Integrity Restored Podcast

Jim is joined once again by award-winning musician and founder of Spirit Power, Marty Rotella. Listen as they discuss the importance of hope in recovery and our daily lives.

1. Hope in the Lord and in those He has surrounded you with
2. Don't be afraid to fall - just get back up again
3. Love and hope are vital to growth and recovery

Keith Nester, author, podcaster and founder of the Rosary Crew and Down to Earth joins Jim to talk about how the holiday season can be triggering and what to do about it in five easy steps.

1. Add something & take something
2. Get focused
3. Have a plan

Jim is joined by Chandler Rogers founder of the Relay App to discuss how to incorporate relationships and support systems into recovery and why you need a team. Learn more at www.joinrelay.app/integrityrestored

1. It's tough to recover in isolation
2. learn how to change the focus from what I don't want to do to what I do want to do
3. Done right, recovery is about deep healing that impacts your whole self

Jim is joined by Sr. Tina Alfieri, diocesan hermit, licensed clinical social worker, and certified sex addiction therapist to discuss how our sexuality and spirituality don't need to be at odds but rather integrated in a holy and helpful pleasure response.

Listen in as they discuss:

1. There should be a connection not separation
2. Just because something feels good doesn't mean its good for me
3. We need to want to feel good without the destructive consequences

Jim is joined by Amber Rose founder of The Religious Hippie to discuss the ways social media can be detrimental to personal relationships, our emotions and our faith.

1. Social media can allow secret sin to take root
2. Increasing use of social media fuels isolation and loneliness
3. We can start to ignore " real life" relationships

Jim is joined by Magdala Ministries founder and author, Rachael Killackey. They discuss her book Love in Recovery and the steps and lessons learned in her journey to freedom from pornography addiction. Visit MagdalaMinistries.org and AveMariaPress.com for more info and to purchase the book.

1. Know that your first exposure to porn was not your fault
2. Replace old habits of lust with new ways to love
3. Share your story for the sake of freeing others

Science now supports the realization that our primal brain can be instrumental in forming addictions. In this episode, Jim discusses the science behind the reptile brain and how we can use our higher brain in recovery.

1. Get out of the reptile brain once temptation hits
2. Science supports the idea of behavior addictions and substance abuse disorders as having strong similarities in where they happen in the brain
3. Faith, morals, and determination can help us to break free of reptile thinking

Jim is joined by Stan Flynt , father of 3, husband and businessman to discuss his 2020 conversion to Catholicism and his 40 day Challenge to all of us. If you accept this challenge to attend Mass for 40 days please shoot us a note: [email protected] to tell us of your experience.

1. it's all about invitation
2. 40 days symbolizes in the Bible a time of testing, trial and triumph
3. Each of us has a specific calling from God, we hope this 40 day challenge helps you embrace yours

Jim is joined by Matt Aujero, founder of Fight Club Catholic to discuss how young men can find real meaning in the battle for purity, for themselves, for Christ and for their future bride or vocation.

1. Purity is not only for ourselves but for our future and our relationship with Christ.
2. Sexual health allows us to truly see Christ.
3. The world doesn't know we to be sexually healthy but God does.

Visit fightclubcatholic.com for more information

11In this episode, Jim is joined by Fr. Sean Byrnes , a priest in the Diocese of Wagga Wagga, Australia to discuss what C.S. Lewis and the Church actually say about masturbation.

1. It keeps us in "the prison of ourselves"
2. Our sexual desires and faculty are not the problem
3. God's great mercy and love is invested in each one of us, even with habitual struggles