Fear is natural and fear can be good; it's a kind of warning system. But what happens when fear goes beyond a healthy warning system and traps your mind in a vicious cycle of shame? In this episode, we will help you identify and understand your fear(s) in a way that offers you hope and a new vision for how to overcome fear. If you would like help in navigating your fears and learning to overcome them with grace and truth, please contact us.

Previous Podcasts and Media on Fear:

• Recovery Discovery 008: Overcoming Fear
• #763: Finding Rest by Speaking Out Your Deepest Fear
• #776: How to Learn (and Respond to) Your Fear System

Blog Post: Coward No More

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Jon Wilkes is a tech guy. He also struggled with porn. This is his story of how his struggle and skill set turned into an incredible tool to help individuals engage in self-control while online. In our conversation, we talk about the difference between accountability and self-control, some features of Jon's technology, and some positive and negative trends happening in the tech sphere.

To learn more about Jon and the resources he has built, visit Pluckeye.net.

Other Internet Filters and Monitors: https://filters.pluckeye.net/

If you are part of a tech company that would like to partner with Jon and Pluckeye, contact Jon.

Previous Podcast: Ideas for Self-Control

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Sex is everywhere in our culture. Pornography has been normalized. With such societal saturation of sexual topics and struggles many parents feel overwhelmed and paralyzed as to how to engage their kids on such topics and struggles.

In this episode, Rodney and Traci Wright from Pure Desire join us to share 10 principles to help parents talk more effectively with their children about sex. Parents, there is hope! Tune in to learn how to talk with your kids about sex in ways that are healthy and godly.

Books

How to Talk with Your Kids About Sex

Honest Talk: A New Perspective on Talking to Your Kids About Sex

More resources for Parents: http://Family.Bebroken.com

Previous Podcasts on Parenting:

• A Hopeful Mom Shares How to Have Difficult Conversations
• Talking to Your Kids About Sex: What Works and What Doesn't

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We say all the time that our deepest need is to be known and loved. But when it comes to being known, how well do you know yourself? Are you knowable? How do you really "know" yourself in order that others too might know you and love you?

In this episode, we share and analyze one man's story to help you understand how to "map" your own emotional system to get a clearer picture of who you are. This message is about hope and growth. Dive in with us to go deeper with yourself and others.

(While this episode focuses on men, the principles can apply to everyone.)

Previous episodes on emotional growth:

• A 7-Day Challenge for Emotional Growth
• Essentials of Emotional Growth
• Emotional Training for Men

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We all live with a core fear of some kind, a belief deep in our soul that states we aren't worthy or that we will be rejected or make a mistake and fail (and more; core fears are personal). Ultimately, core fear drives you to believe that others won't like you and they would reject you if they really knew you. In this episode, we brainstorm (on air) 50(ish) things to do when your core fear gets triggered. There is hope for responding to core fear in healthy ways and we want to model for you an exercise that can help you do this well.

Untangling Emotions by Groves and Smith

An app to help you when you are triggered (in any way): Triggered.app

Blog post: How are You Handling Stress? Try These 5 Exercises

Sexuality can be extremely confusing, even apart from all the brokenness and confusion that can surround it. In this episode, Dr. Juli Slattery helps us to understand how to speak the truth of God's design for sex in a way that is loving and compassionate -- not an easy task in today's world! Listen in to gain insights into how to talk with both believers and non-believers about what it means to be made in God's image as male and female.

Get Juli's book: Rethinking Sexuality

Christopher West's book: Our Bodies Tell God's Story

Blog by Juli: What's the Purpose of Your Sexuality, Really?

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Countless women suffer in silence from past sexual abuse. Are there any safe places within the church for women to tell their stories and heal from past abuse? In this episode, Dr. James Reeves shares his 30+ years of experience in helping women (and men) heal from sexual brokenness struggles, including sexual abuse. He shares a message of great hope and a new resource that is helping women around the globe to heal from past sexual abuse.

The Fearless Series for Women covers:

• The Prevalence of sexual abuse
• The Problems that manifest from abuse
• The Priority for the Church to get involved
• The Prevention of abuse
• The Pathway to healing

Get the Fearless Series: FS4Women.com

More Resources for Women: Women.Bebroken.com

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Sometimes we need an episode to just pour out thoughts and ideas to help men understand their own thoughts and engage their own emotions more successfully. This is such an episode. Listen in as Jonathan and Stephen talk about the following thoughts (and more):

• I need affection
• I did not think I was broken
• Growth is hard work
• My only consistency is inconsistency

For more resources: Men.Bebroken.com

Emotional Training for Men Webinar Series

Book: Untangling Emotions by Groves and Smith

Today's Sponsor: CovenantEyes -- try them out for FREE for 30 days at CovenantEyes.com and use promo code BEBROKEN.

How do others see you when it comes to emotional growth -- are you open or closed? Are you open to growing and learning and maturing, or are you closed, fixed, and "hunkered down" emotionally? In this episode, we share many stories as examples to help you understand whether you are open or closed, and how you can continue on a journey of greater emotional health and maturity.

Book: Untangling Emotions by Groves and Smith

Emotional Training for Men video series

Podcasts from the Archives:

Essential Truths to Heal and Mature Your Broken Emotional System

A Biblical Framework for Emotions

A 7-Day Challenge for Emotional Growth

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Does porn affect men the same at different ages and stages of life? Today's guest, Vern Tomke, will walk us through how porn affects men in each stage of life, starting in adolescence and moving all the way through age 60+. Vern also provides insights into how to beat porn at every age and stage -- and how to grow up into godly maturity and wisdom!

Free Download of this material: https://www.bandofbrothers.care/free-downloads

Learn more about Vern and his ministry at BandofBrothers.care.

More Resources for Men: Men.Bebroken.com.

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