Recovery, Healing & the Holidays—Part Three: Finding Serenity in the Midst of Family "Stuff"
During the holidays, "families" can be both an opportunity AND a challenge! Family interactions can support us on our paths of recovery...
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Mark & Steve
Dec 8, 20201 min read
Recovery, Healing & the Holidays—Par Two: "Self Care? Forget that! It's the Holidays, Bro!"
It's SO easy to "go off the self-care rails" during the Holidays! If we're not careful, we can tend to use as an excuse for laziness,...
Mark & Steve
Dec 1, 20201 min read
Recovery, Healing & the Holidays—Part One: Preparing for and Managing Triggers
The holidays are a time for MAJOR EMOTIONAL TRIGGERS—good and bad. In fact the Holidays are intended and designed to elicit intense...
Mark & Steve
Nov 24, 20201 min read
Where Relationship Expectations Collide with Individual Boundaries
It's very natural and legitimate to have certain expectations in our marriage relationship. And we NEED healthy boundaries in order to...
Mark & Steve
Nov 17, 20201 min read
The "Unholy Triad" that can Decimate Your Marriage!
In their own addictions, recoveries and healing, and working with people all over the world, Mark and Steve have come to understand an...
Mark & Steve
Nov 10, 20201 min read
What Does it Really mean to "Man–Up"?
With so many dominant influences from Hollywood, the mainstream media, pornography and the role models we were raised with, there's a LOT...
Mark & Steve
Nov 3, 20201 min read
How We Get Stuck in our Pain . . . and How to Heal and Move Forward
In this episode, Mark and Steve come from a very heart-felt place in speaking to the women who may find themselves "stuck in the pain of...
Mark & Steve
Oct 27, 20201 min read
Is there a Place for "Sexual Entitlement" in a Healthy Marriage Relationship?
Mark and Steve produced this episode in response to a PBSE listener's question— Hi Guys! Would it be possible to talk about entitlement...
Mark & Steve
Oct 20, 20201 min read
If You Don't Have Honesty—You Don't Have Much
This episode starts with Mark and Steve getting super raw about how lying was a big part of their addiction years and early recovery. - ...
Mark & Steve
Oct 13, 20201 min read
Are YOU Choosing Your Life . . . OR . . . is "IT" Choosing You?
Mark and Steve get personal and talk about how, for much of their lives, they lived in "victim mode" and ran around spouting off cliches...
Mark & Steve
Oct 6, 20201 min read
In Recovery & Healing—Is God Your Problem or Your Solution?
In this episode, Mark and Steve talk raw and real about their personal "God journeys"—how God operated in their lives BEFORE recovery and...
Mark & Steve
Sep 29, 20201 min read
Hey, we're doing well, so we can let up on our Boundaries—Right?
When things have been going well for awhile in addiction recovery and betrayal trauma healing, there can be a temptation to relax the...
Mark & Steve
Sep 23, 20201 min read
I’m Not Sexually Attracted to My Partner—Are We Done?
We live in a culture that can easily tend to make physical/sexual attraction the "be all, end all," in marriage relationships. In this...
Mark & Steve
Sep 15, 20201 min read
How to Have DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS that bring TRUE CONNECTION!
Our most DIFFICULT conversations can also be the most CONNECTING! In this episode, Mark and Steve get raw and real about WHY we avoid...
Mark & Steve
Sep 8, 20201 min read
How Do We Become Trapped in a "Marriage Crisis" and Can We Ever Come Back Together?
Porn addiction, Betrayal Trauma and other challenges can plunge us hopelessly into a seemingly perpetual pattern of Negative Relationship...
Mark & Steve
Sep 1, 20201 min read
How "Pain Avoidance" feeds Addiction & Betrayal Trauma!
It's natural to avoid pain--that protection mechanism is built directly into the human brain. BUT, "pain avoidance" often creates and...
Mark & Steve
Aug 25, 20201 min read
Separating "Attraction" from the "Addiction"—Where are the Boundaries?
In this episode, Mark and Steve address the questions and concerns of one of the PBSE podcast listeners. As the spouse of an addict in...
Mark & Steve
Aug 18, 20201 min read
Porn Addiction Relapse—the Fallout and Breaking the Addiction Cycle
What happens when there is a "Pornography Addiction Relapse"? The Fallout of Relapse— For the Addict: Hopelessness, shame, resignation,...
Mark & Steve
Aug 11, 20201 min read
Refuse to Be a "Victim"—"Let Go" and Allow Her to Heal from Betrayal Trauma!
- Learn how to “let go” of Your Spouse’s Healing. - Instead of focusing on what she is or is not doing—put all your energy into YOUR...
Mark & Steve
Aug 4, 20201 min read
Breaking Free from the "Victim Trap" of His Porn Addiction!
Addiction and Betrayal Trauma can easily plunge us into the "Victim Trap"! In this dark place, it is nearly impossible to progress on our...
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