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Jen Ferguson is a wife, author, and speaker who is passionate about helping couples thrive in their marriages. She and her husband, Craig, have shared their own hard story in their book, Pure Eyes, Clean Heart: A Couple’s Journey to Freedom from Pornography. They continue to help couples along in their journeys to freedom and intimacy. She’s also a mama to two girls and two high-maintenance dogs, which is probably why she runs. A lot. Even in the Texas heat.

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7 Conversation Starters to Discuss Your Porn Addiction With Your Spouse

Your journey to freedom from pornography most likely didn’t take only one conversation, one moment of healing, or one act of repentance. Instead, it’s been made up (or will be made up) of many rounds…

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12 Secret (and not-so-secret) Ways Porn Changed Our Marriage

I will never say I’m grateful for pornography or that my husband, Craig, brought it into our marriage. However, I am grateful that God used his addiction to refine us and give us the marriage…

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If Resolutions Fade: 6 Timeless Tools to Quit Porn

How are your New Year’s resolutions going? If you’re like the majority of the population (about 80-90%), you’ve given up by now, about six weeks in. All those lofty goals have gone out the window…

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If You Give a Kid a Kindle: How to Prepare Your Kids for New Devices

As I was working today, an e-mail with the subject line, “Put some fun under the tree!” popped into my inbox. It was, of course, from a large consumer electronics company advertising their latest and…

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When Holidays Aren’t Happy: 4 Ways to Deal with Grief and Porn Addiction

My friend sent me a SOS text the other night. She had discovered a movie on their cable account that she suspected her husband had watched. Her text contained the normal anger and anxiety that…

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Science and Porn: What Are You Risking If They’re Wrong?

Most of us have convictions. I’m not talking about the kind handed down from judges and juries, but a fixed, or at least firm, belief in what is right and wrong, okay and not okay.…

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5 Things to Do About #MeToo

Scrolling through my Facebook feed earlier this week, every other post resounded with #metoo. If you haven’t seen it, you may be asking, “Me too, what?” There are now variations of the original post, but…

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12 Ways You Can Turn the Tide of a Pornified Culture

“Who am I to say that porn is wrong?” “It’s not affecting anyone but themselves, so why does it matter?” “Those girls, they’re choosing to do these things. It’s how they make a living.” I could go…

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Why the Church Must Be a No-Shame Zone

When I found out about Craig’s porn addiction, the last place I thought of calling for help was our church. First of all, I wasn’t prepared to ask anyone for help. If anything, I thought…