148 episodes

The Couples Healing podcast is a resource to help husbands in their porn addiction recovery and to help couples restore the trust and connection again in their marriage.

The effects of porn addiction or sex addiction can be devastating individually and in the relationship, but with the right approach, men can learn how to stop watching porn, heal the pain it causes his wife, and rebuild trust again in the marriage.

Each episode is designed to give you new insights, tools, and strategies to help you at each stage of your journey, whether you‘re just now beginning to address the addiction, or if you‘ve been struggling for many years and still feel stuck.

In the podcast, I also share ways for women to feel empowered, safe, and worthy, and I share how the couple can navigate their relationship together during this difficult time.

Join me, Sam Tielemans, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, as I share my expertise and knowledge to help you find freedom, peace, confidence, connection, and hope.

Couples Healing From Pornography Addiction Sam Tielemans, LMFT

    • Health & Fitness
    • 4.9 • 170 Ratings

The Couples Healing podcast is a resource to help husbands in their porn addiction recovery and to help couples restore the trust and connection again in their marriage.

The effects of porn addiction or sex addiction can be devastating individually and in the relationship, but with the right approach, men can learn how to stop watching porn, heal the pain it causes his wife, and rebuild trust again in the marriage.

Each episode is designed to give you new insights, tools, and strategies to help you at each stage of your journey, whether you‘re just now beginning to address the addiction, or if you‘ve been struggling for many years and still feel stuck.

In the podcast, I also share ways for women to feel empowered, safe, and worthy, and I share how the couple can navigate their relationship together during this difficult time.

Join me, Sam Tielemans, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, as I share my expertise and knowledge to help you find freedom, peace, confidence, connection, and hope.

    147: Tools to Help Your Relationship Progress If She Brings Up Her Pain

    147: Tools to Help Your Relationship Progress If She Brings Up Her Pain

    Announcement!!!
    Trust is a critical part of rebuilding your relationship after pornography use has damaged it.
    So, I decided to do a special trust building workshop, where for 90 minutes I’ll be doing a deep dive and sharing with you specific steps you can take, tools you can implement, and practical ways that you can rebuild trust in your relationship. Before I offer the workshop for sale, I’m doing the live version of it for free. 
    If that sounds interesting, you can join by registering here:
    trust.stopporn.info
         Today’s Episode:
    Have you ever had the experience where things feel relatively calm between you and your spouse?
    And you think things are going well, then out of nowhere she brings up her pain from the past, and her husband is completely caught off guard.
    Just the mirror mention of the past that she is still hurting seems to cause things to spiral or him to shut down because of discouragement.
    It’s a reminder that things aren't back to normal yet and that there are still issues that haven’t been resolved.
    In today's episode I want to share with you how you can navigate these moments and a new way to look at this situation to give you some encouragement and hope that you guys can get through this.
     
    For therapy with Sam:
    I will work with you for 12 weeks to help you eliminate pornography use and the root cause that started it.
    If after the 12 weeks you haven’t fully been able to quit, I’ll work with you 1-1 for free until you do.
    Go to stopporn.info for more information about working with me directly.
     
    Follow Me on Instagram for daily tips and tools you can implement to overcome pornography addiction.
     
    Join the free, private men’s community here for Q&As, live trainings, tools, and support. It's even better because it's not on Facebook anymore, it's on a much better platform that will facilitate a lot more support and help for men:
    Join the Private Group Here
     
    Want access to a free course I created for my podcast listeners?
    Simply go to www.coupleshealing.org and in the course you'll learn some top strategies to find healing from addiction and trauma, rebuild trust, experience freedom, and begin to reconnect with each other in the relationship.
     

    • 26 min
    146: Success Story: Braden Shares the 5 Specific Things That Changed His Life and Helped Him Quit Pornography

    146: Success Story: Braden Shares the 5 Specific Things That Changed His Life and Helped Him Quit Pornography

    Have you ever felt so hopeless and discouraged as you've tried to quit pornography that you thought that there's no way out?
    Despite how hard you've tried, you just haven't been able to get this problem out of your life.
    This is how Braden felt before we started to work together.
    He tried everything he possibly could, but it still didn't work.
    After discovering there is a new way he could approach quitting pornography, it gave him hope to try one more time.
    In this conversation, Braden outlines the five specific things that helped him the most.
    He shares how different his life is now that he's actually been successful at eliminating pornography.
    His personal life and marriage are flourishing, and he feels so much excitement about wanting to help others experience the same fulfillment that comes from resolving this issue.
     
    For therapy with Sam:
    I will work with you for 12 weeks to help you eliminate pornography use and the root cause that started it.
    If after the 12 weeks you haven’t fully been able to quit, I’ll work with you 1-1 for free until you do.
    Go to stopporn.info for more information about working with me directly.
     
    Follow Me on Instagram for daily tips and tools you can implement to overcome pornography addiction.
     
    Join the free, private men’s Facebook community here for Q&As, live trainings, tools, and support:
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/toolstoquit
     
    Want access to a free course I created for my podcast listeners?
    Simply go to www.coupleshealing.org and in the course you'll learn some top strategies to find healing from addiction and trauma, rebuild trust, experience freedom, and begin to reconnect with each other in the relationship.

    • 56 min
    145: When It’s Hard to Work On Your Marriage and Forgiveness Seems Impossible to Achieve

    145: When It’s Hard to Work On Your Marriage and Forgiveness Seems Impossible to Achieve

    Pornography use damages a relationship in deep and significant ways.
    Trust is broken and her wall goes up.
    The idea of forgiveness can feel impossible to offer, and a husband feels despair wondering if they’ll ever move on from the past and find closure.
    This episode I share with you how you can navigate this painful situation in a way that will feel comfortable for both of you.
    While forgiveness is an important step, when and how you focus on, it makes all the difference.
     
