Over the last few weeks, we’ve learned a lot! We looked at the brain chemicals behind porn, and how a person’s brain is literally rewired by porn for porn, using shame as one feeder system. We also looked at the role of allies, and how removing isolation breaks the shame…
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5 Reasons Purity Rings and Pledges Don’t Work
It might have been the most traumatizing day of my dramatic 13-year-old existence. My mom took me to the mall, and, only after walking into the department store, announced that she planned on buying me a purity ring. To me, she might as well have hijacked the PA system and…
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Porn and Your Three-in-One Brain
Brains are complicated. But some neuroscientists use “Triune Brain Theory” as a simple way of understanding the brain’s complexities. I call the three parts, the Gut Brain, the Heart Brain, and the Head Brain. The three parts of our brain show us that pornography poses a triple threat. It damages…
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4 Reasons Your Spouse May Keep Turning to Porn
My husband has been free from pornography for over four years, but I’m still discovering things about why he turned to porn all those decades ago. The truth? The reasons aren’t porn-specific. Porn, in many ways, is just like any other “hole-filler” that we use when we can’t quite figure…
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6 Steps to Experience Freedom as a Woman Trapped by Porn
I was angry. Emotions swirled in my head—confusion, sadness, shame, betrayal—as my tears hit the pew. I had just come from my first confession including my struggle with masturbation. Years of an addiction I didn’t realize I had because of the lies I believed. Lies I told myself. That was…
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Jesus Saved My Life: Robert Clifton’s Story
Not everyone who professes to be a Christian is really a Christian. That described me. I was raised by Christian parents who took me to church. I was taught right from wrong and knew many things from the Bible. At age eight I asked Jesus into my heart, walked an aisle, joined…
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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 thing to do? Playing outside? Having sleepovers with friends? For this 10-year-old, one of her…
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How Life Becomes More Fulfilling Without Watching Porn
One of the most severe things porn does to someone is shape their brain to start seeing men and women in real life the way they see men and women in porn.
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5 Key Questions About Sexual Wholeness With Dr. Carol Peters-Tanskley
Dr. Carol Peters-Tanksley is an expert on the integration of body, mind, and soul. She’s a speaker, author, physician, and an ordained doctor of ministry. She recently spoke with our podcast team about wholeness and sexuality and answered five questions that are absolutely vital for every pastor and ministry leader.…
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In Case of a Porn Relapse
“Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor.” –Horace “Relapse” means “deterioration after a period of improvement.” It’s an enemy to avoid in addiction recovery, and a porn relapse can make life hard if it happens. But in the long run, people who successfully stay off porn aren’t…
