When is it Time to “Shake Up” Your Recovery and Healing?
Your recovery and healing are always at risk of stagnation, burnout, boredom, overwhelm, relapse and other potential "disrupters." In...
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Mark & Steve
Apr 27, 20211 min read
How Inadequate Self-Care Sabotages Your Recovery and Healing!
Mark and Steve discuss why Self-Care is SO crucial to overcoming porn addiction, healing from betrayal trauma and mending your marriage....
Mark & Steve
Apr 20, 20211 min read
The Wall Between Betrayal Trauma and Healing/Connection
In Episode 66, Mark and Steve explored the walls an addict spouse often throws up in defense against his betrayal-trauma-suffering spouse...
Mark & Steve
Apr 13, 20211 min read
The WALL Between Conflict and Connection
A BIG part of beginning to heal a marriage marred by pornography addiction, is for the addict spouse to provide a SAFE space for the...
Mark & Steve
Apr 6, 20211 min read
How Can a Struggling Couple Come Out of "Relationship Limbo"?
In this episode, Mark and Steve respond to a recent email from a listener— “I’d like to know how is it that your wives were willing and...
Mark & Steve
Mar 30, 20211 min read
Can I Ever Go Back to Porn?
In this episode, Mark and Steve openly address a common issue they faced in their own recoveries, and one they see often with their...
Mark & Steve
Mar 23, 20211 min read
What it Takes to SUCCEED in Recovery and Healing!
In this episode, Mark and Steve give listeners a window into what they've learned from their own recoveries and what they've experienced...
Mark & Steve
Mar 16, 20211 min read
Defining "Slips" and "Relapses"
When a couple is working together through addiction recovery and healing betrayal trauma, it can be VERY difficult to understand the...
Mark & Steve
Mar 9, 20211 min read
Where is the line between “loving” someone and “trusting” them?
In this episode, Mark and Steve address a PBSE listener's heart-felt dilemma. After discovering her spouse's addiction to porn and...
Mark & Steve
Mar 2, 20212 min read
Spiritual Safety and Sexual Intimacy: You Can Have Both!
In this episode, Mark and Steve address a questions submitted by a listener— "Can you discuss the dynamic of being the spouse of an...
Mark & Steve
Feb 23, 20212 min read
Is it "OK" to "Offend" Your Partner?
In this episode, Mark and Steve address some very poignant questions submitted by a listener: "What do you do when the proof is in the...
Mark & Steve
Feb 16, 20211 min read
Great! He’s in Recovery . . . but What is He Thinking?
In this episode, Mark and Steve address a recent question by a listener—a very honest, legitimate, excellent question— "Hi there, my...
Mark & Steve
Feb 9, 20211 min read
Why Would the Man Who Loves Me, "Gaslight" Me?!
In this episode, Mark and Steve talk raw and open about an extremely destructive behavior that porn addicts engage in with their...
Mark & Steve
Feb 2, 20211 min read
What Does it Take to Get "SERIOUS" about Real Change?
In this episode Mark and Steve speak openly about what it took for them to get to the rock bottom place where they were ready to start...
Mark & Steve
Jan 26, 20211 min read
The Addict's Journey from Escape & Avoidance to Authenticity & Transparency
It has been said, "We are only as sick as our secrets." Another way of coming at this would be: "Living in secrecy keeps our addiction...
Mark & Steve
Jan 19, 20211 min read
How to Navigate Mental Illness AND Addiction/Betrayal Trauma
Mental illness and addiction, as well as betrayal trauma, can be parallel struggles! And it can be very difficult to understand where one...
Mark & Steve
Jan 12, 20211 min read
Should We Hide Sex Addiction and Betrayal Trauma From Our Kids?
It's hard enough navigating through porn/sex addiction and betrayal trauma as adults! But what happens when we're raising kids at the...
Mark & Steve
Jan 5, 20211 min read
How to be Emotionally Healthy as an Individual and Couple in 2021
We're all SO glad 2020 is over! In fact, we should all receive a t-shirt that reads, "I Survived 2020!" And we're all hoping 2021 will be...
Mark & Steve
Dec 29, 20201 min read
Ditch the “New Year’s Resolution" BS—it doesn’t work!
Can you believe it—it's a NEW YEAR! And it's that infamous time again--New Year's Resolutions! In this episode Mark and Steve get real...
Mark & Steve
Dec 22, 20201 min read
Learning from Mark & Steve's "Recovery Ghosts of Christmas Past"
This episode is a kind of "Christmas gift" from Mark and Steve to their listeners. They talk raw and open about how too many Christmas...
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