Ep. 46 Healing From Sex Addiction with Staci Sprout
Recovering From Reality
Dear Media, Alexis Haines
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, I am joined by psychotherapist, Staci Sprout. Staci works with people healing from sex and love addictions, and came to this work through her own recovery. She works with people of all genders who are struggling with harmful sexual behaviors and relationships, and supports them in healing. During this chat, we dive into her journey healing from sex addiction and joining a 12 step recovery program, how to navigate sexual abuse and trauma, and ways we can foster our own healing.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a deer media production. |
| 0:07.5 | Hey, this is Alexis Haines and welcome to Recovering from Reality, |
| 0:11.6 | where I illuminate the messy and magical path of coming home to yourself. |
| 0:16.1 | Whether you're on the road to recovery, seeking self-care techniques for surviving the |
| 0:20.5 | capitalist machine, or just need a moment to remember that you're not alone in your loneliness, |
| 0:26.2 | we're serving up the ultimate truth. Your challenges don't define you, how you deal with them does. |
| 0:33.0 | So are you ready to recover from reality? |
| 0:39.6 | Very complicated question for sexual abuse survivors, because I'll say for myself for an example, |
| 0:45.6 | I felt safe objectifying and being objectified. I felt safe going to clubs. I felt safe having |
| 0:53.3 | sexual experiences that didn't involve great intimacy and truth and connection, |
| 0:59.0 | because that's how I survived my abuse was developing this sense of mastery if you would |
| 1:06.3 | around being, it would be impossible for someone to abuse me. I'm unabuseable because I can do |
| 1:14.5 | anything. In today's episode, we are sitting down with Stacey Sprout. Stacey is a licensed |
| 1:21.4 | psychotherapist. She's an author and publisher with over 20 years of experience as a therapist |
| 1:26.7 | and social worker and a variety of settings. From community, mental health, and hospitals to a private |
| 1:32.0 | clinical practice, Stacey is a certified sex addiction therapist, and since 2006 has dedicated |
| 1:39.1 | her practice to helping individuals, groups, and couples and recovery from sex and relationship |
| 1:44.1 | addictions. Stacey is coming on to talk about her book, Naked in Public, and Memor of Recovery |
| 1:50.9 | from Sex Addiction and Other Temporary Insanities. I'm going to give you guys fair warning. Obviously, |
| 1:57.5 | this podcast we dive into all different types of trauma, but in this episode, we are talking about |
| 2:04.2 | early childhood sexual abuse. Here is a trigger warning. I don't want anybody to walk away from this |
| 2:12.5 | feeling anxious or triggered in any way. I'm giving everybody fair warning that in this episode |
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