Black and White Thinking
Organizing life into such categories sometimes works, but as we all know life gets complicated and nuanced and can’t always fit into either/or. When these complicated parts of life get forced into either/or categories, results can get weird, even destructive.
Sex and Shut Down: Sex Addiction and the Nervous System, Part 3
Men with a sexual addiction use sex, pornography and masturbation to pull themselves out of that pit, that state of dysregulation, that feeling of hopelessness, exhaustion and shut down. This pattern gets wired in the brain.
Sex Addiction and the Nervous System, Part 1: Ventral Vagal
When your nervous system deems your surroundings safe, you move about life with relative ease, getting things done, interacting with people as you need and want to, and feeling pretty good overall.