Hey everyone! Welcome to our next lecture. In this lecture I’m going to give you a brief outline on what you can expect in this course.
Before we start with that I want to talk about something you might all be wondering. What makes me qualified to teach a sex, porn, and masturbation addiction course?
Well for starters, have an education that focuses on addiction. I have an Associates Degree in Chemical Dependency, A Bachelors degree in counseling with an emphasis on Chemical dependency, substance abuse and addiction and a masters degree in psychology.
When I was working in an outpatient treatment center, we would have clients who struggled with multiple addictions, many of them would struggle with porn addiction. During my one on one sessions we would talk about it but most of my clients were not comfortable talking about it during group sessions. I started to dig a little deeper into why they were feeling such fear and most of the time it stemmed from shame and embarrassment. I found it fascinating that my clients were okay sharing about their struggles with alcohol or other substances but when it came to behavior addictions like porn, masturbation or sex, it was a no go. My clients felt judged and less than. They told me they felt like other people would look at them and be like so you’re over there addicted to masturbation while I’m struggling with a heroin addiction, and then scoff.
It was like no matter how comfortable I tried to make group sessions, my clients would not budge. So I started asking questions about what they felt they needed in order to succeed. What kind of support would be best and the answers varied from being able to stay anonymous to interacting with others who had similar struggles.
When I started my business which offers people who struggle with addiction a way to get support from home, in an online setting, I knew it was going to be important to have a course that focused on porn addiction. Little did I know, that would be my most successful course. And while porn addiction is and always will be an addiction that people struggle with, it became clear that sometimes the addiction is more than just being addicted to porn. Sometimes people struggle with porn addiction, sex addiction, and or masturbation addiction.
There are clear differences between the three but it’s clear that there are common links between them. So you may be someone who struggles with just porn, sex, or a masturbation addiction or someone who struggles with two of three for example you could have a sex and porn addiction or a porn and masturbation addiction or a sex and masturbation addiction or all three. Like, everything related to addiction there’s a spectrum and your addiction is unique to you. So let’s talk about what we’ll cover in this course.
Documenting your journey is going to be a very important part to this course. There are two ways you can do this. 1. You can write in a journal or 2. You can answer the questions after each lecture. It doesn’t matter which one you choose as long as you make sure you do it. It’s a very important part of this course.
This course isn’t just about kicking an addiction. This is a complete lifestyle change.
So that’s what we’ll cover, Let’s get started now and in our next lecture we’ll talk about the three addictions in detail so you can get a better understanding of where on that spectrum you may fall.