Pure Desire’s understanding of healing and freedom is built on a family systems model. Without this model, making sense of our story and our healing journey is impossible. This is the fourth and final foundation of Pure Desire’s approach to healing and freedom. In this final Foundations episode, we explain why a family systems model is so effective in helping people take back their lives from unwanted sexual behavior and betrayal trauma. We discuss how our family of origin shapes our unwanted patterns, why healing for the entire marriage/family is essential for true restoration, and more.

290 - Pure Desire Foundations: Family Systems Model

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Helping the next generation is not only about teaching what NOT TO DO. It also includes teaching them what TO DO. 
On today’s episode, we’re joined by Barb Winters, founder of HopefulMom.net and author of Sexpectations. 
Barb talks us through her experience in helping her children break free of pornography addiction and equipping them with the tools they need for healthy relationships. Barb speaks from her personal experience: as a parent not knowing where to start and now an expert in the area of equipping parents to help their kids.

359 - Helping Next Gen Navigate Healthy Relationships w/ Barb Winters

It’s here—a NEW group resource for single women! 
What does it look like to live sexually healthy as a single woman?
Today, authors Heather Kolb and Ashley Jameson join us to talk through our new resource for single women, Authentically You. 
They talk through who is the target audience, what makes Authentically You unique, the differences between this new resource and other resources we have for women, and much more!

358 - Becoming Authentically You (Women's Takeover)

“Separation” is usually a swear word for church folk. 
This is understandable when it’s done wrong. But separation can actually be a healthy tool used for the restoration of a marriage. 
Today, we’re joined by a Pure Desire Clinician, Eileen Fagan, who defines a healthy or “therapeutic” separation and the benefits it can give a struggling couple. We talk through natural hesitations or fears with marital separation, when NOT to separate, and the importance of professional help and support in marital separations.

357 - Healthy Separation

When Christians are faced with the word “addiction,” there can be a significant reaction against something we don’t see clearly in Scripture. The word “addiction” doesn’t naturally seem to fit into our theological framework. 

Today, we’re joined by author and speaker, Ben Bennett, to give us a new framework for reconciling addiction and theology. We explore how Scripture speaks directly to addiction, how to integrate psychology and theology, and how the recovery and healing journey can enhance our faith in Jesus.

356 - Reconciling Addiction & Theology

The term “mental health” can be fuzzy. Are we talking about anxiety? Depression? Something more? All of the above? 

Ben Bennett joins us today to talk about the connection between viewing pornography and mental health issues. Ben speaks of porn’s role in his personal battle with depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideations and how recovery impacts our mental health, our faith in Jesus, and our ability to follow Him.

290 - Pure Desire Foundations: Family Systems Model

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