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Recovery, Healing & the Holidays—Part One: Preparing for and Managing Triggers
The holidays are a time for MAJOR EMOTIONAL TRIGGERS—good and bad. In fact the Holidays are intended and designed to elicit intense...
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Dec 1, 20201 min read


Where Relationship Expectations Collide with Individual Boundaries
It's very natural and legitimate to have certain expectations in our marriage relationship. And we NEED healthy boundaries in order to...
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Nov 24, 20201 min read


The "Unholy Triad" that can Decimate Your Marriage!
In their own addictions, recoveries and healing, and working with people all over the world, Mark and Steve have come to understand an...
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Nov 17, 20201 min read


What Does it Really mean to "Man–Up"?
With so many dominant influences from Hollywood, the mainstream media, pornography and the role models we were raised with, there's a LOT...
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Nov 10, 20201 min read


How We Get Stuck in our Pain . . . and How to Heal and Move Forward
In this episode, Mark and Steve come from a very heart-felt place in speaking to the women who may find themselves "stuck in the pain of...
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Nov 3, 20201 min read


Is there a Place for "Sexual Entitlement" in a Healthy Marriage Relationship?
Mark and Steve produced this episode in response to a PBSE listener's question— Hi Guys! Would it be possible to talk about entitlement...
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Oct 27, 20201 min read


If You Don't Have Honesty—You Don't Have Much
This episode starts with Mark and Steve getting super raw about how lying was a big part of their addiction years and early recovery. - ...
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Oct 20, 20201 min read


Are YOU Choosing Your Life . . . OR . . . is "IT" Choosing You?
Mark and Steve get personal and talk about how, for much of their lives, they lived in "victim mode" and ran around spouting off cliches...
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Oct 13, 20201 min read


In Recovery & Healing—Is God Your Problem or Your Solution?
In this episode, Mark and Steve talk raw and real about their personal "God journeys"—how God operated in their lives BEFORE recovery and...
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Oct 6, 20201 min read


Hey, we're doing well, so we can let up on our Boundaries—Right?
When things have been going well for awhile in addiction recovery and betrayal trauma healing, there can be a temptation to relax the...
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Sep 29, 20201 min read


I’m Not Sexually Attracted to My Partner—Are We Done?
We live in a culture that can easily tend to make physical/sexual attraction the "be all, end all," in marriage relationships. In this...
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Sep 23, 20201 min read


How to Have DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS that bring TRUE CONNECTION!
Our most DIFFICULT conversations can also be the most CONNECTING! In this episode, Mark and Steve get raw and real about WHY we avoid...
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Sep 15, 20201 min read


How Do We Become Trapped in a "Marriage Crisis" and Can We Ever Come Back Together?
Porn addiction, Betrayal Trauma and other challenges can plunge us hopelessly into a seemingly perpetual pattern of Negative Relationship...
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Sep 8, 20201 min read


How "Pain Avoidance" feeds Addiction & Betrayal Trauma!
It's natural to avoid pain--that protection mechanism is built directly into the human brain. BUT, "pain avoidance" often creates and...
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Sep 1, 20201 min read


Separating "Attraction" from the "Addiction"—Where are the Boundaries?
In this episode, Mark and Steve address the questions and concerns of one of the PBSE podcast listeners. As the spouse of an addict in...
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Aug 25, 20201 min read


Porn Addiction Relapse—the Fallout and Breaking the Addiction Cycle
What happens when there is a "Pornography Addiction Relapse"? The Fallout of Relapse— For the Addict: Hopelessness, shame, resignation,...
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Aug 18, 20201 min read


Refuse to Be a "Victim"—"Let Go" and Allow Her to Heal from Betrayal Trauma!
- Learn how to “let go” of Your Spouse’s Healing. - Instead of focusing on what she is or is not doing—put all your energy into YOUR...
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Aug 11, 20201 min read


Breaking Free from the "Victim Trap" of His Porn Addiction!
Addiction and Betrayal Trauma can easily plunge us into the "Victim Trap"! In this dark place, it is nearly impossible to progress on our...
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Aug 4, 20201 min read


How Do I Regain Her Trust and How Do I Trust Her?
Two of the BIG questions we hear a LOT from recovering porn/sex addicts is: "How do I get her to trust me again?" and "How do I trust...
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Jul 28, 20201 min read


How Do I Ever TRUST my Porn/Sex Addicted Spouse Again?
Discovering your spouse has a porn/sex addiction triggers Betrayal Trauma and SHATTERS trust! HOW can you ever get to the place where you...
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Jul 21, 20201 min read
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