Healthy Intimacy with God and Others Brings Freedom: Ryan's Story, Part Two

In this episode, Ryan shares the path God revealed that led to his healing. He shares with us how he took steps out of hiding into a lifestyle marked by radical honesty. Ryan shares how hesitant he was to trust the principles and the community of a 12- Step program. He also talks about the freedom that came with being accepted in the middle of his mess. 

Ryan is incredibly articulate about the way God’s grace empowered him to accept the limitations of his flesh and still choose to live fully out of his identity in Christ. 

What You’ll Learn

  • Why Ryan struggled to trust in the context of a 12-step group

  • What he realized porn had impacted most in his relationships with women

  • How Ryan slowly began to embrace a lifestyle of radical honesty

  • Why we have learn to distinguish between the flesh and our identity in Christ

  • What it looks like to practice disrupting patterns of shame

Links Mentioned:

Sex Addicts Anonymous (SA)

Healing Wounds of Sexual Addiction by Mark Lasser

For partners of addicts:

S-Anon https://sanon.org/

CoSA

Celebrate Recovery (CR)

Revive40 Recovery Groups 


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