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Healing Conversations for Men Who Have Sex with Men

Dr. David Fawcett

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Frequency: 1 episode/35d. Total Eps: 45

The Sex, Love, and Addiction: Healing Conversations for Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Men podcast, featuring Dr. David Fawcett, presents ongoing expert discussions highlighting the life concerns of gay, bisexual, and transgender men. Dr. Fawcett, Vice President of Clinical Programming for Seeking Integrity Treatment Centers, is a licensed psychotherapist and sexologist specializing in co-occurring addictions, notably paired drug use and sex (aka, chemsex). He is the author of Lust, Men, and Meth: A Gay Men’s Guide to Sex and Recovery. In this podcast, he speaks with global experts in addiction, HIV/AIDS, stigma, gay marriage, relationships, and other pressing life issues directed toward gay, bisexual, and transgender men. This podcast seeks to help listeners heal old wounds while facing today’s challenges.

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🇨🇦 Canada - sexuality
26/05/2026
#72
🇬🇧 Great Britain - sexuality
04/04/2026
#70
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23/10/2025
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Addiction in the LGBTQ+ Community Isn’t a ‘Them’ Problem, It’s a We Problem.

Season 1 · Episode 45

Thursday, August 10, 2023 • Duration 28:34

Dr. Wesley Detwiler is a licensed Clinical Psychologist practicing in California and he works closely with the LGBTQ+ community and those suffering from addiction and complex trauma. In this episode, Dr. Wesley talks about what sex positive really means when you are in sobriety. He also talks about how the community itself can ostracize men who are seeking recovery, and he also discusses how many men are unaware of the risks of sex and porn addiction when trying to get sober from drugs.

TAKEAWAYS:

[1:50] A little bit about Dr. Wesley.

[3:20] Dr. Wesley personally struggled with a drug addiction and he knew he had to get sober in order for him to be a successful psychologist.

[4:45] How does Dr. Wesley define sobriety?

[9:25] Everyone has an underlying need for connection.

[11:15] A lot of gay men feel like they’re damaged goods.

[12:15] How are we using sex to value or devalue ourselves?

[17:15] As a community, we can end up ostracizing the very people who need your help the most.

[18:30] It’s not a ‘them’ problem, this is a ‘we’ problem.

[20:20] What does it really mean to be ‘sex positive’ in sobriety?

[23:35] We need to dive deeper and really explore what intimacy and sex really means to the individual.

RESOURCES:

Detwilerpsychology.com

QUOTES:

“I didn’t have the tools to ‘adult’ properly. I didn’t have the glue that would stick all those things together in a meaningful or positive way.”
“For anyone struggling to get sober, do not give up. Sobriety is achievable. The only thing you can’t do is give up.”
“As a community, there’s work we can do around having a more healthy concept of what healthy sex is.”

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Lust, Men and Meth translated to German: A conversation with Dr. Fawcett and Karl-Anton Gerber

Season 1 · Episode 44

Thursday, April 27, 2023 • Duration 27:35

Dr. David Fawcett, the author of Lust, Men, and Meth, has a conversation with the translator of the book, Karl-Anton Gerber, discussing how this project came about, his own story, and the chemsex scene in Germany.

German title: Lust, Rausch und Crystal Meth: Wege aus dem Chemsex-Konsum bei MSM

TAKEAWAYS:

[1:50] A little bit about Karl.

[3:20] Karl shares his introduction to drugs and how it has affected his life.

[7:10] Karl is HIV+ and shares how he first found out the news.

[9:10] Dr. David understands where Karl is coming from. For many gay men, they feel like “damaged goods.”

[9:40] What made Karl change his lifestyle and get clean?

[12:45] Karl shares how this book, Lust, Men, and Meth, changed his life.

[16:15] There are no reliable chemsex studies in Germany.

[20:00] Why did Karl decide to modify his foreword in the German version of his book?

