Facing…Sexual and Relationship Integrity
Facing...Sexual and Relationship Integrity is an educational and support group for people who:
Have engaged in sexual behavior that damages important relationships
Want to stop engaging in certain sexual behaviors
Want relapse prevention skills
Want to integrate the 30 Task Model into their personal recovery
Are concerned about sex addiction
Using Patrick Carnes’ groundbreaking book Facing The Shadow group members will engage in focused skill building through completing specific exercises that all link together to form a cohesive whole toward sexual and relationship integrity.
Here are some of the exercises group members will complete:
Learn 14 ways to distort reality
Inventory 14 ways to distort reality
Practice accountability and empathy
Learn different ways to define sex addiction
Chart and evaluate your own personal addictive cycle
Practice multiple relapse prevention skills
Learn how to engage a culture of support
Learn about sexual fantasy and how to replace addictive sexual fantasy with healthy sexual fantasy.
Learn and apply neuropathways of addiction
Identify your sexual arousal template, addictive sexual matrix, and healthy sexual matrix
People who complete all of the Facing...Sexual and Relationship Integrity modules will get focused help in growing in the following life skills:
Accept and utilize confrontation
Understand self-delusion and denial
Knowing and applying information on addictive illness to personal life
Understand sexually compulsive patterns
Discern the difference between controllable and non-controllable events
Set and utilize boundaries
Manage life without dysfunctional sexual behavior
Awareness of dysfunctional arousal patterns
Understand neuropathway interaction
Maintain a healthy support system
Facing...Sexual and Relationship Integrity will have three distinct but connected modules:
