“I have caused tremendous harm to myself and others during my decades of sex and love addiction. I have inserted myself into peoples relationships and I have broken up families. I have lied to myself and others. I have hurt people I have promised to cherish. I have crossed boundaries with friends. I have run away from people whom people who have cared about me and towards people who didn’t. I have cheated on people and allowed myself to be cheated upon. I have tried to buy love with money. I have triangulated, strategized, and manipulated. I have seduced people and discarded them just as often as I have been seduced and discarded. I have committed and accepted heartbreaking degradation. I have committed and accepted shameful objectification. I have used other peoples bodies as drugs, both sedatives and stimulants. I have treated my own body with terrible disrespect and I have never been able to stop.”  -Elizabeth Gilbert

All the Way to the River has been helping me recognize unresolved issues that have been crippling me all my life. It’s bringing immense relief and hope for healing…