Category Archives: Step 1: Understanding Addiction

General information pertinent to all addictions

The “R” Word

“Healing” sounds pleasant. We envision just going about our business as, over time (hopefully quickly), the wound closes, the resulting scar lightens and voila!, before we know it, we’re back to normal. If we’re one of the lucky ones, we might even receive an instantaneous healing from God. You know the kind. One minute you…

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Getting Closer

A few months ago we first mentioned the book I’ve been writing: Now Choose Life! — One Man’s Journey Out of the Grip of Pornography. After a significant number of set-backs, I’m happy to say that we’re finally making good progress and, if all continues to go as planned, the book should be available on…

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What Exactly is Sexual Addiction?

Sexual addiction is one of the most misunderstood of all compulsions. Even many professionals do not understand the root and treatment of sexual addiction. Contrary to what it seems, sexual addiction is not really a thirst for sex at all . . . it is a thirst for God—for TRUE intimacy with the Creator AND…

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Words from Edgar

I‘m interrupting our series to share something surprising that I ran across today: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1847)     It appears that author Edgar Allan Poe had a very difficult life. His father abandoned the family when he was just a year old and his mother died a year later from pulmonary tuberculosis. These two tragedies…

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The Truth About Untruths

Why the lies?        Today the U.S. is celebrating President’s day, a time we especially honor our first president, George Washington. In addition to being our first elected leader, he is known for being one of the Founding Fathers of our country, a great General, and a man of integrity and honesty. A…

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