    For therapy with Sam:
    I will work with you for 12 weeks to help you eliminate pornography use and the root cause that started it.
    If after the 12 weeks you haven’t fully been able to quit, I’ll work with you 1-1 for free until you do.
    Go to stopporn.info for more information about working with me directly.
     
    Follow Me on Instagram for daily tips and tools you can implement to overcome pornography addiction.
     
    Join the free, private men’s Facebook community here for Q&As, live trainings, tools, and support:
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/toolstoquit
     
    Want access to a free course I created for my podcast listeners?
    Simply go to www.coupleshealing.org and in the course you'll learn some top strategies to find healing from addiction and trauma, rebuild trust, experience freedom, and begin to reconnect with each other in the relationship.
     

    • 23 min
    144: 5 Signs She’s Feeling Betrayal Trauma (And How You Can Address It)

    144: 5 Signs She’s Feeling Betrayal Trauma (And How You Can Address It)

    When a woman discovers her husband's pornography use, her whole world gets turn upside down. 
    Oftentimes she now thinks that everything was a lie. Their whole relationship was fake. They don't even know who their husband is anymore.
    Given how much damage is done, many women experience what's called betrayal trauma.
    In this episode I share with you the 5 indicators that a woman is experiencing betrayal trauma, then I share with you three specific things that you can do to address it together.
     
    For therapy with Sam:
    I will work with you for 12 weeks to help you eliminate pornography use and the root cause that started it.
    If after the 12 weeks you haven’t fully been able to quit, I’ll work with you 1-1 for free until you do.
    Go to stopporn.info for more information about working with me directly.
     
    Follow Me on Instagram for daily tips and tools you can implement to overcome pornography addiction.
     
    Join the free, private men’s Facebook community here for Q&As, live trainings, tools, and support:
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/toolstoquit
     
    Want access to a free course I created for my podcast listeners?
    Simply go to www.coupleshealing.org and in the course you'll learn some top strategies to find healing from addiction and trauma, rebuild trust, experience freedom, and begin to reconnect with each other in the relationship.
     

    • 32 min
    143: How to Avoid Pornography If Your Spouse Leaves Town or For The Day

    143: How to Avoid Pornography If Your Spouse Leaves Town or For The Day

    When a spouse is gone for the day or weekend and a man is all alone, it's a common trigger.
    In this episode I share 3 specific things you can do to make sure that those periods of being alone won't cause another setback.
    For therapy with Sam:
    I will work with you for 12 weeks to help you eliminate pornography use and the root cause that started it.
    If after the 12 weeks you haven’t fully been able to quit, I’ll work with you 1-1 for free until you do.
    Go to stopporn.info for more information about working with me directly.
     
    Follow Me on Instagram for daily tips and tools you can implement to overcome pornography addiction.
     
    Join the free, private men’s Facebook community here for Q&As, live trainings, tools, and support:
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/toolstoquit
     
    Want access to a free course I created for my podcast listeners?
    Simply go to www.coupleshealing.org and in the course you'll learn some top strategies to find healing from addiction and trauma, rebuild trust, experience freedom, and begin to reconnect with each other in the relationship.

    • 20 min
    142: Success Story: Freedom After 30 Years of Pornography Use

    142: Success Story: Freedom After 30 Years of Pornography Use

    Change is 100% if you have the right ingredients.
    In today's episode, I want to introduce to you a man who has found success, and 2 years later, he continues to to do well, have a strong marriage, and help other people in their struggles with quitting porn.
    This path can I often feel discouraging and depressing because most men experience countless failures and setbacks along the way.
    The common thread is that men just don't know what to do to eliminate their problem, despite putting in effort and being desperate for change.
    Check out this episode to see the specific things that helped Todd restore his relationship and conquer his problem.
    For therapy with Sam:
    I will work with you for 12 weeks to help you eliminate pornography use and the root cause that started it.
    If after the 12 weeks you haven’t fully been able to quit, I’ll work with you 1-1 for free until you do.
    Go to stopporn.info for more information about working with me directly.
     
    Follow Me on Instagram for daily tips and tools you can implement to overcome pornography addiction.
     
    Join the free, private men’s Facebook community here for Q&As, live trainings, tools, and support:
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/toolstoquit
     
    Want access to a free course I created for my podcast listeners?
    Simply go to www.coupleshealing.org and in the course you'll learn some top strategies to find healing from addiction and trauma, rebuild trust, experience freedom, and begin to reconnect with each other in the relationship.

    • 53 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
170 Ratings

170 Ratings

Kmenders58 ,

I’m shocked!

To find this helpful resource that already - after only listening to two episodes - has helped me so much! We’ve been dealing with this issue for a long time as a couple and this is the first time I see a glimmer of hope!
I like how it deals with the relationship as a whole in building back trust and a bond! I feel so understood! And I think ongoing this will help me to understand pornography addiction and betrayal.

J!mbo $lice ,

Practical advice

Lots of podcasts out there for healing yourself as the one with problematic sexual behavior. Lots of podcasts with big picture things about recovery of the coupleship. This is the best I’ve seen with practical things to say and do to help restore the relationship when a breach of trust has occurred.

austingrahl ,

A source of hope and help

This podcast has given me lots of hope for healing and also lots of practical, helpful information. Thank you!

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