RESOURCES:

Amazon link to German edition: https://tinyurl.com/bdhhj7n2

QUOTES:

“I had to admit I had a problem. That was the starting point to getting out of addiction.”
“My stable life and [the drugs] were separate, but when I was driving down the German highway, there was a little window between those two universes and I couldn’t hide any longer.”

ADHD and Its Connection to Addiction with Todd Love

Season 1 · Episode 35

Friday, February 19, 2021 • Duration 29:21

Todd Love is a therapist and counselor, who was previously a DUI Defense Attorney and in the IT sector. He specializes in ADHD, addiction recovery, and more. As someone who has ADHD himself, Todd understands that it can be a particularly lethal combo to have ADHD and an addiction. Find out more about some of the symptoms of ADHD and how it ties into addiction in this week’s episode.

TAKEAWAYS:

[1:35] How did Todd get his start as a counselor?

[4:15] A little bit of insight into ADHD and how it’s diagnosed.

[7:45] What is the relationship between ADHD and addiction?

[10:15] Todd shares some stats about children with ADHD and its connection to addiction later in adult life.

[11:35] Cannabis users combined with ADHD struggle with motivation and keeping their life on track.

[16:00] Are people self-medicating to try to bring their lives back into focus?

[19:40] Is Adderall a good ‘study’ drug? The research says no.

[20:35] How can someone determine whether they have ADHD?

[22:50] Are there ADHD medications out there that are helpful?

[23:20] Enough sleep is key to helping build regularity in your routines, and to your ADHD.

[26:30] What are the effects of some of these drugs on children?

RESOURCES:

Doctoddlove.com

Nyulangone.org/files/psych_adhd_checklist_0.pdf

Pandemic, Relapses, and How We Can Improve Online Recovery Support with Dean Buckley

Season 1 · Episode 34

Friday, February 12, 2021 • Duration 30:38

Dean Buckley is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Sex Addiction Therapist Candidate focusing on sex addiction, intimacy disorders, substance abuse, and healthy sex. Dean shares what kind of things he’s been seeing lately when it comes to his clients and navigating the pandemic. A lot of people have relapsed due to Covid and Dean explores better ways to support people in need and their recovery journey in this week’s episode.

TAKEAWAYS:

[1:05] We are unfortunately seeing a lot of relapses happening during Covid.

[2:45] What has Dean been seeing currently with people’s mental health and addiction?

[5:00] It’s very hard to separate your addiction from work life.

[6:00] One would expect alcohol rates to be less with the bars closed, but it’s not.

[7:10] What have been the differences in the east coast vs. west coast when it comes to drugs, addiction, and relapse during the pandemic?

[9:00] People are losing the in-person connection and accountability. Online meetings just don’t have the same impact.

[13:15] Dr. David has recognized that his emotional bandwidth is a lot shorter now with everything going on. Dean also agrees.

[18:05] Dean has lost a couple of people this year and there has not been enough opportunity to gather and grieve with your community.

[19:25] Reach out to somebody every day. One call saves two lives.

[22:25] Despite how awful the pandemic has been, there have been some blessings.

[24:55] What advice does Dean have for the LGBTQ community?

[27:25] Final words of wisdom with Dean on how to survive this marathon of a pandemic.

From Supporting Recovery to Gender Transition: The Importance of Nutrition in the LGBTQ Community with Lulu Cook

Season 1 · Episode 33

Friday, January 29, 2021 • Duration 33:00

Lulu Cook is a dietitian, counselor, and nutrition therapist. When one of her loved ones identified as transgender and began to transition, she looked high and wide to find food resources to help them through their journey and better fuel their body. She couldn’t find any information! Today, Lulu educates how the LGBTQ community is underserved in this area and some of the food concerns you need to think about if you’re in recovery or transitioning into a new body.

TAKEAWAYS:

[1:45] Are the nutritional/food needs of the LGBTQ community really that much different from the hetero community?

[5:30] Disordered eating and body dissatisfaction are huge in lesbian, gay, and trans populations.

[6:15] Gay men struggle with aging. They often feel invisible as they get older.

[8:55] The overall message you get as an LGBTQ member is that you’re not normal, and that’s not okay.

