Evelyn and Aaron dig into how to deal with blame shifting and how to break the habit.

Evelyn discusses some common styles of blame shifting and gives examples of what they may sound like within a relationship with someone on the spectrum of sexually compulsive behaviours and addictions. She also talks about a common teaching of recovery books and how they can perpetuate blame shifting.

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Evelyn and Aaron discuss and define empathy. Covering why its so important in recovery, what it does and what it looks like to have a lack of empathy in your relationship.   Empathy is so much more than just understanding what a person might be feeling, and its key to a recovery that goes beyond just sobriety. So how do we grow in it? listen and find out.

Evelyn talks about how the person struggling with sexually compulsive behaviours and addictions often begins to over sexualize the people and world aroung them. But what affect does this have on their spouse and how can they face this struggle?

Evelyn and Aaron discuss some of the hang ups in recovery and how to overcome them.

This first conversation covers the idea of putting off and putting on as well as some of the common things that are overlooked in recovery that need to be put off.

Evelyn shares a little of her struggles as of late but dives into what she's been doing to face it. How we face our trials, heartache and hardships matters and we must learn how to put off and put on. Breaking down the biggest hurdles of walking through the struggles and helping you find truth and what must be put on.

Evelyn and Aaron discuss something that most recovery programs ignore... wet dreams in recovery. 

Often times this struggle is ignored, left out of discussions in recovery groups/programs and made out to be no big deal.  But what if it is ultimately stagnating his recovery?  What if it is a bigger deal than its been made out to be and is actually an indicator of a larger issue continuing through their recovery journey. 

Here is the nightly journal questions mentioned in this episode...

Evelyn and Aaron break down a biblical perspective on Marriage, Sex and Intimacy so that we can have a better understanding on God's view of pornography.

This is an area that many add or take away from and its important that we come back to the Word of God on each part of this issue. We will be coming back to this again, because there are lots of FAQs surrounding What God created and What goes against it.

What is relapse and how should you handle it in the Recovery Journey?

Evelyn tackles this tough topic and gives specific signs to be looking for of true recovery, along with questions to ask yourself when faced with responding to a relapse.  Relapses should not be looked at as inevitable but rather as something that is unacceptable, so they do everything in their power to not allow that to happen.