Cycle of Calling
©Andrew Bauman 2017 all rights reserved As you are attempting to step into your vocation and meaningful life’s work [...]
Goodness is Here: A poem of therapeutic gratitude
This past week I spent in Ashland, OR at the Masters Center for Transformation, facilitated by Dr. Robert Masters (http://robertmasters.com/) . It was some of the deepest [...]
The Pain Beneath the Porn
Robert Masters writes in his phenomenal book “To Be a Man”, “What we do sexually is a reflection of what we're doing with the rest of [...]
Pornography & Emotional Enmeshment
The pattern I often see when helping others process an unwanted relationship with pornography is a correlation between addiction and the propensity toward emotionally enmeshed relationships. Pornography [...]
I, Andrew, take you, Porn, to be my wife
Pornography use is not merely dependence but intimate relationship. Giving up pornography is not like learning to eat less chocolate, or going to the gym [...]
My Love & Hate for Women: a recovering sex addict’s ambivalence with femininity
I love women and I hate them. I need a woman close by to survive yet I can’t have a woman too close. If she gets too [...]