Facing The Shadow

While many books on sexual addiction are available today, FACING THE SHADOW: STARTING SEXUAL AND RELATIONSHIP RECOVERY is the first to take techniques used by thousands of recovering from sex addiction and show, step by step, how to break free of this disease and live a healthier, more fulfilling life. For all addicts, a moment comes when they realize they have a problem. There is sudden clarity—the insight that life has become unmanageable. That moment, however, is fragile. It is easily lost to craving and denial. People struggling with sex addiction find the old refrains creeping back into their thinking: My situation is different. . . . This will all blow over. . . . People are over-reacting to my behavior. Or, This is hopeless. I'm just too perverted to change. "If any of those thoughts occur to you, you are exactly where you should be," notes Dr. Patrick Carnes in the introduction to Facing the Shadow. Starting with those gentle words, he guides readers through a series of reflect