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490: How To Not Let Addiction Rule Your LGBTQ Life This Holiday Season – Gregory Silva

By Rick Clemons | 11/03/2021 |

The holidays are upon us along with the fun, joy, and STRESS. So how do you not let the stress drive you into your potential addiction, or ratchet up that addiction? You take the necessary steps to say, I need help. You also realize as an LGBTQ inidivual that you are up to 10x’s more…

142: Loving Yourself Through and Out of Addiction – Gregory Silva

By Rick Clemons | 10/15/2021 |

LGBTQ people are 9-10 times more likely to addicted to sex, drugs, alcohol or food. Why? For many reasons, but the most obvious reason is we’ve been shamed into submission for not being good enough. It’s time for that shame to end and to demystify the pathway to treatment and recovery from whatever your addiction…

129: How To Break Free From Your Hidden Addictions – Rick Clemons

By Rick Clemons | 07/16/2021 |

Sex, Drugs, Food, Video Games. We all have addictions, but we may not OPENLY admit to them. Another possibility, is we don’t seem them as addictions, because we have become so used to hiding them that we just don’t even realize they are an addiction. As gay men we’ve become victims, or numb to the…

352: Coming Out Of The Closets of Bullying and Drug Addiction – Mark Stephen Pooler

By Rick Clemons | 01/30/2019 |

Darkness. The kind that causes you to retreat into yourself because you’ve been bullied so much you actually believe that you’re worthless. You’ve made the conscious and unconscious decision to hide and turn to a life of self-destruction and drug addiction, rather than face one more painful moment of living in this abuse. It’s a…