Are Sex Addiction and Love Addiction The Same Thing: Aleah Ava

This week, Sherry and Carla welcome Aleah Ava, Co-Founder of The Royal Path and host of the Addicted to Love Podcast. Through using many tools including trauma-informed emotional healing and her unique method called “emotional recycling”, Aleah supports couples and individuals who face love, sex, and relationship challenges. The three talk about the benefits of Primal Scream Therapy, tantric sex, the difference and similarities of sex addiction vs. love addiction, and the signs of sex addiction.     What You’ll Hear In This Episode:   A Love Fix Question from a listener tired of being single and feeling the challenge of loving life relationship free.  Aleah shares how she got into using tantra as a tool for growth, and how it can help us bring every issue and feeling to the bedroom.  How is sex addiction different from love addiction? How is it similar?  Interested in attending a retreat with Aleah? Ways to connect on your Royal Path to her, along with ways to work with Sherry and Carla on overcoming codependency, dating, a break-up, healing from toxic relationships, and gaining confidence. What is Primal Scream Therapy, and how can we use it to get stuck energy and unresolved pain and trauma out of our body?  What is a retreat with Aleah like, and how do the particpapants support each other’s wounds and vulnerability?  What are some signs that you or someone you know may be a sex addict?  What are some other types of somantic work which provides resources and tools for trauma therapy?  What are sex addicts typically running from at their core?  What are three ways we can get into our body and feel more grounded in and out of the bedroom?    Tweetables: “Be present. Attune to the moment.” - Sherry “Sex can be either really, really traumatizing and just reinforce that wound of rejection or not feeling loved. Or, sex can be really nourishing.” - Aleah “As a woman, I really have to learn to listen to the tempo of my body.” - Aleah “Woman and pleasure is very different than men and pleasure.” - Aleah  “Tantra in itself is a way of living. It’s really about surrending yourself to what is, saying yes to the moment, and accepting it.” - Aleah  “It (tantra) is about giving up the idea of a goal, and having an understanding of where you want to go in sex together.” - Aleah  “It’s about union. The feminine and the masculinine together in the bedroom and forgetting that idea of separation.” - Aleah  “I always come back to the heart space. So if I can go in and really listen to it and understand that my body is my compass, it guides me.” - Aleah  “It’s all about loving yourself whether you’re in a relationship, single, or going through a breakup. That is where the happiness comes from.” - Carla  “Sex addiction or love addiction, it’s really an inability to truly connect.” - Sherry    Connect with Us!   The Love Fix | @thelovefixpodcast Become a Member - Codependency Special (2020) - Wake Up Recovery  - $1 trial membership  Join the Narcissistic Abuse and Codependent Relationship Transformation Challenge FB group  The Love Fix Relationship Quiz     Sign up for a Connection call with Sherry https://sherrygaba.com/coaching/life-coaching/    Find Out More:  Never Have I Ever  Your Honor  Dr. Arthur Janov  John Bradshaw    Sherry Website | Instagram | Facebook | Love Smacked | Wake Up Recovery for Codependents and Toxic Relationships     Carla Website | Instagram | Facebook | Contagious Love | Online Dating Bootcamp    Aleah Ava: Addicted to Love Podcast | Website | Facebook | LinkedIn    Website | Books|Love and Relationships Podcast | Instagram  Today’s episode is sponsored by Carla’s book Contagious Love: Break Free from Codependency for Damn Good and Sherry’s book Love Smacked: How To Stop the Cycle of Relationship Addiction and Codependency To Find Everlasting Love.  Thanks to Contagious Love and Love Smacked for sponsoring this episode.