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Covenant Eyes' plain-English guide to the ten withdrawal symptoms people most often hit in the first weeks after quitting porn — mood swings, insomnia, anxiety, depression, intrusive thoughts — and why they happen.
Glenn Stanton lays out, in ten numbered points, why historic Christianity holds the position it does on sexuality and marriage — including the distinction between temptation and sin, and the insistence that no one's worth is reduced to their sexuality.
A 101-exercise Christian workbook by Dr. Doug Weiss — assignments, tips and survival techniques drawn from decades of clinical practice, designed to be worked through rather than read.
Don Williams re-walks the twelve steps with Jesus at the center, arguing that addiction grows in an emptiness only Christ fills — a bridge for Christians who find standard twelve-step language too vague.
Allen Berger names the twelve ways people with real sobriety sabotage it — the failure modes that show up in year three, not week two.
Built for the man who realises, halfway through recovery, that something happened to him — with an anonymous chat and weekly online groups. The name is the statistic: at least one in six.
Joe Dallas distills 25 years of counseling Christian men into a 77-page, five-step plan — short enough to finish in a sitting and structured enough to actually start on.
A nine-minute, five-step walkthrough of how to actually stop: name the problem, cut off access, learn your triggers, calm your nervous system in the moment, and deal with what's underneath.
Six real marriages that survived — a decade-long hidden addiction, a separation that worked, an ultimatum that became a turning point. Each summary links to the full story.
Sam Allberry, writing as a single man, takes apart the assumptions the church makes about singleness — including the one that quietly frames it as a waiting room.
A 236-page, 90-day devotional and coloring journal written by and for women in porn recovery — Scripture, reflection questions and space to draw, on the days when writing is more than you can manage.
Call or text 988, any hour, free and confidential. Trained counselors for anyone in crisis or thinking about suicide, and for anyone worried about someone else.
A free four-video course on what accountability actually requires — honesty, edging, program calls — featuring voices from Covenant Eyes, Porn Free Radio and Samson Society, plus the Checking In Form BraveHearts uses in mentoring.
A Georgia-based virtual counseling and coaching practice treating compulsive sexual behavior and betrayal trauma through the Inner Child Model. The linked article on managing versus curing addiction is no longer on the site.
Written for the woman in the first weeks after discovery: seven self-care steps, guidance on confronting a husband, and journaling questions in every chapter — from two licensed counselors at Focus on the Family.
A free Covenant Eyes ebook on biblical accountability — what it actually is, the mistakes that make it collapse, and a discussion guide for two people starting out. Built on twenty years of watching these relationships work and fail.
A short, practical book on how to talk with your kids about sex — from Todd Bowman, who directs the Sexual Addiction Treatment Provider certificate program at MidAmerica Nazarene University.
Cleveland Clinic's clinical explainer on anhedonia — the flatness and inability to feel pleasure that shows up in post-acute withdrawal — covering what causes it in the brain, the two forms it takes, and what actually treats it.
The searchable directory of clinicians certified in partner trauma — the people who run formal disclosure properly, and who won't treat a betrayed wife as codependent.
The certifying body for biblical counselors — its Find a Counselor directory is the practical piece for most readers, alongside certification training, an annual conference and a free essay and podcast library.
The standard reference on habit design — cue, craving, response, reward, and habit stacking. Secular and not about pornography, but it's the mechanics behind every 'replace the habit' instruction in the rest of this directory.
Dr. Juli Slattery's ministry for the sexual questions the church tends to skip — the Java with Juli podcast, video Q&As, book studies and small-group curriculum, built around a theology of sexuality rather than a purity-rules checklist.
A donor-funded ministry that translates teen culture for parents — the weekly Culture Translator email, downloadable guides on specific topics, and short video conversation kits for the talks you don't know how to start.
A Christ-centered ministry with four separate tracks — men, wives, families and churches — including the GTF men's intensive, Wives Care Groups, online study groups, Pure Life Academy courses and a counselor referral network.
A ministry built around church leaders rather than individuals — trained advocates, an anonymous helpline, workshops and multi-year restorative programs, funded so that pastors at partnering denominations get access free.
Jessica Harris has been writing here since 2009 — a free library organised by who is asking: women who struggle, wives, parents, and churches that don't know women do this.
Jessica Harris's own account: at seventeen she was trying to figure out how to get into the porn industry. A memoir of a woman's pornography addiction inside Christian schooling, and of the grace that met it.
An international inner-healing prayer ministry — one to three ministers walk you through lies believed, wounds, unforgiveness and patterns to renounce. The ministry states plainly that Sozo is not counseling.
Bethel's counseling arm and the birthplace of Sozo — clinical counseling, inner-healing prayer, and an addiction recovery program run with Shasta Blue Sky, in person in Redding or virtually in five languages.
