I just finished reading a quick article online by Lauren Vinopal, titled, “Porn Makes Men Think Women Will Do Just About Anything”. The title caught my eye and as the Executive Director of Integrity Restored, it resonated with me. After hundreds of hours of conversations with both men and women who regularly consume pornography, with […]
Hello, my name is Paul and I am a grateful believer who suffers from anxiety, depression and pornography addiction. Hello, my name is Susan and I am a grateful believer who suffers from my husband’s addiction and it’s effects on our family. This is our testimony. Paul: I was laid-off from my job in […]
Grace is the love and mercy of God, freely given to us by God because He desires for us to have it. He is a good and gracious gift-giving Lord. And all He asks is that we be humble and grateful gift receivers. As women, God has gifted us with receptivity, an inherent quality of […]
We are living in an age where technology allows us to connect with people from all across the globe. Unfortunately, our social media habits often end in more isolation than connection. For example, we see the highlights of someone else’s life. We then start to focus on what they do have and what we don’t […]
Suffering from PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) makes living in the present moment not only challenging but very often impossible. My brain and my body spend a great deal of time “living” in the past or perhaps re-living the past, is more accurate. Flashbacks and body memories in the form of chronic triggering pain pull me […]
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 […]
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 […]
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… […]
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 – […]
In June, the World Health Organization (WHO) updated its International Classification of Diseases, the manual for classifying conditions, addictions and diagnosis (ICD). This document was last updated in the 90s, which explains why things like gaming addiction and online porn addiction were not included. Yet in the latest update ICD-11, the WHO recognizes online gaming […]
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