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Lisa Eldred is the Educational Content Strategist at Covenant Eyes, and has 10 years of experience in researching and writing about porn addiction and recovery. She has authored numerous blog posts and ebooks, including More Than Single, Hobbies and Habits, and New Fruit, which was co-authored with Crystal Renaud Day. Her writing about faith and fandoms can be found at Love Thy Nerd.

“My Husband Watches Porn”: 3 Stages to Your Recovery

The following is an excerpt from Porn and Your Husband: A Recovery Guide for Wives. Anger. Mistrust. Loneliness. When your husband watches porn he has betrayed your trust. Maybe this is the first time you’ve…

5 Easy Steps to Wreck Your Child’s Future

Have you heard of Honey Boo Boo? Child pageant contestant Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson’s show, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, was recently extended. According to TLC, the show “follows Alana and her family: stay-at-home mom…

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Warning Before Upgrading to Windows 8

As you may be aware, Microsoft is releasing the Windows 8 operating system on Friday, October 26. We’re working hard to ensure that our software works perfectly with it. Currently, we have a Beta (test) version…

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Real Stories of Victory Over Porn

T.D. Benton was in third grade when he first started dabbling in porn. Back then, the primary mode of access was magazines. When he first went online, it was like a whole new world opened…

Moving Past the Placebo: Using Reports to Develop Deeper Accountability Relationships

When should you fire your Accountability Partner? Tim, a reader of the Covenant Eyes blog, raised this question shortly after he added an additional Accountability Partner. His original Partners were failing him in three ways:…

How Porn is Ruining Our Future…and What We Can Do About It

In the recent summer blockbuster The Avengers, the character Captain America has been recently awoken from a 70-year sleep. Throughout the film is a running gag about how out-of-touch he is with modern life; he…

5 Tips to Accountability on Smartphones

Until recently, there was an app called “Girls Around Me” that consolidated public data from Facebook and Foursquare and listed the females (or males) nearby. It was legal, if creepy, and it was the perfect…

Study: Violent video games alter brain functions in young men

The debate has been raging for years as to whether violent video games actually result in violent behavior. Intuitively, it seems that it would. However, researchers like Henry Jenkins* and Cheryl Olson have found few…

4 Reasons Accountability is Critical for Singles

“It is not good for man to be alone.” If you’re at all familiar with this verse, you’re probably used to hearing it in the context of marriage. Perhaps you’ve heard it in a sermon…