Going Deeper: How the Inner Child Impacts Your Sexual Addiction

While you are consciously unaware of the negative memories, your inner child is fully activated and re-living previous emotional trauma, which he desperately wishes to escape.

What if you could actually know what is driving your unhealthy choices? What if you could get to the root of the problem? What if you could understand yourself and your patterns in a way that brings about real change in your life? What if?

Our inner child doesn’t think about others’ feelings or the consequence of his actions.

But the truth is we are afraid of feeling.

In seeking ways to avoid sitting with painful emotions, he learned sex provides an adrenaline rush, unlike anything he has ever experienced before.

Whenever we act out, it is correlated to a core emotional trigger that occurred.

we have not been examining the true nature of our addiction. Because if we did, we would find… the road to recovery from sexual addiction goes through our childhood.

To become emotionally intimate, they will need to learn how to keep their heads upright so they can be aware of the needs and desires of those around them and recognize opportunities where they can engage in genuine community.

And over time, it can produce feelings of unfulfillment and shamefulness. That is why men who abuse sex desperately seek to keep their actions hidden in the dark, away from others. They are fearful of others knowing their secrets because their actions are rooted in shame.

A vital component of a man’s sexual recovery is to learn techniques to assist him in reducing the anxiety he experiences when emotions arise so he can remain engaged instead of simply being present.