In the first few moments after I found my husband Craig’s digital footprints that led me to his favorite porn sites, all I could see, feel, and speak revolved around rage. I was embarrassed (because clearly, I was not satisfying), angry (did we not just speak wedding vows to forsake…
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Jump-Start Men’s Health Month by Quitting Porn
On May 31, 1994, President Bill Clinton signed into law a bill that established National Men’s Health Week, to be observed June 12-19. What began as a week-long emphasis soon morphed into an annual Men’s Health Month, observed throughout the month of June to heighten awareness of men’s health issues…
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"My counselor said Covenant Eyes was a non-negotiable if I wanted to break free from porn addiction."
I just wanted to take a quick moment to let you know how Covenant Eyes has not only saved my marriage but restored me as a man. I had been involved in porn for several years, and after I got a laptop for my business, it is like something opened…
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Partner or Porn Police? 6 Encouragements When You Feel Like a Babysitter
Preface: This article focuses on the experience lived by partners of sex and pornography addicts. However, if you’re a porn user yourself, I warmly invite you to keep reading! If your partner is able and willing to do so, he or she may play a positive role in protecting you…
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Support, Heal, and Empower: A Summit Just for Women
As a young woman still in the throes of my porn addiction, I nearly choked on my drink when Anne asked for my help with her porn recovery. I wondered silently to myself, did she somehow know my secret and was just trying to expose me? For what seemed like…
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Battling Porn: It isn’t a fair fight
Shortly after my book, No More Hiding, No More Shame: Freedom from Pornography Addiction was released, I was approached by a television reporter who was doing a series on addiction. The series is called “Addiction Wars.” The segment I was featured in is called “Sex: The New Crack?” We taped…
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Secrets and Shame: Why we need to confess our porn struggles to others
“Everyone needs to write their stronghold down on a piece of paper and give it to your accountability partner.” My blood started to boil, and I set my jaw. Never before had I been more aware of my rights. You can’t make me do this, I thought. You can’t make me tell you…
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Christian Porn T-Shirts
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How Science Helped Me Understand My Porn Use
I pride myself on having a strong work ethic and for being a self-starter. I’ve always enjoyed accomplishing a list of to-do’s, even adding things that I’ve already accomplished to a list just so I can cross them off. I recently re-took Tom Rath’s Strengths Finder survey, which had “achiever”…
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Yes, Porn is a Big Deal: A Response to Elite Daily
Dear Alexia, I am a Licensed Professional Counselor as well as a Certified Clinical Sexual Addiction Specialist, living and working in Houston, TX. I am writing you in response to your article on Elite Daily, titled, “It’s Not a Big Deal Your Man Watches Porn, It’s a Bigger Deal That…