Category: Sexual Addiction

• How to Finally Be Free

  

  Discover how true freedom comes from healing deep emotional pain, not avoiding it. In this post, explore how Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy can help you release past wounds, let go of shame, and reconnect with your authentic self. Learn how to build a new, empowering relationship with yourself and live the life you’ve always…

  Forest Benedict, LMFT

  January 5, 2024

  Addiction, Change, IFS, Inspiration, Recovery, Religious trauma, Sexual Addiction, Sexual shame, trauma

  freedom, healing, IFS, love, mental health, pain, recovery, Religious trauma, Sexual shame, trauma

• My Podcast Interview On Religious Trauma, Sexual Shame, & Unpublishing My Book on Lust

  

  Listen to my candid podcast interview where I discuss the profound changes in my life, from shifting my work focus from sex addiction treatment to religious trauma, to unpublishing my book on lust. Learn how healing from religious trauma and sexual shame has brought me freedom, and how IFS and other therapeutic approaches have shaped…

  Forest Benedict, LMFT

  May 20, 2023

  Change, life after lust, Religious trauma, Sexual Addiction, Sexual shame

  IFS, interview, podcast, Religious trauma, Sexual shame

• Let’s Heal for Our Children

  

  Join me in doing everything we can to heal anything in us that hinders connection with our children

  Forest Benedict, LMFT

  November 2, 2022

  Addiction, Attachment, children, Connection, IFS, Inspiration, Parenting, Recovery, Religious trauma, Sexual Addiction, Sexual shame, Shame, trauma

  IFS, pain, parenting, psychedelics, recovery, Religious trauma, trauma

• Triggers Are Teachers

  

  Triggers teach us what needs our attention inside

  Forest Benedict, LMFT

  October 13, 2020

  Addiction, IFS, Inspiration, partners, Recovery, self-compassion, Self-Connection, Sexual Addiction, trauma, writing

  covid, dick schwartz, healing, IFS, pandemic, politics, recovery, tormentor, trauma, trigger

• 11 Self-Love Strategies to Transform Your Life (Video Presentation)

  Did you know that self-love can transform your life? It’s true. In my presentation last week through the Center for Healthy Sex, I shared 11 self-love strategies that are potentially life-changing for those who practice them. While my presentation has a recovery focus, I recommend it to everyone because it presents science-based strategies and specific…

  Forest Benedict, LMFT

  March 13, 2019

  Addiction, Attachment, Connection, Inspiration, life after lust, Parenting, partners, pornography, Recovery, Sexual Addiction, Shame, trauma

  center for healthy sex, life after lust, self-connection, self-love