
Intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida can help you gain power back over your sex and porn addiction
Porn and other addictive sexual behaviors can easily feel and become out of control.
It is common for sex and porn addicts to feel like they can’t stop once they start watching. Hours may pass after watching one pornography video. It might feel like you spend hours of each day watching porn. If you go on the internet to look at the weather, you find yourself quickly not looking at the weather, but on a porn site.
On that note, you may feel helpless when it comes to your obsession with sex and pornography. Plus, porn addiction and addictive sexual behaviors can cause anxiety, insecurity, betrayal, and distress within romantic your relationship. You may feel like you and your spouse are always fighting about how much you are watching porn. It may feel like you are always on edge at home. Some pornography addicts end up spending all their money on online porn and ruin their finances. Intimacy therapy for couples in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling helps with getting on the same page.
Confidently talk about sex and intimacy in couples therapy in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling
Porn addiction and sex addiction can feel like shameful aspects of your life. When you suffer from sex and porn addictions, you may feel like you are disappointing your spouse. You may feel like you can’t be the lover or romantic partner your partner deserves or wants you to be. When your romantic partner initiates sex with you, you often reject them, only to masturbate alone to porn.
Overall, marriage counseling and intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida teaches you about how to overcome your addictive behaviors. From marriage and intimacy counseling, you can stop self-hatred and understand the root causes of your hyper sexual behaviors. As well, you can build a positive coping tool box of skills to cope instead of pornography. Intimacy counseling can help you talk about sex, trust, intimacy, emotions, and attachment, and gain self-compassion. The team at Wisdom Within Counseling specialize in couples therapy and helping couples create more bonding and trust.
With hyper sexual behaviors due to porn addiction and sex addiction, you may not be able to stop.
Sexual addiction is also may be talked about as hyper sexuality. When you suffer from compulsive sexual behaviors, you may experience chaffing on or near your genitals. To note, you may be masturbating so frequently that you genitals have chaffing and scabs. You may have burning, bruising, or dry skin due to over stimulation from hyperactive sexual activities.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, intimacy counseling and couples therapy near Satellite Beach, Florida can help you cope with anxiety and your impulses in healthy ways
If you can’t watch porn, you may feel more anxious. Pornography and sexual activity becomes like a drug. You need more and more to get the same high the next time. When you go too long without watching pornography, you may feel unsettled, restless, or chaotic. It feels that you have to watch porn every day, or even multiple times a day. More so, watching pornography can take away from your intimate relationship. Your porn addiction and other hyper sexual behaviors can cause problems when having sex with a real partner. It is very common for people with sex and pornography addictions to face major intimacy problems with a real life partner.
You may have a lack of a normal, healthy romantic relationships when you stuffer from a pronography addiction.
As well, your relationships with parents, siblings, and friends may be strained simply from withdrawing socially to watch porn alone. Your partner may not fully understand why you are sexually challenged or experience erectile dysfunction.
Stop secret keeping behaviors in intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling
Many people who suffer from pornography addiction keep it a secret from friends, family, and their partner their whole lives. You may have learned masturbating was wrong, so you did that in secret growing up. Couples and intimacy therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you feel safe talking about your pornography use with your romantic partner. Secret keeping behaviors perpetuate dysfunctional communication and shame.
Right now, it might be normal for you to hide, keep secrets, and not talk about sex. We don’t have many places in life where we are encouraged to talk about sex. However, intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida is your safe place to talk about sex, sexual expression, and problematic hyper sexual behaviors. You can discuss sex and make talking about sex more comfortable in marriage counseling. Your therapist can encourage you to talk with your spouse about their sexual needs as well as sexual messages they received when growing up. From building emotional safety in couples counseling near Cocoa Beach, Florida, you can build a foundation for a healthy sex life. The team at Wisdom Within Counseling specialize in helping distant couples create a more trusting, intimate relationship.
To begin, book your phone consult for intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida for overcoming your porn and sex addiction.
Emotional intimacy is a benefit of couples therapy and intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida
Rather than numbing out and keeping secrets about pronography, you can learn about emotional intimacy in marriage counseling. If you experience problems getting close and being intimate, intimacy counseling along the Space Coast of Florida can benefit you. Couples counseling can help you better not only your emotional intimacy, but also your sexual intimacy. You can start to develop more genuine relationships with your sexual partner and your family from counseling. Emotional intimacy skills help couples feel safe talking, being together, and support long-long love. From leanring about emotional intimacy, you can develop the building blocks for a healthy sex life.
Intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida helps you gain coping tools from meeting with a porn addiction specialist
Perhaps, due to the high you get from watching porn online, you not longer find your romantic partner sexy or attractive. It might be difficult to become sexually aroused by your spouse when you have trained yourself to become sexually aroused by porn videos. You may lose interest in having sex and being intimate with your spouse when suffering from porn addiction. The Wisdom Within Counseling intimacy and porn addiction specialists provide intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida. Intimacy is about getting closer emotionally first and foremost.
Learning about yourself, your addiction, and sharing it with your partner can deepen emotional intimacy.
Couples can better understand the meaning and root of trauma experiences for each other. As well, couples can build emotional intimacy by talking about how watching porn has hurt their marriage. When you are actively in your sex addiction, when you watch pornography, it can make your spouse feel insecure, betrayed, confused, and sad.
Intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida help you overcome marital distance, loneliness, and emotional disconnection.
Your spouse can share fears in couples therapy such as how they feel when you reject them sexually. Maybe, you spouse feels afraid that you don’t find them attractive any longer, which you can talk about in marriage counseling near Palm Bay, Florida. For example, couples can talk about porn use without getting angry or defensive with the help of a therapist. To add, your marriage therapist can help make sex and intimacy something normal to talk about.
Couples often skip over talking about sex at home. Therefore, intimacy therapy in Melbourne Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling gives you a safe palce to feel confident talking about sex and porn.
Understanding roots of your porn addiction with the intimacy, sex, and porn addiction specialists in Melbourne, Florida
Couples counseling in Brevard County, Florida is a safe place to talk about how pornography addiction developed early in your life. Intimacy counseling for couples in Melbourne, Florida has been there for you when other relationships haven’t. When you were growing up, during your adolescent years, you may have found porn. Then, you turn to porn and hyper sexual behaviors as a coping skill in difficult times.
Many pornography and sex addicts have built an attachment to porn over people.
You may have attached to porn as it gives lots of good emotions. Relationships with your parents, siblings, and friends may be burdensome, abuse, or not supportive. To add, you may feel emotionally drained after speaking with your narcissistic parent. As a result, you may turn to pornography to feel better and numb out. Growing up with narcissistic parents can be challenging. And, maybe, this is partly why you turned to porn. Porn gave you an escape from the toxic home environment in which you grew up. Part of marriage and intimacy counseling means understanding the roots of when you began turning to porn. Your therapist will ask you about when you first began leaning on porn to get through painful life experiences. In general, intimacy therapy is a process of learning to reconnect with yourself, and love and accept yourself.
To begin, book your phone consult for intimacy and marriage counseling for positive coping skills to stop problematic porn use.
Replacing porn use with other, healthy coping tools by working with a porn addiction specialist in intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida
As well, intimacy counseling can help you separate from and disconnect from porn, and get positive emotions from real relationships with others. You can learn to trust your spouse with your feelings and emotions from intimacy counseling.
Intimacy therapy for couples in Cocoa Beach, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling supports you in creating a safer, deeper relationship with your spouse. Learning to get positive emotions from other people and activities besides pornography is a process that takes the help of a professional in sex, marriage, and intimacy.
Your Brevard County couples therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you build healthy attachments and bond with your spouse. Therefore, at Wisdom Within Counseling, the intimacy, sex, and porn addiction specialists provide intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida.
Have open, honest conversations about sex, intimacy, and porn in intimacy counseling along the Space Coast in Melbourne, Florida
Intimacy counseling along the Space Coast in Melbourne, Florida can pair you with a porn addiction specialist and give you a space to have honest, open conversations. Honesty supports deeper connection and appreciating one another in new ways. In general, intimacy counseling near Cocoa Beach in Brevard County, Florida supports deeper emotional and sexual intimacy.
When you go to be intimate with a real life romantic partner, your body may not perform in the way you want. You may not be able to become sexually aroused with your romantic partner due to intimacy and porn issues. Erectile dysfunction can be a result of compulsive, impulsive hyper sexual behaviors and porn addiction. It may be difficult to get an erection, and maintain your erection when you suffer from porn and sex addiction. The sex and porn addiction specialists provide intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida.
