The phrase, "sex with self" seems a little ambiguous to me - a lawyer who specializes in sobriety...

I frequently used fear to justify acting out.  Masturbation produced temporary tranquility.  Afterwards I was even more afraid, but for the moment it was a nice numb feeling. ...

I dreaded Step Nine.  I could not imagine how I could possibly go to people to make amends for the things I’d done wrong.  All I ever wanted to do was to sweep those things under the rug or into a dark corner of a...

I'm picturing a memory from a few years ago.  I awake to a beautiful spring Saturday morning, birds chirping, sun shining.  Lying blissfully in bed with a...