Managing your sobriety is about Risk Management. Risk Managing your Triggers. Just like many projects may include a discussion about possible risks, they go on to consider what to do if those risks manifest. So too, for you, where your aim is to achieve a lifetime of sobriety.
You want to keep those old neural pathways shut down and not reactivate or re-open them by constant merry-go-round relapses and sometimes, binges. It begins with "Identifying" and "knowing" your Triggers. Anticipate them and have a plan of action for addressing them.
Carolyn Spring's articles are so good and helpful. They come to you from a whole different field of Triggers, outside of the foreseeable Sex, Porn, Love addiction patterns. You can learn from her, about the underlying "sameness" of Triggers and action you can take, no matter what may be the underlying recovery area in your life. Take a look at her links:
Managing Triggers: Part one - Why Triggers are nothing to be ashamed of
https://www.carolynspring.com/blog/managing-triggers-part-one-why-triggers-are-nothing-to-be-ashamed-of/
and also: https://www.pods-online.org.uk
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Gary McFarlane (BA, LLM, Dip, Certs) is a Relate trained and experienced Relationship counsellor, Mediator and undertakes Sex Therapy & Sex Addiction treatment. He is also a member of the National Counselling Society, the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity (ATSAC), stopSO, and an Accredited member of the Assoc of Christian Counsellors. He also practices EMDR (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) as an Accredited EMDR Practitioner, working with clients globally via secure webcam.
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