Nashville-based Christian intensives since 1997, run as separate 3–4 day workshops for men, women, partners, couples and teens, with 10-week online aftercare. Every adult clinician holds a CSAT or CPTT credential.
A free download arguing that accountability alone doesn't produce change — brotherhood does. Available in PDF, Kindle and EPUB at no cost.
Roughly 25 verses grouped by where you are in the fight — the struggle, the cause, help from Christ, inward change, the way of escape, uniting with Christ — rather than listed alphabetically.
Mike Genung's ministry running recovery groups for men, women, couples and teens, plus counseling, a radio show, and the one-day 'From Porn to Grace' conferences — with offices in Arizona, the UK and Italy.
A 14-day residential intensive for Christian men in Longmont, Colorado — capped at ten men, master's-level therapists, EMDR and trauma-focused work, with a free virtual partner support program for wives.
Michael Leahy's 501(c)(3) serving two audiences deliberately kept separate — men in sexual addiction recovery and women in betrayal trauma — through Accelerator programs, certified mentors, virtual summits and mentor training.
Two routes into mentoring: one-to-one work with Michael Leahy for men, or a searchable directory of Certified Professional Mentors serving men, women and couples.
Russell Willingham's clinical-pastoral account of why sexual addiction takes hold — the false beliefs underneath it — and how healing works when temptation is constant and the internet never closes.
A physical tag you stick somewhere inconvenient: tap your phone to it to lock chosen apps, and the only way back in is to walk to the tag and tap again. $59, one purchase, no subscription.
Troy Haas writes from both sides — his own fall and his professional work at HopeQuest — on what reconstruction actually takes after sexual addiction has taken something apart.
A Christ-centred response to domestic abuse — survivor advocacy and Restore groups, plus training for churches that have handled this badly and know it.
Jared Wilson separates the four things churches collapse into one: fellowship and office, forgiveness and trust. Free, and the piece to put in front of an elder board before they decide anything.
The most widely available Christian recovery group in the world — 35,000+ churches, free, no signup, walk in. Not porn-specific, but usually the only meeting within driving distance.
Holds a traditional sexual ethic while being genuinely useful to a parent whose child just came out — free pastoral papers, and a posture that assumes the person in front of you is a person.
A plain, free guide to recognizing child sexual abuse — warning signs, grooming tactics, how to talk to a child you're worried about, and how reporting works in Washington State.
The institutional home of biblical counseling — a counseling practice, a training school, an annual conference, and a deep catalogue of minibooks on specific struggles, including sexual sin.
An Australian grassroots campaign group that gets results — 42 wins in a year, from billboards taken down to sexually violent games pulled. Currently campaigning on AI misuse and child sex abuse dolls.
A free ebook for the parent who just found something on a child's device — a four-step conversation framework, sample scripts, and the difference between exposure and addiction, so the first reaction isn't the wrong one.
Covenant Eyes' prevention ebook, arguing that filters matter less than connection — with chapters on hard conversations, emotional bonds, and the loneliness that drives teen porn use. Free, in English and Spanish.
The 25-year-old standard in Christian accountability software. Victory works by showing an ally what you're seeing rather than by blocking — plus Strive, a 21-day detox for men, and Arise, a 21-day program for women.
The largest free library of writing on porn recovery from a Christian perspective, organized by category — addiction, Scripture, marriage, research, masturbation, accountability — with some articles clinically reviewed.
Gratitude is more than just a feeling; it’s a biblical practice that can transform our lives and relationships. Throughout scripture, we see God calling us to be thankful for His blessings and to recognize His…
BraveHearts' subscription for betrayed partners: 100+ training videos, 100+ worksheets with daily summaries and scripture, expert interviews on ten core topics, facilitator-led D3 groups and a private community — under a dollar a day.
Andrew Comiskey's ministry, best known for Living Waters — a facilitated small-group program on sexual and relational healing — plus Crosscurrent for those working through questions of sexuality and Oasis for family and friends.
Brad Huddleston's family digital-detox plan, built on the fact that the people who design these products restrict them for their own children — with concrete tools rather than a lecture about screen time.
Crystal Renaud's account of her own addiction, beginning at age ten, alongside a six-step recovery framework — one of the first books to say out loud that pornography addiction is not only a men's problem.
Nick and Michelle Stumbo tell their own story — a long pornography addiction, the guilt and shame around it, and a marriage that was actually restored. A couple's account rather than an expert's lecture.
For a long time I thought walking in purity was the finish line. Get there, and everything else follows. My marriage heals. My wife respects me again. The guilt lifts. I stop hating myself at the end of the day. I stop…
Clinical neuroscientist Caroline Leaf's 5-Step Neurocycle for working with intrusive and habitual thoughts — delivered through a 500+ episode podcast, the Neurocycle app, books and courses.
