How the 12 Steps Heal Sex Addicts: Step Eleven

Step 11: Sought through prayer and meditation a conscious contact with God as we understood him, praying only for knowledge of His will and the power to carry it out.

How the 12 Steps Heal Sex Addicts: Step Ten

Step 10: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

How the 12 Steps Heal Sex Addicts: Step Eight

Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

How the 12 Steps Heal Sex Addicts: Step Seven

Step 7: Humbly asked Him to remove these shortcomings.

How the 12 Steps Heal Sex Addicts: Step Five

Step 5: Admitted to ourselves, God, and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

How the 12 Steps Heal Sex Addicts: Step Four

This Step represents the attempt to review one’s life in as a meticulous and forthright way as possible, listing the action and choices that have caused guilt and shame in oneself, and harm to others. The process of emotional development involves a degree of self-knowledge and self-awareness. This Step is an opportunity for the addict to see repetitive cognitions and behaviors that inhibit this process of growth.

How the 12 Steps Heal Sex Addicts: Step Two

Step 2: Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

The Dysfunctional Beliefs Underlying Sex Addiction

By Dorothy Hayden, LCSW
www.sextreatment.com

Patrick Carnes, in his groundbreaking book, Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sex Addiction, cites core belief systems shared by sex addicts. They are:

Jesse James Enters Rehab for Sex Addiction

On March 30, Monster Garage host and West Coast Choppers owner Jesse James reportedly checked himself into the Sierra Tucson Treatment Center in Arizona to help manage his “personal issues,” possibly sex addiction, in hopes of saving his dilapidated marriage to Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock.

Photos of Tiger Woods at Sex Rehab Clinic in Mississippi Surface

RadarOnline.com claims that the first photos of Tiger Woods being spotted at a rehab for sexual addiction in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, have surfaced. The golfer has not been seen in public since crashing his car into a tree shortly after Thanksgiving, an accident that was the catalyst to several women coming forward claiming to have had affairs with the celebrity, who is married and has two young children. Woods eventually confessed to infidelity, and he said he would take an indefinite break from golf while he tries to save his marriage.