Help for the Porn-Addicted Christian ArticlesBy The Ranch TNMay 30, 2017Why would Christians need help for porn addiction? On the surface, it would seem this issue, affecting untold numbers of men and women, wouldn’t even be a concern for those who are biblically called to live a life of sexual purity. Yet the statistics paint a very different picture. Unfortunately, when it comes to porn…
African American Veterans Hit Hard by PTSD ArticlesBy The Ranch TNMay 26, 2017Post-traumatic stress disorder is sadly common among veterans, and the problem is especially acute in the African American veteran population. Studies breaking down the incidence of PTSD by race and ethnicity are still rare among those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the Vietnam-era generation has been studied extensively, and this work has confirmed…
Are You in Love With a Borderline Personality? ArticlesBy The Ranch TNMay 25, 2017Understanding love addiction is tricky. It isn’t easy to recognize in yourself because it seems like you are in love with love or deeply in love with your partner, and what’s wrong with that? Love addiction is an unhealthy obsession with love that can cause negative consequences in various aspects of your life. One way…
Uncommon Therapies to Get You Out of a Rut ArticlesBy The Ranch TNMay 24, 2017Do you ever feel like you’re not making progress in therapy? Maybe you return with the same concerns every few weeks and can’t seem to move past them. Perhaps you feel uninspired by your therapist or are tired of talking things over all the time. This “therapy rut” is a frustrating place to be. You…
How Love Addiction Keeps You From Finding True Love ArticlesBy The Ranch TNMay 22, 2017 Love addiction is a tricky thing. You can convince yourself that you just love love. But if your love of love, romance, dating and a bad partner start to interfere with your life, you have to admit that you have a problem. Perhaps the saddest thing about having a love addiction is that it…
Efforts to Avoid Porn Can Actually Promote Cybersex Addiction ArticlesBy The Ranch TNMay 19, 2017Recent evidence from a team of German scientists indicates that purposeful attempts to avoid pornographic material on the Internet can potentially promote the onset of cybersex addiction, just like a tendency to actively seek out pornographic material. People with cybersex addiction have a form of behavioral addiction centered on the use of modern Internet technology…
PTSD and Personal Trauma Taught Me How to Help Others Articles, From Our Experts>TennesseeBy The Ranch TNMay 18, 2017By Timothy L. Hook, LMSW, CSAT-C, Primary Therapist at The Ranch Trauma and PTSD can devastate individuals. It also pulls families apart. I know this all too well, not just as a counselor at The Ranch, but as someone who’s been exposed to it through childhood trauma and military deployments. You’d think that 14 deployments…
Deception and Control Dominate Signs of Sex Addiction ArticlesBy The Ranch TNMay 16, 2017For people with sex addiction, sex comes to overshadow all other aspects of their lives. And yet, simply having a lot of sex is not the most significant or most reliable sign of sex addiction. Instead, it’s the things that go along with frequent sexual activity that suggest sex has gone from being a healthy…
3 Adventure Therapies for Addiction That Promote Spiritual Growth Articles>Recovery at The Ranch, Articles>Therapy, From Our Experts>TennesseeBy The Ranch TNMay 3, 2017By Megan Repass, MS, LADAC-II, CCM, EAGALA-C, Director of Adventure and Equine Therapy at The Ranch Ana was in treatment for drug addiction and working on her tendency toward morbid rumination. Obsessive thought overwhelmed her, making it almost impossible for her to get out of her own head. But as someone who’d spent much of…
6 Ways High Ropes Therapy Helps You Fly Out of Your Comfort Zone Articles>TherapyBy The Ranch TNMay 3, 2017By Megan Repass, MS, LADAC-II, CCM, EAGALA-C, Director of Adventure and Equine Therapy at The Ranch Laurel nervously climbed the tall pole. Once she made it to the top she tried to balance her weight on the small platform. Her ultimate destination was back down ― but the ground was 80 feet below and jumping…
