Nothing catalyzes deep feeling like music can. Here are the songs that helped us find our feelings, or escape for a while from the intensity of life with a sex addict.
Agnus Dei II,
The Beatitudes (Adagio), track 1
Ani DiFranco
Dilate
Superhero
Done Wrong
Annie Lennox
Why
Ben Harper
Happy Everafter In Your Eyes
(note: I listen to this when I want to remind myself that someday a good man who’s not afraid will say this to me.. but if you need to access deeply-buried grief over what’s been lost in your life with a SAC, this might just be the song to bring that grief up to the surface.)
Cat Power
Good Woman
Coldplay
Warning Sign
Fix You
Lost
What If
Dido
Life For Rent
Who Makes You Feel
See the Sun
Evanescence
Everybody’s Fool
The Fray
All At Once
Heather Nova
Truth and Bone
I’m The Girl
I’m Alive
Heart and Shoulder
Not Only Human
Help Me Be Good To You
Talk To Me
It’s Only Love
Jeremy Camp
Anything by Jeremy Camp (Christian artist) I listen to Jeremy when I need to be inspired that something way more than this world of pain exists….and it always puts me in a great head. If Christian isn’t your thing, I’ve suggested to friends to try switching out the few overtly religious words and substituting "Higher Power" or whatever works for you there.
Lucinda Williams
Joy
Lonely Girls
Reason to Cry
Changed The Locks
World Without Tears
No Doubt
It’s My Life
Peter Gabriel
Don’t Give Up
The Pretenders
Stop Your Sobbing
Hymn to Her
Thin Line Between Love and Hate
Sarah McLachlan
Think Sarah knows a thing or two about heartbreak? Look at this list! Seems almost anything she’s written is perfect for PoSAs. This deeply evocative collection of songs can be gifted to others wondering what you’re going through and who haven’t a clue what it’s like to be you right now.
Perfect Girl
Ice
Fallen
Stupid
Drifting
Answer
Fear
Time
Dirty Little Secret
Plenty
Mary (inspired by Sarah’s heart-wrenching encounter in India with a child prostitute she named Mary)
Circle
Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Forgiveness
I Will Remember You
Illusions of Bliss
Changes
U Want Me 2
The Path of Thorns
Bring On The Wonder
Do What You Have To Do
Angel
Building A Mystery
Tracy Chapman
Baby Can I Hold You
If Not Now, Then When
All That You Have Is Your Soul
The Who
The Song is Over
U2
Walk On
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