Shame and guilt from a strict religious upbringing can influence porn addiction
Shame and guilt can develop around sexual expression from a young age. Children are not given proper sexual health education. To add, growing up in a strict religious home can lead to fears around your sexuality. Shame and guilt around your sexuality can develop from a strict religious upbringing. We receive shameful sexual messages often as we grow up and never realize it.
You may have felt shamed for urges, your sexual orientation, or wanting to express your gender in an alternative way. Furthermore, intimacy and marriage counseling near Satellite Beach, Florida can support talking about religious shame, guilt, and traumatizing messages. Opening the conversation around sexual expression can help couples reduce conflict, bond, and fosters more closeness.
Adolescents develop shame and guilt for these feelings and want to numb out.
If you grew up in a home where you were not allowed to be yourself, you may have internalized religious shame and guilt.
Many parents never talk about sexuality, having a developing body, and sexual urges being normal in adolescent years.
When you were an adolescent, your parents told you that you must remain a virgin until marriage. If you have sex before marriage, you would goto hell. Or, if you get pregnant before marriage, you will die and goto hell. At Wisdom Within Counseling near Cape Canaveral, Florida, you can talk about how religion has influenced your sexual behaviors. Shame and guilt from religious upbringings can lead to secret keeping behaviors too.
To begin, book your phone consult for intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida for overcoming your porn and sex addiction.
Religious shame and guilt can be a topic you can discuss with the sex and porn addiction specialists at Wisdom Within Counseling in Brevard County, Florida.
The marriage therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling provide intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida to support couples in rekindling desire.
Fear based threats are common strict religious upbringings, which cause shame and guilt. Shame and guilt are emotions that a person with a sex and porn addiction may want to numb away and not deal with.
The sex and porn addiction specialists provide intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida to teach positive coping tools. Learning how to cope in healthy, positive ways can help you find alternatives to online porn use. You can identify emotional triggers that cause you to want to use pornography.
Recovering from pornography addiction involves building trust and deepening intimacy through counseling.
When you are triggered by shame, guilt, or anxiety, instead of turning to pornography, you can turn to intimacy with your romantic partner.
To add, working with a sex and porn addiction specialist in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling is healing for trust issues. You can better understand the challenges you face around intimacy and trust.
As well, you can close the distance with your intimate partner that your porn use is creating. Intimacy counseling can help you learn to talk with your intimate, romantic partner in a calm, honest way, rather than feeling like you have to hide.
Unresolved shame and guilt can play a role in a porn addiction, intimacy issues, and hyper sexual behaviors.
You may have felt uncomfortable talking to your parents or caregivers about sex and your sexual urges. Or, you wanted to talk to your parents about your developing body and sexual urges. And, when you did, they punished you for having natural sexual urges. Not being able to talk to your parents about sex can cause shame and guilt for having sexual urges. In high school health class, you may have noticed your sexuality evolving. Even in your high school health class, you didn’t feel safe asking questions about sex, sexual desires, or porn. Intimacy counseling in Melbourne Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling is your safe place to talk about sex and your sexuality.
The sex and porn addiction specialists at Wisdom Within provide intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida to help couples rebuild their sex life.
Influences of emotional and sexual trauma
As well, when you have sex issues and need intimacy counseling, you may have attachment issues. Trauma in your childhood can make permanent changes in the brain. Flight, fight, and freeze trauma responses can cause a person to live in a high state of anxiety. As well, growing up with domestic violence, high conflict fighting, and verbal abuse is traumatizing. When you see your parents yell, fight, and verbally abuse one another, this is traumatic. Having a parent who is emotionally immature or narcissistic can be traumatic. Growing up was difficult to say the least. And, when you look back, your porn and sex addiction helped you get through it all.
Numbing behaviors like porn addiction can be a result of childhood emotional, physical, and sexual abuse.
Maybe, one of your parents or caregivers had alcoholism, was a drug addict, or numbed emotions themselves.
