Individual Recovery Path

If you have come to the site seeking a permanent end to your addiction and to rebuild a healthy life, and you have no significant romantic partner, your current partner is unaware of your addiction, or either you or your partner are uncertain as to whether you want your to relationship to continue, then this is the path you want to follow. It will allow you to understand your addiction and develop the tools necessary to not just overcome that addiction, but to learn how to develop and manage a healthy life.

The primary tool on this path is the Recovery Workshop — which is a comprehensive series of lessons (70+) divided into five distinct stages of progressive development. Each lesson has activities to assist you in integrating the learning material into your unique, personal life. The other primary tool that you will be using will be the Recovery Forum, where you will have the option of posting your lesson responses for feedback from volunteer coaches and mentors; and to ask questions to the recovery community to support your understanding of addiction, recovery and the transition to health. Two supplemental tools will also be at your disposal: the Recovery Checklist — which you will use down the road to monitor for fundamental weaknesses in the foundation you will be building; and the Recovery Manager — which will provide you with a single storage area with which to maintain an updated version of the most important information needed for achieving and maintaining health.

The Recovery Workshop

Getting Started in a Health Based Recovery

Choose a Recovery Path

One of the first decisions you will make in a health-based recovery is whether you will be attempting this year-long recovery process by yourself or with professional help. Each option can lead you to health — though some come with greater risk. Take a minute to explore the differences:

Self-Help Path – $47.00 Monthly Membership Fee

All of the tools you will need to successfully navigate your recovery from addiction to health are here — for the low investment of $47.00 a month. We wanted to keep it affordable and still be able to support the site.  In a self-help recovery, you gain access to all of the workshop lessons, checklists and resources as well as access to the community forums for questions and feedback from our volunteer coaches. This path requires that you have adequate organizational and time management skills. It may be low cost, but this is a comprehensive workshop that requires a significant investment of your time and energy.

• • • • Comprehensive Recovery Workshop
      • Recovery Forum (for community-based feedback)
      • Recovery Resources

Coach-Guided Path

Check out our Recovery Coaching Services page for all the options!

About the Recovery Tools

The following is a brief description of the tools you have available and how they work together to form a cohesive strategy for making a permanent transition to health.

The Recovery Workshop

A self-guided workshop with over 70 lessons that will provide you with the insights necessary for a complete transition to health. This workshop involves life skill development, addiction awareness, emotional mastery and more.

Recovery Forum

A community-based support forum to assist you in overcoming obstacles, reinforcing your efforts and/or refining your approach to building a healthy life in the wake of addiction.

Health Monitoring 

An evolution of the skills learned in the workshop, health monitoring is used to assist you in generating temporary focus and awareness when needed; and to combat complacency and relapse on an ongoing basis.

He Danced Alone: Inside the Heart and Mind of the Sex/Love Addict

The autobiography of Jonathan Marsh, written to educate those with little experience in the sex/love addictions as to just how severe these patterns can become; and for those with severe addictions to the reality that no one is beyond help. That what they are experiencing is a logical pattern (involving illogical behavior), it is not a fate.

Post-Recovery Monitoring/Training Series

This is a timed series of optional advanced lessons, exercises and skill development training will continue monthly for two years beyond the completion of the Recovery Workshop. This series is to ensure that what you have learned evolves into a natural, sustainable life management strategy.

Community/Group Support

In the public forums you’ll receive support from Coaches, Mentors and people both currently working through and who have completed the recovery workshop.