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Break Free From Lust in Six Easy Steps
A young woman wrote in asking me why there couldn’t be a twelve-step program for breaking free from pornography. How many of us would jump at the offer of “Six Easy Steps to Break Free From Pornography”? It would be great! A best-seller, and a world-changer… But that’s not how it works. Our Golden Cow We like easy. We wish that freedom were easy. We want freedom to be reliant on our own strength. Really, we want to maintain some semblance of control. We want to know what we have to do to break free. If you’ve ever read through the story of Israel as captured in the Old Testament,…
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Letting Go of the Shame and Regret of Sexual Sin
Today, I am happy to feature a guest post written by Christian author and speaker, Shelley Hitz. Shelley has co-authored a book on Christian women and pornography addiction. I have read through the book and I will say that it could be a valuable resource to so many of you who contact me asking what to do next. I think we are often hardest on ourselves. Don’t you agree? And it usually surfaces in our thoughts, what I call stinkin’ thinkin’, where we beat ourselves up for the regrets and mistakes of our past. I understand this very well. You see, as a married Christian woman I struggled with pornography…