Your parents may have also struggled with a pornography addiction, infidelity, or cheating. Hyper sexual behaviors may have been moralized by your caregivers and role models in childhood. Maybe, your parents sexually objectified you and made inappropriate, sexual comments about your body. Looking back at your childhood and upbringing can be benefits of working with an intimacy counselor in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within. To add, the intimacy and porn specialists love helping couples rekindle connection after porn use has been damaging. At Wisdom Within Counseling, the team of marriage therapists specialize in intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida.
Intimacy isn’t only physical, and means getting closer emotionally as well as physically.
Intimacy counseling can help you identify limitations to intimacy, closeness, and trust.
There can be mental limitations like believing you are not good enough. You may also have performance anxiety due to erectile dysfunction about future sexual experiences. If you have not been able to keep your erection, you may be insecure about keeping an erection in future sexual activities. You may have a lot of self-doubt that you can work through with an intimacy and porn addiction specialist. It is possible to overcome hyper sexual behaviors and build a healthy relationship with sex.
Understanding limiting beliefs around sexual performance with an intimacy therapist and porn addiction specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling
Maybe, you have a limiting belief that you won’t ever be able to sexually satisfy your partner. Or, you may believe that watching porn and masturbating is easier than being with your romantic partner. As well, there can emotional limitations to creating a healthy sex life, like fear, anxiety, shame, and guilt. In intimacy therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling near Cape Canaveral, Florida, you and your spouse can talk about limiting beliefs around sex and what hinders a trusting bond.
To begin, book your phone consult for intimacy and marriage counseling for positive coping skills to stop problematic porn use.
What is another benefit of working with the Wisdom Within Counseling porn addiction specialists who provide intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida?
You and you partner can learn to be emotionally present and validate one another for deeper intimacy.
Gain positive coping tools from working with the intimacy and porn addiction specialists in couples counseling in Melbourne, Florida
In intimacy counseling, the sex and porn addiction specialists can help you find healthy coping tools. Right now, you might turn to porn and masturbation when you are overwhelmed, stressed, or anxious. You don’t have to feel like pornography is your only stress outlet or coping tool. An, pornography often becomes compulsive, impulsive, and sabotaging for romance anyway. Furthermore, working with an intimacy therapist can give you a safe space to process intense emotions. You can identify your emotional triggers in marriage and intimacy therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling in Melbourne, Florida.
Intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida can help you heal from emotional abuse in childhood can impact sex and porn addiction
Maybe, you had a parent who was super anxious, angry, and yelled at you a lot. Feeling like your parents were hostile and aggressive with you can lead to trust and intimacy issues in adult years. Maybe, a parent betrayed you and lied to you.
When you mom lies, cheats, or betrays you in your childhood, you grow up not being able to trust others in your life. Porn and sex addiction issues develop after experiences of childhood trauma.
Additionally, the Wisdom Within Counseling porn addiction specialists provide tools for meaningful connection and bonding. Gaining an understanding of what fosters emotional intimacy can be very beneficial. To add, pornography addiction and intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling give couples a safe place to bond.
One of your parents may have “snapped” in a split second and started belittling and name calling you.
Having a parent with a short fuse and anger management issues can be traumatizing. You may have felt unsafe emotionally growing up with emotionally immature, narcissistic, borderline, and abusive parents. Emotional abuse in childhood is a form of trauma that can lead to numbing and addictive behaviors.
To begin, book your phone consult for intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida for overcoming your porn and sex addiction.
Intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida encourages healing from sexual abuse in childhood, which can impact sex and porn addiction
To add, sexual trauma, where your body was touched in an unwanted way, can lead to porn and compulsive hyper sexual behaviors. When a child experiences sexual trauma, the mind and body disconnect. A person who suffers from trauma and PTSD may disassociate and numb out.
Sexual trauma can also include attempted rape, molestation, or incest. As well, sexual trauma can include non contact sexual abuse like watching parents masturbate or have sex. Maybe, you experienced some sexual abuse in your childhood that needs nurturing and compassion. Non contact sexual trauma can include having a naked photo you sent in confidence exposed around your school or other group. Unwanted sexual touch and sexual abuse in childhood can lead to numbing and other destructive behaviors.
Experiencing sexual trauma in childhood can lead to fight, flight, and freeze trauma symptoms.
