Facing the Shadow
Starting Sexual and Relationship Recovery
by Patrick Carnes
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For all addicts, a moment comes when they realize they have a problem. There is sudden clarity?the insight that life has become unmanageable. That moment, however, is fragile. It is easily lost to craving and denial. People struggling with sex addiction find the old refrains creeping back into their thinking: My situation is different. . . . This w...
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