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Five Tips for Leaving Porn Behind in 2020

January 2, 2020

Let’s make a New Year’s resolution that will have an eternal impact, improve our relationships, and draw us closer to the Lord. This year I challenge you to break the cycle, live in freedom, and be delivered from the addiction of pornography.

Imagination: Practicing Purity in Prayer

December 11, 2019

As you struggle to envision a way of life and love rooted in a purified sexuality, you may feel that living that way is sometimes more illusory than the pornographic fantasies that have enslaved us. But, living in a renewed sense of the reality of God’s creation of us as men and women in his image is not a fantasy.

Taking Simple, Concrete Steps this Advent to Prepare the Way of the Lord

December 4, 2019

Setting limits to our tech usage and safeguarding our devices this Advent might seem like a strange way to prepare for Christmas, but Saint John the Baptist challenges us to “Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight His paths!” If the pathways of our minds and hearts are more like shallow streams running quickly in every direction, the coming of Christ will pass us by like a faint memory.

How a Rule of Life Leads to Freedom

November 13, 2019

Our desires, our thought patterns, our interior movements, and when and where we fall are all affected by the external world. A personal rule of life is a way of creating an exterior world that informs our interior world in a healthy, life-giving way.

Catholic, Research-Based Workshop for Pornography Addiction

October 23, 2019

During this 3-day workshop, attendees work to regain trust in their relationships that have been negatively affected by betrayal trauma. Using research-based tools, we help men dig into the underlying wounds and roots beneath their sexual behaviors. We have conducted nine workshops to date and have three to four scheduled per year.