277: Healing from Addiction by Embracing the Inner Child with Lacy Bentley & Heather Cronemiller
The Addicted Mind Podcast
Duane Osterlind, LMFT
4.7 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Struggling with love and sex addiction can feel like an isolating battle, but this recent conversation with Lacy Bentley and Heather Cronemiller casts a ray of hope on this often-shadowed topic. Lacy, a relationship and recovery coach, and Heather, a seasoned therapist, join Duane to shed light on their personal journeys and their book, "Going Deeper for Women: How the Inner Child Impacts Your Love and Sex Addiction." Their stories are a testament to the power of understanding the inner child in forging a path to recovery. By intertwining their professional insights with the raw reality of their experiences, they offer listeners an intimate look at overcoming addictive behaviors in relationships.
Attachment wounds can create a labyrinth of confusion in our adult lives, often surfacing unexpectedly in the therapeutic setting as erotic transference. Lacy and Heather guide us through understanding attachment styles – secure, anxious, avoidant, disorganized – and their influence on our relationships. This discussion navigates the delicate terrain of arousal, the misinterpretation of kindness, and the critical role of a therapist's boundaries. It's an exploration of the human craving for connection juxtaposed with the fear of intimacy, offering a compass for those seeking to understand the complicated dance of closeness and retreat.
In this episode, you will hear:
- Exploring inner child impacts on addiction
- Love and sex addiction gender differences
- Understanding attachment in therapy
- Understanding the Inner Child Model
- Systemic disempowerment in gender and culture
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Supporting Resources:
Going Deeper for Women: How the Inner Child Impacts Your Love and Sex Addiction: https://www.amazon.com/Going-Deeper-Women-Impacts-Addiction/dp/B0CQB42TR1
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Addicted Mind podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | My name is Dwayne Austerlund. I'm your host and we are on to another episode. |
| 0:15.6 | Today I have two guests, Lacey Bentley and Heather Croneiller. They are authors of the new book, Going |
| 0:23.7 | Deeper for Women, How the Inner Child Impacts Your Love and Sex Addiction. Lacey is a woman's |
| 0:30.4 | relationship and recovery coach, author, an adult educator. She has been helping women |
| 0:35.6 | overcome addictive behaviors since 2000. Her love addiction |
| 0:40.0 | recovery journey began in mid-2010 with 12 steps and continues as she helps other women |
| 0:46.7 | rebuild their lives. She also wrote Addicted to Love in 2018 and was a guest on the |
| 0:54.1 | Addicted Mind episode number 57 where she talks about |
| 0:57.8 | that book. So you can definitely check out that episode as well, episode 57. |
| 1:02.8 | And Heather Kronmiller is a licensed independent clinical social worker, certified sex addiction |
| 1:08.8 | therapist with a wealth of experience spanning over a decade in the |
| 1:13.2 | mental health field in her Minnesota-based private practice, Quill Miller counseling. |
| 1:18.1 | Heather specializes in guiding individuals through the challenging journey of overcoming |
| 1:22.7 | sex and love addiction. |
| 1:23.9 | She probably describes herself as a mindfulness nerd, consistently incorporating |
| 1:29.7 | mindfulness and compassion-focused interventions to empower her clients on their healing journey. |
| 1:36.8 | And today, Lacey and Heather are going to share their stories of how they wrote this book, but also how they got to the place |
| 1:46.7 | of writing this book and knowing each other and working together to create this book for |
| 1:53.1 | women out there who are struggling with love and sex addiction. You can tell that both of them |
| 1:58.6 | are incredibly passionate about the work they do and committed |
| 2:03.8 | to helping the people they encounter in their work. |
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