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Pride and Porn: The Risk of Overestimating Your Willpower
These days, we’re often told to believe in ourselves, build our self-esteem, and take pride in our abilities and accomplishments. But this pride might be what undermines our ability to deal with deeply ingrained struggles—like…
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Porn Habit vs. Porn Addiction: Is There a Difference?
What’s the difference between being addicted to porn and merely having a porn habit? Habits are behaviors that have become automatic over time. Addiction involves a deeper change in your neurochemistry. Habits might be changed…
I Was the “Perfect” Christian Girl and Addicted to Porn
I was introduced to pornography toward the end of elementary school. As a young Christian girl who had never imagined, seen or heard about such things, this exposure planted a seed in my mind that…
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What are you willing to do to overcome porn?
I’ve been working at Covenant Eyes for almost 20 years, and during…
I’ve been working at Covenant Eyes for almost 20 years, and during that time I’ve talked with thousands of people on their journey away from porn. There have been teens striving to use technology with…
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From Pain to Freedom: Breaking the Cycle of Trauma and Addiction
“Cry, you baby!” she shouted, towering over me and slapping my tiny…
“Cry, you baby!” she shouted, towering over me and slapping my tiny ten-year-old face. Two neighbor girls had locked me in a room and violently sexually assaulted me on a cold autumn afternoon. The memories…
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How Gratitude Helps Overcome Porn
“Let’s go around the table and say something we’re thankful for” is…
“Let’s go around the table and say something we’re thankful for” is a clichéd Thanksgiving tradition. But this simple exercise may be more important than you realize—especially if you’re fighting the temptation to look at…
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Heath Lambert on the Power of Thanksgiving Over Porn
“Porn is only consumed by thankless people.” Dr. Heath Lambert isn’t coddling…
“Porn is only consumed by thankless people.” Dr. Heath Lambert isn’t coddling readers in his book Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace. While the quote from his book might sound like…
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The Anti-Resolution Approach To Change
The idea of waiting until the calendar flips to begin a transformation…
The idea of waiting until the calendar flips to begin a transformation can feel overwhelming, especially when winter days are short, dark, and filled with post-holiday exhaustion. Instead of setting yourself up for failure by…
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7 Keys to Integrity: A Student’s Perspective
Every year Covenant Eyes provides scholarship opportunities for students who use Covenant…
Every year Covenant Eyes provides scholarship opportunities for students who use Covenant Eyes. The applicants write essays in which they share their experiences, struggles, and victories—and their perspectives on what it means to use today’s…
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5 Ways Accountability Can Deepen Your Relationship With God
You probably recognize that accountability is a powerful tool for behavior change.…
You probably recognize that accountability is a powerful tool for behavior change. The business world, the self-help world, and the porn-recovery world all acknowledge the vital importance of accountability. But it can be much…
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When Porn Leads To Despair
For the enemy has pursued me, crushing me to the ground, making…
For the enemy has pursued me, crushing me to the ground, making me live in darkness like those long dead. My spirit is weak within me; my heart is overcome with dismay. Psalm 143:3-4 Has…
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Everything Changed With a Video
I was a 14-year-old Catholic. I sang with the church choir, attended…
I was a 14-year-old Catholic. I sang with the church choir, attended Mass every weekend, and participated in youth group as often as I could. My friends and family had always warned me about the…
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Willing To Be Healed
Ten years old. That’s when it started. I had begun to feel…
Ten years old. That’s when it started. I had begun to feel strange urges to look at women without their clothes on, but couldn’t bring myself to talk about these feelings with my parents. Instead,…