Category Archives: Step 3: Breaking Free
It’s Not Time to Give Up Yet!
Recently, 64 year old Diana Nyad became the first person to successfully swim the 110 miles from Cuba to Florida without the use of a shark cage. In doing so, she truly became the embodiment of perseverance. 64 years old. 110 miles in shark-infested open waters. I get tired DRIVING 110 miles . . .…
The Victim Trap
We have two choices in this life. No matter what life hands us, we can choose to be responsible or we can choose to sit back and be a victim. Responsible adults choose to move forward—to surrender—to persevere—to ask God to provide the power and the wisdom they need to change, grow, and heal.…
Opening the Prison Doors
“Before you can break out of prison, you must realize you are locked up.” – Anonymous So often we are think that our struggles are just because of “the way we were made.” We think we’re addicted, or depressed, or full of anger because we were created that way. But as David acknowledged in…
Sexual Anorexia?
Q. Our problem is different—we don’t have sex. It doesn’t feel right, but I guess we can eliminate sexual addiction as the root cause since there is no sex . . . right? A. Wrong. Consider the fact that there are two main types of inappropriate relationships with food: one is bulimia (overeating/purging); the other…
The Two Roads of Pain
Those struggling with compulsive sexual behaviors have only two choices and both of them involve pain: 1. We can continue acting out with the realization that using sex to meet our deep internal needs leads to increasingly destructive behavior. Moreover, it progressively damages our ability to function in personal relationships and grow spiritually in our…
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