Each person who experiences sexual trauma reacts differently. For one, you may freeze up when your partner touches your body. So, if you freeze up, you may resort to masturbation and pornography use, and disengage with your spouse sexually. Touch from another person in a sexual way, even from your spouse, causes a freeze response. For others who experience sexual trauma, they may deeply crave touch of all kind, and touch themselves too much.
After sexual trauma, you may find yourself masturbating too much.
As a result of sexual trauma, you may also become hyper focused on sexual activity. Trauma leads to altered brain function and couples therapy can teach you about PTSD and trauma symptoms, and positive coping skills. Instead to choosing to numb out using addictive behaviors, substance abuse, cocaine, alcohol, pills, and amphetamines, you can find positive ways to cope with trauma memories.
Growing up, you may have experiences of sexual trauma, that can lead to porn and sex addiction.
Trauma can be a topic that you and your spouse start comfortably talking about. Intimacy counseling is about being yourself, being authentic, and having a voice in your relationship. The sex and porn addiction specialists love helping couples through intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you get a safe place to have a healthy conversations together rather than avoiding intimacy.
To begin, book your phone consult for intimacy and marriage counseling for positive coping skills to stop problematic porn use.
People commonly use pornography to numb out and avoid dealing with difficult emotions.
When emotions feel overwhelming or unsafe to deal with, you may turn to pronography for a high feeling. The Wisdom Within Counseling porn addiction specialists specialize in intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida. To note, pornography and sex addicts are always chasing the next high. Watching pornography provides a high feeling in the brain. And, every time you watch more pornography, you need more and more pornography to get the same high as before.
Pornography addiction is a common numbing behavior after trauma experiences.
Intimacy counseling in Cocoa Beach, Florida and working with a porn addiction specialist can help you gain positive coping strategies for trauma. Instead of needing to push emotions away and reach for the next high, you can turn towards your partner. Talking about when you feel trauma memories resurfacing can help you process and release them. You can find hobbies you enjoy like pickle ball, swimming, knitting, or cooking. Instead of needing pornography like a drug to feel good about yourself, you can find joy in positive coping skills.
Learning coping strategies can help you express your feelings in healthy ways and communicate what you need with your partner. You may struggle with anxiety, fear, frustration, and insecurity that your intimacy therapist can help you release.
Instead of choosing numbing behaviors like increasing pornography use, which can damage your marriage and intimacy, you can gain positive coping tools.
Counseling for more intimacy allows couples to have more open communication around childhood trauma. Couples therapy near Cape Canaveral, Florida offers couples a safe place to talk about PTSD and trauma. Rather than numbing out or feeling alone, partners can gain emotional intimacy skills.
With your sex and porn addiction therapist and intimacy counselor in Melbourne, Florida, you can share triggers that cause you to feel low in self-esteem, insecure, or afraid with your spouse.
By understanding how your trauma experiences impact your sex and pornography addiction, you can ask for help more confidently. If you need praise or encouragement, you can ask for that from your partner.
To add, your partner may have faced their own childhood trauma experiences. As a child, your partner may have experiences sexual, emotional, or physical trauma too, which can be a point of bonding. From working with a marriage counselor and intimacy specialist, you can create a safe space at home that foster emotional security. Understanding the impact of trauma can be eye opening and positive for couples in counseling. Sharing experiences when you felt unseen, unheard, or unloved as a child can help you build intimacy in your marriage.
To begin, book your phone consult for intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida for skills to create a more meaningful connection with your spouse.
Pornography addiction is often a trauma symptom that occurs after sexual, emotional, and physical abuse.
Your couples therapist can teach you how to be there for your partner too. Understanding trauma experiences can help couples overcome porn addiction and create more intimacy together. The Wisdom Within Counseling sex and porn addiction therapists specialize in intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida.
Porn addiction often occurs alongside other mental health disorders
If you struggle with sex and porn addictions, you may also struggle with mood disorders such as bipolar disorder or an anxiety disorder.
To add, some people who struggle with pornography addiction also have a history of suicide attempts and self-harm. Some people with a sex and pornography addiction struggle with personality disorders and other addictive disorders. Intimacy counseling at Wisdom Within Counseling in Melbourne, Florida can give you tools for impulse control around pornography.
Someone may have a sex and porn addiction alongside PTSD.
