By Peter C. Kleponis, PhD, SATP, CSAT-C In a blog post I recently read on NoFapp.com, men posted stories about how building with Legos helped them overcome their addiction to pornography and masturbation: (https://www.nofap.com/forum/index.php?threads/100-days-and-100-legos-later.12936/). This doesn’t surprise me. One of the keys to healthy recovery is to develop healthy hobbies. While I hate to make […]
Valentine’s Day is a wonderful time to share gifts, time, and experiences to show love in marriage, friendship, and kinship. Yet, we can see that our culture’s definition of love is not a healthy one. The versions of love we see on screen are usually bad caricatures of authentic love: we see one character either […]
Our friends at the National Center On Sex Exploitation (NCOSE) recently conducted a great webinar by Lisa Thompson called “The Truth About Sex Trafficking”. Check it out here if you are so inclined. A couple of the major points from the Federal Human Trafficking Report in 2017: Sex trafficking is 20x more prevalent than labor trafficking 56% […]
School mornings were about to get a great deal more stressful. A week after I committed to driving my daughter to and from school every day she excitedly informed me that she had gotten a place in not just one, but two ensemble choirs. My excitement was dulled when I realized this meant our drive […]
I saw this article entitled “Generation of child web addicts: Youngsters are becoming so obsessed with the internet they spend more time on YouTube than with friends as parents struggle to keep control of their online usage” and the included infographic today and frankly was not surprised, but boy, am I concerned. This article doesn’t speak of […]
Four out of the top 20 websites in 2018 were pornography sites. That’s 20% and that doesn’t even count the pornographic content that was viewed on other popular sites, such as Reddit or Instagram. Jim O’Day, Executive Director of Integrity Restored, digs deeper into the statistics and what they have to tell us about our […]
by Peter C. Kleponis, Ph.D., SATP, CSAT-C Many people who struggle with pornography use wonder if they might be addicted to it. Here are six common warning signs for addiction: Viewing pornography frequently or binging:There are many ways that people who are addicted can use pornography. For some, there is a need to view it […]
Some days, the fact that my healing journey has no definitive ending date is frustrating and exhausting. Yet other days I am able to see my journey as a gift and an adventure. I wonder if my “healing journey” is really just a name for what I am called to do each and every day… […]
We all send our kids to school thinking they’ll be safe. They’ll be learning in a nurturing environment that brings out the best in these young minds. We are rightfully outraged and distraught when we learn that children’s safety is jeopardized through horrible events like school shootings. We want to do something, and we […]
Porn. The very word makes most people very uncomfortable. It is rarely spoken aloud. Rather, it is nervously spoken in hushed tones to prevent any passersby from getting the wrong idea. Pornography itself does not hide. It is estimated that the porn industry is bigger than Major League Baseball and the National Football League – […]
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