1st Edition
Navigating the Phases of Sex Addiction Recovery A Workbook for Adding Meaningful Value and Purpose to Sobriety
Designed for use with clients recovering from sex addiction, this book guides readers through discovering the essential skills for their sober journey and find meaning and purpose in life through character development and emotional maturity, while improving their relationship with healthy intimacy.
This workbook answers the question, “I’m sober, now what?”. It contains concise exercises and take the readers on a journey that will give them an insight into what is holding them back from a life worth living, finally living in serenity, learning the art of surrender, and finding true hope and freedom in recovery. With alternating chapters presenting problems and solutions, this workbook is designed to lead the reader through the stages of recovery while gaining skills in mindfulness, emotional regulation, and impulse control.
Part 1: Technology
1. The Tech Wreck Distractor
2. The Pro-Tech Solution
Part 2: Work
3. Subjected to the Daily Grind
4. Fun in the Sun Protector
Part 3: Emotions
5. Impulsively Exhausting Emotions
6. Driving Determined Decisions
Part 4: People
7. The Indifference of Annoying People
8. The Solution of Safety and Trust
Part 5: Sexuality & Intimacy
9. The Intensity of Unhealthy Sexual Behavior
10. The Intimacy of Healthy Sexual Behavior
Part 6: Tools for managing your life
11. Tools for managing your life
12. Conclusion
Biography
Allan J. Katz is a licensed Professional Counselor (LPC/MHSP) in private practice in Memphis, Tennessee, and a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist.
“For anyone who has struggled with addiction, becoming "clean and sober" is a life-saving accomplishment. But once we are there, you may find yourself existing at the jagged edge of emotional sanity. Long term healing only happens when we work through the challenging areas of our innermost lives. This book will help you navigate the challenging path inside yourself. I highly recommend it!”
David Zailer, Founder of Operation Integrity, Author of Our Journey Home; When Lost Men Come Home; Starting Point for Recovery and Death of a Fisherman.
If you or someone you love suffers from addiction—any addiction, you will find this workbook invaluable. Katz takes a practical look at addictions but doesn't stop there. They have included several straightforward exercises to aid a person's recovery. Regardless of whether you are new to recovery, have not yet started in recovery or you have been in recovery for many years, this workbook will be a valuable addition to your recovery library.”
Dr. Milton S. Magness, Author of Stop Sex Addiction: Real Hope, True Freedom for Sex Addicts and Partners; Thirty Day to Hope & Freedom from Sex Addiction and others.
“This book offers readers time tested solutions toward true freedom and emotional integrity. Break free from frenzied obsessions and compulsions and the robotic quest for immediate gratification and enjoy a new quality of life.”
David Lieberman, Author of Seek Peace and Pursue it and How Free Will Works: The Blueprints to Take Charge of Your Life, Health and Happiness.
