All Episodes
Reconnection Podcast with Dr. Michael Barta — 28 episodes
Why Understanding Yourself Never Fixed It
How Do You Know If You Have a Sex Addiction?
What Trauma Really Is (And Why So Many People Miss It)
Episode 25 - Am I Addicted to Sex? (The Truth About Relief vs. Pleasure)
Episode 24 - Why Relationships Stay Stuck After Betrayal Even When Both People Want Healing
Episode 23 - Why Regulation Is Essential for Relationship Healing
Episode 21 - The Intensive Is the Beginning, Not the Finish Line
Episode 22 - You Cannot Heal the Relationship Until You Understand and Heal the Cause
Episode 20 - Why Insight Alone Does Not Create Lasting Change
Episode 19 - Why I Expanded the Intensive Into a 90-Day Experience
Episode 18 - How Intimacy Disorder Forms
Episode 17 - Intimacy Disorder — The Hidden Root of Addiction
Episode 16 - Reconnecting Emotionally After Betrayal
Episode 15 - Rebuilding Trust After Betrayal
Episode 14 - Healing Your Nervous System After Betrayal
Episode 13 - Compliance vs. Real Change
Episode 12 - From Chaos to Clarity: A Betrayed Partner’s Guide to Real Change
Episode 11 - Relapse isn't Failure
Episode 10 - Why White-Knuckling Fails
Episode 9 - Substitute for Connection
Episode 8 - Rewriting the Stories the Nervous System Learned
Episode 7 - Moving from Survival
Episode 6 - What Safety Feels like
Episode 5 - The Four Pillars of Safety and Connection
Episode 4 - When Survival Becomes Suffering
Episode 3 – Addiction as the Nervous System’s Survival Strategy
Episode 2 - Why Do I Do What I Hate? Moving Beyond Shame and Willpower in Addiction Recovery
Episode 1 - The Reconnection Model: A Neurobiological Approach to Healing Sex Addiction and Intimacy Disorders