Stock your toolbox – Sex and Relationship Therapy

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The addict must shape the tools of recovery. Thereafter, tools will shape them.

As recovering sex and porn addicts, we know that the triggers that lead to our addictive behaviors are inevitable. Therefore, it is vital that we have a recovery-focused toolkit that we can leverage in times of crisis. After all, implementing one or more healthy coping mechanisms (recovery tools) is the only consistently effective way to shorten the addiction cycle. As the English poet George Herbert once wrote: “Don’t wait; the time is never just right. Start where you are, work with whatever tools you have at your disposal, and you’ll discover more as you go. Good tool.”

today’s task
Lists the items in the recovery toolbox. Which tools do you use most? Which tools are underutilized? What tools would you like to add?