In this episode, I interview Sexual Addiction Therapist, Dan Ellenberg MA, NCC, LPCA. Some highlights of the show include:

- Dan discovering porn at 9 years old which led to an addiction 
- Why men don't often speak up about their porn struggles and hide it in relationships 
- Why the porn or sex addiction started years before the relationship even started and isn't because of the woman/partner
-  Why a sex or porn addiction isn't actually about the sex/porn or "attractiveness" of other women 
- How a porn habit can escalate into an addiction
- The chemicals being released in your brain while watching porn 
- Why porn users continue going back to porn even when it makes them feel bad
- Why the problem of pornography is underplayed
- Intimacy disorder resulting from an insecure attachment style 
- How EMDR can help people overcome addictions and trauma
- Why surveillance tools like CovenentEyes don't solve the issue of relapsing

If you'd like to contact Dan, you can reach him at https://www.dynamiscounseling.com/

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