[9:40] When it comes to drug addiction and recovery, Lulu shares some of the challenges people might be facing when it comes to getting the right nutrients.

[14:45] What foods should you be eating when you’re in recovery?

[20:15] How can we speed up the healing of the dopamine receptors?

[23:15] Lulu couldn’t find any information about diet and nutrition for trans people undergoing a transition. However, she sheds some light into what health risks you need to think about when undergoing hormonal therapy.

[26:35] Unfortunately there’s still a lack of research on the health risks of hormonal therapy.

[27:30] What’s Lulu’s latest book about?

[29:45] Interested in queer health? Please consider signing up for a study conducted by the University of California at San Francisco.

Don’t Throw Away Your Unused Meds! Donate Them Instead with Jesus Aguais

Season 1 · Episode 32

Monday, November 2, 2020 • Duration 29:49

Jesus Aguais Founded Aid for AIDS International with the idea of collecting unused and unexpired HIV medication and sending it to HIV+ people in low-income countries who do not have access to these medications. Originally from Venezuela, Jesus moved to New York City in 1989 and has been involved in AIDS advocacy groups since then. Today, he shares what his organization is doing to help our brothers and sisters outside of the U.S. who have no voice.

TAKEAWAYS:

[1:45] What is Aid for AIDS about?

[6:35] Jesus’s story is a powerful reminder that one person can make a difference.

[11:10] Jesus not only is collecting excess HIV medication and sending it abroad to low income countries, but he's now started to do it for cancer medicine as well.

[12:45] Yes, we are lucky to live in the United States, but we’re part of a larger community.

[18:45] A woman living with HIV in Egypt has no voice. The same is true with a gay man living with HIV in Guatemala. So many countries still have stigma that you have HIV because you’re a sinner.

[19:30] It’s just as important to give support to these people so that they can heal from social stigma. They’re not bad people. They’re good people who deserve love.

[22:00] Jesus shares how his program has impacted and benefitted highschoolers. It was deployed in 8 Latin American countries and it reached over a million youth.

[24:10] Aid for AIDS is the number one provider of HIV medicines to migrants in Colombia.

[27:25] How can you help? If you have unused, unexpired medicine, please donate it to Aid for AIDS.

RESOURCES:

Aidforaids.org

All Your Inner Child Wants is Comfort — Eddie Capparucci

Season 1 · Episode 31

Monday, September 14, 2020 • Duration 29:40

Eddie Capparucci specializes in treating sexual and pornography addictions and is also the author of the new book, “Going Deeper: How the Inner Child Impacts Your Sexual Addiction.” In this episode, Eddie explains the 9 inner children a lot of men face, some of the common triggers, what to do when your inner child comes up, and how to make changes for the better.

TAKEAWAYS:

[0:45] A little bit about Eddie and the work that he does.

[2:55] What is the Inner Child Recovery process all about?

[5:40] When you understand why sex has a stronghold in your life, you become empowered to make a change.

[8:05] Eddie shares an example of how certain events can trigger your inner child.
[11:35] There are 9 different types of inner children.

[17:15] For a lot of men, understanding their inner child unlocks a lot of understanding that other therapists could not help them with.

[19:25] Now that you know what your inner child is, what do you do when it becomes activated?

[24:25] The key to all of this insight is mindfulness. What does that look like?

RESOURCES:

Abundantlifecounselingga.com

QUOTES:

“The inner child only wants one thing. Only one thing. Comfort. For the men I work with, that comfort they found in sexual activity.”
“The child is stuck in this time warp where he is running just based on emotional thinking.”
“When I become mindful and am able to recognize what’s going on around me, how can I help those who I love, then we wind up growing. That’s growth.”

You’re NOT Damaged Goods! — Mark Anthony Lord

Season 1 · Episode 30

Thursday, August 27, 2020 • Duration 28:04

Mark Anthony Lord is a spiritual teacher and helps the LGBTQ community get in touch with their spiritual side. As a gay man, Mark Anthony was told all his life that he was unloveable and that God hated him. However, Mark Anthony decided he wasn’t going to let that narrative control him anymore. He wanted to be connected to a higher power, he wanted to be spiritual, which is why he decided to redefine his relationship with God.

