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Crystal Renaud Day is a pastoral counselor and certified coach with over a decade of experience working with women, couples, and teen girls. She holds a Master of Arts in Pastoral Counseling: Life Coaching from Liberty University. Crystal owns and operates Living on Purpose Coaching & Pastoral Counseling and is the founding director of SheRecovery.com (formerly Dirty Girls Ministries), an online ministry helping women overcome porn and sexual addiction. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, ABC News, CNN, Christianity Today, The 700 Club, and more. She has authored several books including 90 Days to Wholeness and Dating Done Right.

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Shame Doesn’t Know You: Ending the Life Sentence

Women who struggle with pornography all experience it in different ways—from Internet porn, to erotica and fantasy, or a combination of all of it and more. But there is one recurring theme among women who…

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Support, Heal, and Empower: A Summit Just for Women

As a young woman still in the throes of my porn addiction, I nearly choked on my drink when Anne asked for my help with her porn recovery. I wondered silently to myself, did she…

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It’s Never Too Late to Quit Porn: Crystal’s Freedom Story

Go ahead and imagine yourself at the age of 10. Can you see yourself? Imagine for a moment that you are back in time as your 10-year-old self. What do you remember as your favorite…

Women struggle with porn too…

As the Founder of Dirty Girls Ministries and author of Dirty Girls Come Clean, I have been blessed to be interviewed by quite a few news media outlets. People are often fascinated that I, as…

Dirty Girls Ministries: Accountability Turns to “Meetability”

Addiction creates isolation and causes women to feel alone. One of the things we hear a lot or even most often from women at Dirty Girls Ministries is the desire to have an accountability partner, mentor…

My Biggest Addiction Isn’t Porn

For as long as I can remember I have had an issue with pride. I can remember back to the 4th grade when I was given a solo in the school Christmas program. I was…

Cheapening God’s Grace

I recently found a “goals” type of school paper I wrote when I was just 16 years old. Behind pretty words about my new-found faith and elaborate life goals hid a girl who was hopeless.…

A New Women’s Lib

From Roe vs. Wade to lesbianism to birth control, women’s liberation movements have made it their platform to give women a right over their bodies. Some good and some bad have come out of similar…

Book Review – L.I.F.E. Guide for Women

What can I say about L.I.F.E. Guide for Women? I truly can’t praise this workbook enough. Marnie Ferree has written the first resource I have found that directly and candidly discusses sexual addiction among women.…