Furthermore, you may suffer from obsessive-compulsive thoughts around your pornography use. If you have a pornography addiction alongside attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you are not alone. At Wisdom Within Counseling, in Brevard County, the sex and porn addiction specialists support couples through intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida. You may feel restless or live in a state of high anxiety all the time when suffering from a porn and sex addiction.
Working with an intimacy therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling who understands how mental health and trauma goes hand in hand can improve you marriage.
Couples in counseling can start to rebuild emotional intimacy. Improving communication can be a benefit of working with an intimacy specialist. Being able to talk about emotional safety is an important part of building intimacy in your marriage.
Intimacy therapy can help you overcome guilt, shame, and hopelessness over addictive behavior
When you have a sex and pornography addiction, it may be difficult to be intimate and sexual with your real life partner. You may only enjoy looking at pronography online.
As well as compulsive thoughts about pornography use that hinder your ability to be sexually aroused with your spouse, you may suffer from complex emotions.
It is normal for pornography and sex addicts to feel angry at themselves for self-sabotaging behaviors.
As well, you may feel shame about not being able to stop using pronography. It might feel like you are treading water with anxiety and stuck in the cycle of your addiction alone.
To begin, book your phone consult for intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida for skills to create a more meaningful connection with your spouse.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can talk through what happens in the cycle of pornography addiction for you.
Letting it out and having a safe place in marriage counseling in Brevard County, Florida can help you gain self-awareness. You may have self-sabotaging thoughts based in self-hate or guilt. Porn and sex addicts can gain acceptance skills in counseling. Instead of self-hatred and shame, you can learn positive affirmations from meeting with a therapist. The sex and porn addiction therapists who specialize in intimacy counseling at Wisdom Within can teach you positive self-talk skills.
Learning to speak to yourself in an encouraging way is an important self in bettering your relationship with yourself. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Melbourne, Florida, you can stop self-sabotaging behaviors that harm relationships with others. You can learn to recognize your strengths, talents, and be proud of the goals you are setting for yourself. In marriage and intimacy counseling, couples can have more open and honest conversations that they get to at home.
Acceptance and letting of negative beliefs when working with the team of sex and porn addiction therapists who specialize in intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida
As well, you can let go of where you think you should be or who you think you should be. Identifying as a pornography and sex addict means learning acceptance. Don’t compare yourself or your life to others. So often, unresolved trauma, anxiety, and intense emotions can lead to compulsive sexual behaviors and hyper sexual pornography use. Letting go of where you think you should be, and accepting where you are is key. We all have to start somewhere to grow.
You may feel sad or shame for how you are hurting your spouse with compulsive pornography use. Though, from working with the Wisdom Within Counseling sex and porn addiction therapists, you can accept where you are as a starting place. Your marriage therapist who specializes in intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida, can help you define what acceptance and resiliency looks like to you.
The sex and porn addiction therapists help you lower anxiety and relax
You can learn to take pressure off during sexual experiences with you partner from intimacy therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling. A part of your may feel afraid you won’t be able to stay erect when having sex with your spouse. Another part of you may feel afraid that you’ll struggle to get aroused sexually in the first place. A deeper part of you fears your partner will reject you sexually, or you won’t be good enough in bed.
From marriage therapy in Melbourne, Florida and intimacy counseling, you can accept and overcome your insecurities.
Your therapist can teach you mindfulness meditation skills for relaxation. To enjoy sex with your spouse again means relaxing into the moment. Letting go of anxiety is an important skill for more pleasurable sexual experiences with your spouse. You and your partner can grow in positive way together from gaining mindfulness and relaxation skills. Learning to lower your anxiety can help improve the relationships you have with others as well. You can address sexual insecurities due to your sex and porn addiction at Wisdom Within Counseling with the marriage and couples therapists along the Space Coast of Florida. The sex and porn addiction therapists specialize in intimacy counseling to support sexual confidence.
To begin, book your phone consult for intimacy and marriage counseling for positive coping skills to stop problematic porn use.
Finding positive coping tools for guilt, shame, and anxiety are benefits of intimacy and marriage therapy in Palm Bay, Florida.
