Mapping Your Sexual Stress: Using the Six-Factor Inventory to Jump-Start Recovery (Season 1-Episode #3)

🎙️ Episode #3

Mapping Your Sexual Stress: Using the Six-Factor Inventory to Jump-Start Recovery

 

📑 Episode Summary

In this deep-dive episode of Reclaim: Healing from Pornography and Rebuilding Your Life, Dr Kevin Skinner walks you through the Sexual Stress Inventory, a six-category framework that pinpoints where—and why—unwanted sexual behaviors keep showing up. You’ll learn how to:

1. Consistently Abstain – why true sobriety requires time, patience, and Recovery Capital.
2. Regain Behavioral Control – spotting the moments when “I could lose everything” still isn’t enough to stop you.
3. Recognize Consequences – confronting the hidden ways your actions hurt loved ones.
4. Decode Your Emotional Response – understanding irritability, withdrawals, and the dopamine “temper tantrum.”
5. Manage Cravings & Urges – building a granular, step-by-step action plan before temptation strikes.
6. Disarm Shame – shifting the internal dialogue from “I’m unlovable” to “I’m reclaiming the real me.”

Dr Skinner also explains why he layers in screenings for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE-10), PHQ-9 depression, GAD-7 anxiety, and ADHD, showing how early trauma, mood, and attention challenges often fuel compulsive sexual behavior.

The episode closes with a preview of next week’s focus on cravings and urges—the place most people feel stuck—and an invitation to use the free assessments and resources that accompany the Reclaim program.

 

🔗 Resources & Next Steps

Resource

What You’ll Get

Link

Sexual Stress Inventory & companion assessments

Instant scores for stress, ACEs, mood, and ADHD—plus tailored starter tips

humanintimacy.com/reclaim

Book — Treating Pornography Addiction

Dr Skinner’s evidence-based roadmap for clinicians and strivers alike

humanintimacy.com/book

Online Course — Reclaim: Overcoming Unwanted Sexual Behaviors

12-module, self-paced training with video lessons, worksheets, and group options

humanintimacy.com/reclaim-course

Recovery Capital Worksheet (free download)

Assess and strengthen the personal, social, and community assets that sustain long-term change

same link as above

Book — Dopamine Nation by Dr Anna Lembke

Insight into the brain’s reward system and why withdrawals feel so intense

 

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (U.S.)

24/7 confidential support if you’re feeling unsafe with your thoughts

 

Ready to go deeper? Grab the assessments, pick up the book, or enroll in the course today—and make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss our upcoming episode on mastering cravings and urges. It’s time to reclaim the real you.