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  Joshua Shea, MSI Press author and porn addiction and betrayal trauma coach, was interviewed on  Dancing in the Discomfort Zone with Anne Bonney  about something unusual but perhaps not totally unexpected: porn addiction skyrocketed in 2020.  Ah, the pandemic year! And Joshua wrote a book about it (along with his other books on porn addiction), Porn and the Pandemic . For more posts about Joshua and his books, click HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Planning on self-publishing and don't know where to start? Our  author au pair  services will mentor you through the process. Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  reviewing  a current or forthcoming MSI Press LLC book? Contact editor@msipress.com. Want an  author-signed copy  of this book? Purchase the book at 25%

Joshua Shea, author of He's a Porn Addict...Now What? and Porn and the Pandemic , was interviewed on Art of Living Podcast. Listen to it here:  How Porn Addiction Ruined my Relationships | ART OF LIVING PODCAST | ZAFAR MAJID (youtube.com) For more posts about Joshua and his book, click  HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  reviewing  a current or forthcoming MSI Press LLC book? Contact editor@msipress.com. Want an  author-signed copy  of this book? Purchase the book at 25% discount (use coupon code FF25) and concurrently send a written request to orders@msipress.com. 

  This week's book back story tells the tale of He's a Porn Addict...Now What? (Overbay and Shea). From the editor -  Joshua Shea had read and was taken with Healing from Incest (Henderson & Emerton, in which an author and her therapist, with permission from the State of Nebraska psychological ethics board, teamed up to tell a compelling story). He and his therapist, Tony Overbay, wanted to do the same. We saw a very positive aspect of these book parallels and offered a contract. From the paperback came a hard cover, e-book (the most popular version of this book), and an audio book. Paperback copies of this book can be purchased at the   MSI Press webstore   at 25% discount with coupon code FF25. For more posts about this book, click HERE .  Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Interested in receiving a free c

  Today's author in the news is Joshua Shea, author of He's a Porn Addict...Now What? and Porn and the Pandemic: How Three Months in 2020 Changed Everything , is interviewed in a two-part interview on Unsolicited Perspectives podcast.  Here are the two sessions: Unsolicited Perspectives – Part I –  YouTube Unsolicited Perspectives – Part II –  YouTube For more posts about Joshua and his books, click HERE . Paperback versions of Joshua's books are available at MSI Press webstore . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  reviewing  a current or forthcoming MSI Press LLC book? Contact editor@msipress.com. Want an  author-signed copy  of this book? Purchase the book at 25% discount (use coupon code FF25) and concurrently send a wri

  Joshua Sheam author of He's a Porn Addict, Now What? * and Porn and the Pandemic , appears as a guest on the TeaTime with Miss Liz podcast. You can listen to it HERE . He tells his personal story with porn addiction and sexual health recovery. For more posts about Joshua and his books, click HERE . *Currently, this book is #153 on Amazon for sexual addiction and recovery. Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  reviewing  a current or forthcoming MSI Press LLC book? Contact editor@msipress.com. Want an  author-signed copy  of this book? Purchase the book at 25% discount (use coupon code FF25) and concurrently send a written request to orders@msipress.com. Want to communicate with one of our authors? You can!  Find their contact info

  excerpt from He's a Porn Addict...Now What? (Overbay and Shea) -  Can a guy really look at pictures and images without comparing them to the person he is with?   Tony, the mental health professional:  I know from working with enough addicts that the typical reason someone is addicted to pornography is that it’s a coping mechanism for the parts of their life that they aren't satisfied with and it becomes an addiction they turn to again and again despite the isolation and shame. The pictures in the magazines and the images that they're watching in the videos are an unhealthy escape. But unfortunately, even when they aren’t isolated and are with their wives, they are still preoccupied with the fantasy imagery. A lot of the clients I work with admit they think of pornography when they are intimate with their wives. For young men, the growing rates of erectile dysfunction because of pornography is staggering. They are now growing up with such an unhealthy diet of porn and pic

  Joshua Shea, author of He's a Porn Addict...Now What? and Porn and the Pandemic , has dusted off his blog for the first time since July. He says he does not know if this might be the only post this year --- but it is still worth reading. You can find it HERE . For more posts about Joshua and his books, click HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  reviewing  a current or forthcoming MSI Press LLC book? Contact editor@msipress.com. Want an  author-signed copy  of this book? Purchase the book at 25% discount (use coupon code FF25) and concurrently send a written request to orders@msipress.com.

  MSI Press author, Joshua Shea ( He's a Porn Addict...Now What? and Porn and the Pandemic ), can be heard on Recovery Nuggets podcast, hosted by David Clement. You can listen to the podcast HERE . For more posts about Joshua and his book, click HERE . LC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  reviewing  a current or forthcoming MSI Press LLC book? Contact editor@msipress.com. Want an  author-signed copy  of this book? Purchase the book at 25% discount (use coupon code FF25) and concurrently send a written request to orders@msipress.com. 

  Excerpt from Porn and the Pandemic  by Joshua Shea My introduction to the world of journalism came as a high school senior in August 1993 when I was hired in the sports department of the Sun Journal in Lewiston, Maine.  With the exception of short breaks here and there, I have exclusively made my living as either a journalist or editor since then. I was never the journalist who dreamed of being dropped into a war zone or into the thick of a presidential race. I saw no reason to go to Fenway Park to cover a Boston Red Sox game. It seemed just as easy to watch the game on television and get the same quotes every other writer did in the post-game news conference. And while armed stand-offs may be exciting to read about or watch in a two-minute news clip, I’ve been to them in real life. It’s mostly sitting behind your car waiting for something exciting to happen. Spoiler: It never does. I found my niche in research. I went to my share of five-alarm fires, and there certainly is a morbid

  Earlier this year, MSI Press author, Joshua Shea ( He's a Porn Addict...Now What?  and  Porn and the Pandemic ), had some very interesting things to say on Positive Talk Radio. Have a listen: Joshua Shea- Expert on Porn Addiction | Positive Talk Radio with Kevin McDonald Joshua Shea- PORN Addiction Expert | Positive Talk Radio with Kevin McDonald Read posts about Joshua and his books  HERE . Link fo review of He's a Porn Addict...Now What? and more book information  HERE .                                  Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter                           Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .

  from   He's a Porn Addict...Now What? Should I make him tell our pastor? Tony, the mental health professional: Remembering that ultimately you can’t “make” him do anything, I feel that it is reasonable to ask him to confess to your pastor, especially if he has truly been living a “double life” with regard to the addiction. Many addicts attend church regularly, which can confuse a spouse. “How can he worship God, or teach a Sunday School class, or hold any type of church responsibility and be acting out?” These are hard questions to process for the betrayed, but to the betrayer, this has been part of the shame cycle that often keeps an addict turning back to the addiction. Many addicts tell me that when they are in church, they are trying to be “all in.” They often say that they truly do compartmentalize areas of their lives, and when it comes to church, they often desperately cling to the hope that while they are in their “spiritual compartment” they will feel some hope. Often th

  Oops! We missed it, but it is still worth a listen. For sure! Check out " Another Look at Porn Addiction " with Deb Silber and MSI Press author, Joshua Shea ( He's a Porn Addict...Now What? and Porn and the Pandemic ) on Breakthrough from the PBT Institute. Joshua is a sought-after podcast interviewee. In the next week or so, for those who have enjoyed this podcast, we will post a list of a number of Josh's other podcasts for your listening entertainmanet and erudition. Read posts about Joshua and his books HERE . Link fo review of He's a Porn Addict...Now What? and more book information HERE .                                  Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter                           Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .