Breakups can also be an opportunity to forge a new life. New people, new experiences, a chance to overcome harmful patterns of relating are all possibilities.

On this week’s podcast, we examine relationship endings as they play out in therapy.

How many times have we made the promise to ourselves that we won’t binge on porn again or have sex outside of our relationships? How many times have we run afoul of our own desire for a more honest and committed life?

On this week’s podcast, we talk about why we are so easily trapped into this delusion and what we can do to actually turn things around for the better.

Life with porn and sex addiction is life on a merry-go-round. Despite the promises we make to ourselves, we repeatedly engage in damaging sexual behavior. If we’re going to turn things around, we have to develop a birds-eye view of our behavioral process and create interventional strategies that disrupt this seemingly automatic path of damaging behavior. What is our cycle of addiction and what can we do to disrupt it?

Porn and sex addiction are often ensconced within the realm of the no. How do we make this transition from the world of ‘No’ to the new universe of ‘Yes’?

Triggering represents the people and places and things that make it more likely that we will act out. How do they do this and what can we do in response?

Why is communication so important, and what can we do to improve it and increase empathy in struggling relationships?

Sex and porn addictions are relational disorders not intimacy disorders. Find out why …on this week’s Modern Triad Podcast.

An interesting study out of Spain shows that by and large sex addicts and gambling addicts are very similar in terms of personality. But, there were a few differences noted between sex addicts and gambling addicts. What were they and what do they mean?

This week, we’ll take a look at both sides of the debate as we answer the question, ‘Can A Sex Addict Be Sex Positive?’…on this week’s Modern Triad Podcast.

The partner’s discovery of a sex addiction within the relationship in many ways marks the end of one relationship and the beginning of another. Decisions have to be made about whether things will continue and if so, how.

In this week’s episode, we take a look at three possible partner responses to porn and sex addiction within relationships and discuss issues that arise within each.

Find out…on this week’s Modern Triad Podcast.