Rock Bottom Group - Hadassa D Shares

The Daily Reprieve

This episode of 'The Daily Reprieve' podcast features an riveting personal account of the speaker's struggle with sex addiction, emphasizing on their experience with Step One of the 12-Step recovery program and what it means to hit rock bottom. Rather than focusing on the sensational examples of addictive behaviour, the speaker demonstrates how her addiction controlled her life by instilling incessant, lustful fantasies which dictated her actions and preoccupied her thoughts.

Through an introspective journey into her addiction and subsequent recovery, she discusses the fine line between leading a seemingly 'normal' life, while silently grappling with the dissonance between perception and reality. Moreover, the episode delineates the essence of lust, its pervasive nature, impact on one's psyche, and relationship dynamics.

The speaker imparts her understanding of Tradition Three and encourages others who may be downplaying their own addiction due to comparative analysis with seemingly 'worse' stories. She concludes by emphasizing the significance of admitting to powerlessness over multiple facets of life, and the path to recovery by surrendering control to a Higher Power.

Listen to this powerful personal narrative to gain insights into the subtle complexities of sex addiction, the insidious nature of lust, and the possibility for renewal through honest self-reflection and acceptance.