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Category Archives: Addiction
Addiction Is A Progressive Terminal Disease
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12 Step Programs For Sex Addiction
From last Monday night’s show: Rabbs: How’s it going with the 12-step program? Luke: “It’s like a crash course in reality. You get out of your fantasies and into reality. I’m noticing that I am slowly rewiring my brain. Without … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Personal, R. Rabbs
Tagged hole in your soul, internet pornography, math homework, rabbs, sex addiction, step meetings
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12-Step Meetings Were My Idea
I’ve never had a therapist recommend I go to 12-step meetings. They’ve been my idea. Yes, I saw Fight Club, but that didn’t spur me to go to 12-step meetings. I never considered it until about two months ago when … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Personal
Tagged orthodox judaism, patrick carnes, psycho therapist, psycho therapy, sex addict, sex addiction
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What If I’m Getting Close When It Comes Time For My Sex Addiction Meeting?
I see myself exploring the great indoors with a comely lass. We’re doing writing exercises and mutually supporting each other’s literary endeavors. We might even drink some Manischevitz, blow the shofar and discuss which yeshiva to send our kids. Then … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Personal
Tagged comely lass, horns of a dilemma, literary endeavors, sex addiction, writing exercises
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A Torah Perspective On Sex Addiction
From Monday night’s show: Rabbi: “Are you just going there to meet chicks?” Luke: “God forbid. I’m not going there because I have behaviors out of control. I haven’t had sex in almost a year and a half.” Rabbi: “With … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Personal, R. Rabbs
Tagged phony baloney, sex addict, sex addiction, sex addicts, sexual desire, torah perspective
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Three Twelve-Step Meetings And I’m A Changed Man
I’m stunned by how a few sex addiction meetings have affected me. I don’t walk around with the predatory fantasies that normally afflict me. Please know that these are fantasies only! I don’t act them out. I’m a good Orthodox … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Personal, Sex
Tagged bad man, davening, fantasy life, sex addiction, step meetings, torah study
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Sex Addicts Smackdown
So, you’re a sex addict. Where do you turn for help? Do you just read lukeford.net every day and go from there to shul? Or do you want to work a program? Do you want a 12-step program? Well, which … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction
Tagged addiction therapy, der spiegel, liberal attitudes, sex addict, sex addiction, sexual recovery plan, sexual sobriety, sexual temptation
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Are You A Sex And Love Addict?
Check out these 40 questions. I answered yes to about 35 of them. But I don’t have a problem! I’m all under control. No hole in my soul! Not a big one anyway.
Intimacy Vs. Eroticized Rage
After he described his love life, his therapist asked, “Have you heard of the term eroticized rage?” “No,” he said, “but that rings true. I had a girlfriend, Holly, who said to me, ‘Take out all your rage at women … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Eroticized Rage, Personal, Sex
Tagged behavioral dimensions, robert stoller, sexual intercourse, social disapproval, social inhibitions, social injustices
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