When you feel depressed, lonely, or fearful, you can use a positive coping strategy to cope in a healthier, less destructive way. At Wisdom Within Counseling along the Space Coast of Florida, you can identify skills to help you gain power over addictive behaviors. You might join a rub club instead of withdrawing socially to masturbate. Or, you might enroll in a local yoga class to better your stress management skills. Yoga can also be a great way to boost serotonin and happy chemicals in your brain. Therapy can be a safe place to talk about building a more intimate and healthy relationship with your mind and body.
Your intimacy therapist can help you create a healthier, more balanced lifestyle.
Counseling teaches you lifelong, positive coping skills to live a more holistic life. As wel, you and your therapist can talk about changes to nutrition, sleep, and balancing your life as a whole. Instead of feeling helpless or like your brain is being highjacked, you can gain courage, self-compassion, and mental clarity. Intimacy counseling helps you be more in tune with yourself, your feelings, and identify positive ways to release stress holistically.
When you have a pornography addiction, you may feel shame or guilt for not being able to stop your hyper sexual behaviors.
Even when your sexual behaviors have negative consequences to your finances, relationships, health or emotions, you may still not be able to stop. Feeling powerless over your sex and porn addiction can be something to talk about in intimacy and couples therapy along the Space Coast of Florida. At Wisdom Within Counseling, the sex and porn addiction specialists provide intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida for couples.
Instead of engaging in sexual behavior alone, couples therapy and intimacy therapy near Cape Canaveral, Florida can help you turn towards your spouse.
Working with a marriage counselor and intimacy specialist can help you rebuild your marital intimacy. From a better, more self-aware relationship, you can extend that self-love to your spouse. Building a loving marriage starts with self-love and mind body connection. Instead of feeling that you have to hide the fact that you are obsessed with sex, you can learn to confide in your romantic partner. Sharing about your day, failures, and things that make you sad can build emotional intimacy.
Right now, you may spend a lot of time fantasizing about your sexual urges alone, fantasizing about the next time you can be by yourself.
You can gain a healthier relationship with your mind, body, and spirit as a result of intimacy counseling.
Intimacy therapy can help individuals and couples, as often multiple people are impacted by one person’s porn addiction.
To begin, book your phone consult for intimacy therapy in Melbourne, Florida for overcoming your porn and sex addiction.
Why work with a sex and porn addiction therapist who specializes in intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida?
Sexual addictions do not go away on their own.
Many times, a person will try to stop using porn on their own for a short period of time. However, they can’t stop porn use and other hyper sexual behaviors long term without professional help. Your intimacy therapist near Satellite Beach, Florida can help you accept the marital distress that your hyper sexual behaviors cause.
As well, your marriage therapist in Brevard County, Florida can help you change the relationship you have with your obsessive, sexual thoughts.
You can start to change the relationship you have with sex from being anxious, compulsive, and impulsive.
Instead, you can turn towards your spouse rather than using pornography to numb out, isolate, and withdraw. The Wisdom Within Counseling marriage and porn addiction therapists specialize in intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida. In counseling you can understand that managing your sex and porn addiction is a life-long process and commitment.
When you feel triggered to turn to pornography, your intimacy therapist can help you stay focused on your most important goals. As well, your intimacy therapist can help you take step to repair damaged relationships due to porn, like the one with your spouse. Additionally, your intimacy and marriage at Wisdom Within Counseling in Brevard County Florida can be encouraging.
You and your intimacy therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling can work together to create a plan.
For instance, you may decide you need to block pornography sites on your phone and computer. You may want to log out of subscription porn sites and clear your browsing history. If you always stop at the strip club on your way home from work, you may need to take a different route. Identify triggers to hyper sexual behaviors. Changing the way you drive home to avoid strip clubs can help you reduce hyper sexual behaviors that cause marital problems.
Other changes you can make can include staying busy.
Being physically active can boost your natural feel-good chemicals and be alternatives to porn. Moving your body can redirect and distract your mind from compulsive sexual behaviors. Some porn and sex addicts choose to get a second job, open a small business, or start an etsy shop. Putting your energy into something positive can be helpful.
When you are creative, you may even feel a newfound sense of passion for life. You may want to become a volunteer for organizations that help others, or even write a short book on your life and porn addiction story. Overall, finding ways to release anxiety holistically can improve your stress-reduction methods as a whole. To overcome your porn addiction, you can start to reconnect to your mind, body, and spirit in healthy ways.
Porn addiction specialists provide intimacy counseling in Melbourne, Florida
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