The Recovered Sex and Porn Addict: Stefanos Sifandos

Jillian on Love

QCODE Media

Mental Health, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Today, Stefanos Sifandos joins Jillian to unpack the personal journey that led him to confront and heal his patterns of sex addiction and emotional avoidance. He shares openly about the trauma beneath compulsive behaviors, how shame thrives in secrecy, and why true freedom is found through inner work and relational honesty. Together, they explore how unresolved childhood wounds shape adult intimacy, and what it takes to break the cycle. Book one-on-one coaching with Stefanos, http://www.coachwithstef.com/ Join my community and membership, The Conscious Woman Record and submit your relationship question for Jillian at https://askjillian.com/ Order Jillian's book It Begins with You: The 9 Hard Truths About Love That Will Change Your Life at https://www.jillianturecki.com/book ~~ Follow the show on: Instagram: @jillianonlove Email the show at [email protected] Subscribe to Jillian on Love+ on Apple Podcasts or Patreon ~~ Follow Jillian Turecki on: Instagram: @jillianturecki TikTok: @jillian.turecki X: @JillianTurecki Visit her website at jillianturecki.com ~~ Jillian On Love is brought to you by QCODE. To advertise on the show, contact us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sex addiction, porn addiction, chronic cheating, nervous system dysregulation, trauma.
0:15.0	What do you think of when I say those words? Because in today's episode of Jillian on Love, I have a very special guest,
0:22.4	Stephanos Sifandos. He is a relationship coach, a somatic healer, an entrepreneur, and he focuses
0:30.6	on conscious relationships and healing trauma. He was a former sex addict, porn addict, chronic cheater, a lot of trauma that he didn't
0:44.3	know how to process and how to work with. And today he is successfully married. He is a father
0:51.3	and has a very thriving career helping others overcome their hardship.
0:57.9	And so this is a very vulnerable and honest conversation.
1:04.5	It is the window into the mind of someone who endured a lot of pain and pain that showed up in his romantic relationships
1:15.9	and how he was able to overcome, to heal, and to completely change his life.
1:24.4	I think this is going to be one of the more riveting and interesting conversations that you've listened to in a long time.
1:35.3	And I can't wait for you to listen, honestly.
1:39.3	So without further ado, our conversation.
1:43.5	Stephanos, welcome to the show.
1:45.4	I'm very happy to be here.
1:47.0	I'm very excited to speak to you.
1:49.2	If I may, I kind of want to go right into it and deep into it.
1:55.8	Kind of start with a bang.
1:58.5	You have spoken in the past transparently about healing sex addiction and avoidance.
2:09.0	My question to you is, what is sex addiction? And then the second part is how did you heal that?
2:20.5	So for me personally, the compulsion around sex, around novelty and variety around
2:30.8	stimulating, it's firstly is very complex, I think it is, meaning that it's layered.
2:37.6	Yeah, yeah, it's not just, it's biological, it's physiological, it's based so much on my
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