The Storm Writer Podcast

The Storm Writer

I'm an artist, writer, and educator and I write about lots of topics. I like to interweave science fiction, psychology, culture and history to develop improved understandings of the world around me. I also write about my life and experiences and that's a whole 'nother thing by itself. thestormwriter.substack.com

  1. Mar 8

    Episode 12. Snorting the Net.

    Unfortunately, our lay psychology is full of myth. Nowadays, when it comes understanding the mind, we have more superstitions than the pagans and animists in ancient times. In my 40’s, one of my deepest concerns is the fear that instead of solving the problems of human psychology, we’re just adding to the confusion with trending false beliefs. The irony is that we have more information at our fingertips than we’ve ever had before, and yet, authentic information from primary sources is harder and harder to find. For this reason I recorded this episode. I spoke in great detail about sex addiction, and chemical mechanics of the sex addict’s mind. I’m a primary source— I’ve spent a lot of time and brain power analyzing this issue over the course of my life on this planet, and in addition, I’m a witness. I’m a witness to my own actions and mistakes, and to the lives and stories of hundreds of sex addicts. I’ve sat in thousands of sex addiction meetings and I’ve heard tens of thousands of stories from people with the same affliction. What bothers me most is when I come upon psychologists who don’t believe sex addiction is real or that porn can be addictive. The sad truth is that I’ve been sat in the office chairs of therapists who claimed to know and be able to treat sex addiction, but still knew significantly less about it and its recovery than myself. This is because I, as recovering addict, lived and breathed this stuff for more than 15 years, even as I went through the hardest years in my life. I dare say that the program got me through it. As you know, I’m an visual artist, but I’m much more than that. I have things to say about topics which don’t quite fit with my being as an artist or a vessel of inspiration. I possess an analytical, didactic side, that needs to express itself as well. So in this episode I tried to fit everything I know about sex addiction, and what motivates it. If this podcast is helpful to you, please share it with others. At the end of the day it’s helpful to remember this. Someone you know and love is a sex and love addict, whether you know it or not. - the storm writer Get full access to The Storm Writer at thestormwriter.substack.com/subscribe

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I'm an artist, writer, and educator and I write about lots of topics. I like to interweave science fiction, psychology, culture and history to develop improved understandings of the world around me. I also write about my life and experiences and that's a whole 'nother thing by itself. thestormwriter.substack.com