
Going Deeper: How the Inner Child Impacts Your Sexual Addiction

This inner child HATES feeling any emotions except those that are pleasurable. Remember, his goal is always to seek comfort. The inner child of a man who has a low emotional IQ is hypervigilant and on the alert for troubling emotions experienced internally as well as those expressed by others.
Eddie Capparucci LPC • Going Deeper: How the Inner Child Impacts Your Sexual Addiction
Since they cannot seem to escape criticism in their life, they turn to fantasy to create a world where they are always affirmed.
Eddie Capparucci LPC • Going Deeper: How the Inner Child Impacts Your Sexual Addiction
But to only focus on redirecting or eliminating unhealthy behaviors misses the mark of what actually needs to be addressed: the inner person. More specifically, the inner child.
Eddie Capparucci LPC • Going Deeper: How the Inner Child Impacts Your Sexual Addiction
Instead, they use sex as a self-soothing tool that produces an adrenaline rush powerful enough to block out troubling emotional distresses.
Eddie Capparucci LPC • Going Deeper: How the Inner Child Impacts Your Sexual Addiction
Sexual addiction is not about sex. It is the result of a man’s inability to identify and process emotional pain and distress.
Eddie Capparucci LPC • Going Deeper: How the Inner Child Impacts Your Sexual Addiction
Stop running away from the emotional pain impacting your inner child and instead learn to sit with hurtful emotions.
Eddie Capparucci LPC • Going Deeper: How the Inner Child Impacts Your Sexual Addiction
The conquerors of sexual addictions are regularly involved in analyzing their current emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual state. Rather than be reactive, they learn to become mindful and responsive in trying circumstances, which helps them realize when their inner children are activated.
Eddie Capparucci LPC • Going Deeper: How the Inner Child Impacts Your Sexual Addiction
But worst of all, they cannot determine what others are feeling beyond secondary emotions. They cannot empathize and seek out additional information from others who are expressing their feelings. Instead, they seek to shut down the individual, fix their problem, or dismiss them — all to reduce their own anxiety.
Eddie Capparucci LPC • Going Deeper: How the Inner Child Impacts Your Sexual Addiction
Our inner child doesn’t think about others’ feelings or the consequence of his actions.