Boundaries are an incredibly effective method families use to help themselves and their loved ones from harm when battling an addiction.  Watching someone you love struggle with addiction is heartbreaking. Often, spouses of those suffering and their families change their entire lives to be able to give their support more effectively. While amiable and often necessary, this sets addiction as ...

Just as substance abuse can lead to addictions, so can behavioral abuses lead to addiction. Pornography addiction is one type of addiction that stems from the behaviors in which people partake. Recovery from this addiction — like all addictions — requires the addiction to be taken seriously.  Most are aware of chemical addictions such as drug and alcohol dependencies. These ...

In the beginning years of recognizing pornography addiction, many were skeptical to believe that it should actually be considered an addiction. This is due to the comparison to drug addictions and the withdrawal that comes along with drug addictions. However, as scientists learn more about pornography addiction, it is becoming increasingly regarded as a true addiction.  When Desert Solace, an ...

Discovering that a loved one has an addiction to pornography is a very troubling situation. There is no easy way to discover addiction and there isn’t an easy way to cope, but there steps to take before and after discovering such an addiction that can make things easier.  For those who want to learn about self-transformation and beating an addiction to pornography, there ...

Mark and Jerri Jorgensen from Desert Solace discuss their own journey through pornography and sex addiction recovery, and the importance of recovery. “The idea of pornography itself has been around as long as there have been images,” said Mark Jorgensen, founder of Desert Solace. Desert Solace is the first addiction center in Utah focused on the treatment of pornography and ...

By Jerri Jorgensen Horses are becoming part of the therapeutic community in a new field called Equine Assisted Therapy and Equine Assisted Learning. It is becoming one of the most popular and effective methods of therapy used. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. “We’ve been using Equine Assisted Therapy,” shared Mark Jorgensen, founder of Desert ...

While pornography has existed in magazines and other visual mediums for decades, the industry exploded over the last 10 to 15 years following the invention of the internet, according to Mark Jorgensen, founder and CEO of the Utah-based pornography addiction recovery center Desert Solace. With the ease of today’s technology, the accessibility and affordability of pornography has led exposure rates ...

Residential Treatment Facility Open to Men 18 and Older from the Santa Clarita Valley or Anywhere Else Who are Affected by Pornography Addiction or Sex Addiction By Stephen K. Peeples Once underground, pornography has become a multi-billion-dollar aboveground business in the past half-century, and part of contemporary culture, for better or worse. In the past few decades, increasingly easy availability in ...

A wife and husband faced his pornography addiction, then opened the Desert Solace residential recovery center in Utah to provide effective sex addiction recovery programs to others nationwide. Guest Commentary by Jerri Jorgensen It may seem like a question out of the blue, but ask yourself: Who in your family is affected by pornography or sex addiction? I’ve learned from ...