TAKEAWAYS:

[2:00] A little bit about Mark Anthony and the work that he does.

[3:25] Mark Anthony is a gay man with a spiritual and religious background and understands the struggles the gay community has with God and religion.

[5:05] Mark Anthony was 25 when he ended up in a private treatment center in Canada.

[6:30] Mark Anthony spent years re-defining his relationship with God.

[9:25] If you want a spiritual life, it’s absolutely available to you. It can be very personal to you.

[11:40] If you’re not connected with your own spirit or yourself, how can you be connected with others?

[13:35] What happens if you believe you’re damaged goods?

[17:50] Mark Anthony offers some self-care tips to help you break out of this ‘damaged goods’ thinking.

[20:05] Forgiveness is very misunderstood.

[23:50] Just like you don’t just go to the gym once and forget about it once, the same applies to forgiveness.

RESOURCES:

Markanthonylord.me

Mark Anthony on Instagram

Overcoming Childhood Sexual Abuse — Carol Teitelbaum

Season 1 · Episode 29

Thursday, July 30, 2020 • Duration 33:32

Carol Teitelbaum is a Licensed Therapist and has been practicing since 1985. She helps her patients with life issues such as addictions, relationship problems, low self-esteem, self-harm, and men surviving child abuse. She is also the Co-Founder of the Creative Change Conferences, a resource for those experiencing addiction, depression, and who are survivors of child abuse. In this episode, Carol shares her journey and some of the reasons why abuse victims continue the cycle of abuse in their own households.

TAKEAWAYS:

[2:00] A little bit about Carol and her background.

[3:00] Why do abuse victims continue the cycle of abuse when they themselves have been abused?

[6:10] When we look back, we don’t see what the true reality was and how small we were at the age of 4-8 years old. We think we were bigger than we actually were and we always try to protect our parents.

[6:25] Why don’t boys tell people about what’s going on?

[10:55] Abuse and homosexuality. What’s happening there?

[13:40] For a survivor, having someone get to know you is the worst thing in the world.

[15:30] If a child has one, just one adult in their life who believes in them, they can make it.

[18:00] Women are becoming harsher with their children right now as everybody is housed under one roof.

[20:00] What is the ACE study?

[21:00] There is hope! Many of these men are healing.

[23:45] What kind of triggers do survivors experience in adulthood?

[30:15] What is the Creative Change Conference about?

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Betrayed by Your Body? Heal Your Sexual Self — Suzie Le Brocq

Season 1 · Episode 28

Monday, July 13, 2020 • Duration 28:33

Suzie Le Brocq is a Board Certified Sex Therapist and Transgender Care Therapist. Suzie has worked in the addiction treatment field for more than 15 years. Currently, Suzie is working on and studying the psychosexual effects women have when they have an ostomy or another major surgery that can deform/change the body. Suzie shares what women typically go through, their concept of sexual self, and how these concerns apply to men and women.

TAKEAWAYS:

[1:00] A little bit about Suzie.

[2:40] What are the psychosexual effects on women who have an ostomy?

[7:30] Losing the ability to control your bowels can feel very degrading and shameful.

[10:25] Suzie dives deeper into the definition of your ‘sexual self’.

[12:15] Our sexual self is developed from the sexual stories that we’ve been told while growing up.

[13:15] Some of us have an idea that sex should be a certain way, to look a certain way, and sound a certain way, and then suddenly that can be changed in an instant with a diagnosis.

[15:00] Do men and women see their sexual selves differently?

[20:15] Suzie felt her body let her down and felt very betrayed by her body.

[23:15] Partner acceptance is key to healing.

[24:30] When you’re sick, your partner can take on the role of a caregiver, but as you start to get better, that caregiving role might not go away.

RESOURCES:

Newlifepsychology.ca

Suzie on LinkedIn

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