After methamphetamine use, sexual recovery means returning to your 'factory settings' and figuring out what you actually want versus what trauma or religion taught you to want. The work is sorting genuine desire from inherited belief systems.
But with sexual recovery, we ask people to expand into many different dimensions of what it means to be a sexual human to them. And everyone is gonna have, you know, a different experience of what they're attracted to, their likes, their dislikes, what turn-ons, turn-offs. But getting back in touch with that and going back to kind of factory settings, if you will, before meth came in, I think is really important. And walking through sexual values and sexual belief systems, because am I actually being driven by my own desire? Or am I coming from ideas that maybe were impressed upon me, right? And that could be like childhood trauma, that could be religious trauma that often kind of get implanted and begin to lead the way. So contacting your true erotic self is a huge part of sexual recovery, but it requires some work. It requires some self-reflection.