Thirty years of practice in Colorado Springs — 3- and 5-day intensives, individual and couples counseling, and a large catalogue of books and classes. Weiss coined the term 'intimacy anorexia,' which he treats as a distinct problem from addiction.
A 45-title library of age-graded lesson plans and books for parents — how to talk about sex, pornography, body image and media literacy with a three-year-old, an eight-year-old, and a fifteen-year-old differently.
A non-partisan nonprofit working on internet-enabled child exploitation since 1994 — Internet Safety 101 curriculum, Flip the Switch videos, Project Wilberforce on trafficking, and research libraries on AI, social media and pornography.
Covenant Eyes' parenting ebook, built on the image of a house — teaching children about pornography while building identity, integrity and a way to handle shame. Available in Protestant, Catholic and Spanish editions.
A free broadcast with Josh Glaser and Daniel Weiss on building healthy technology habits at home — practical structure rather than another abstinence talk.
Dannah Gresh and Juli Slattery on erotica as the form sexual temptation more often takes for women — why 'mommy porn' undermines a marriage in the same way, and what God's design actually holds out instead.
Accountability reporting with unlimited devices and partners on one subscription, and dual ISO certification for security and privacy — which matters more than it sounds when software is watching your screen.
The book that defined the category for a generation of Christian men — practical tactics like bouncing the eyes and a three-perimeter defence, sold in the millions and now widely debated.
pureHOPE's argument that personal sexual integrity and the fight against commercial sexual exploitation are the same call — a bridge from private struggle to public justice.
Porn addiction is a silent crisis that profoundly impacts millions of individuals and society. Many people are unaware of the severe mental health, relationship, and societal consequences associated with this…
Juli Slattery and Dannah Gresh in conversation about why erotica took hold after Fifty Shades — the audio companion to their written work on women, romance novels and marriage.
Jonathan Welton's case that purity follows from honour and identity rather than from restriction — training the eyes as a discipline of respect rather than a rule of avoidance.
Mark and Debbie Laaser's center, 30+ years old and 21 staff strong — three-day Men's, Women's and Couples' Journey workshops that the organization equates to 6–12 months of one-to-one counseling, plus a free self-assessment.
667 episodes and still weekly — the podcast arm of Mark Laaser's Faithful & True, covering men's recovery and wives' betrayal trauma side by side rather than one at the expense of the other. 4.6 stars.
Harry Schaumburg's foundational book, written with unusual bluntness for people whose lives or ministries have been damaged by sexual addiction — false intimacy as the counterfeit that keeps real intimacy out.
Cru's marriage and family ministry — Weekend to Remember retreats, the daily FamilyLife Today podcast, small-group studies and blended-family resources. Broad marriage health rather than pornography specifically.
Terry Real on the skills couples actually need — how to raise a hard thing without contempt, and how to hear one without collapsing. Secular, and unusually direct with men.
Rosie Makinney writes for the wife who has said 'help, my husband's addicted to porn' — and answers with a strategy for the marriage rather than only sympathy for the injury.
The best secular option in this directory — research-driven, non-religious and non-legislative, with the free Brain Heart World documentary, the Fortify recovery program, a podcast, and citation-backed Fast Facts.
The practical answer to 'where do I even find someone': counseling association directories, six named ministries with phone numbers, three support-group networks with locator tools, and Focus on the Family's free one-time phone consultation.
Jonathan Daugherty tells his own story of sexual addiction and the road out — a man who went on to found Be Broken Ministries, speaking to men who are still where he was.
Sy Rogers tells his own story — childhood molestation and loss, years of promiscuity, and finding God as a father — in one of the most widely heard testimonies in this field.
Two rape survivors speak plainly about what happened to them and about the healing they found — testimony with practical enough content that listeners have used it in ministry.
A psychiatrist describes her own PTSD. Dr. Elizabeth Stevens was serving in the US Air Force when a brain injury and a series of traumatic events put her on the other side of the desk.
The video version of Dr. Elizabeth Stevens's Focus on the Family interview — a high-achieving Air Force psychiatrist describing her own PTSD and recovery. Duplicates the audio broadcast row.
Brother, if you’re reading this, it means your heart is still alive. Men who are done with God don’t feel this weight. Conviction hurts, but it points toward life. Shame tells you to hide. God calls you to come…
The largest Christian family ministry in the US, and the parent of several resources in this directory — including a free phone counseling consultation and a national Christian Counselors Network for referrals.
A free, confidential 20–40 minute phone consultation with a licensed or pastoral counselor, followed by referrals to Christian counselors near you. The lowest-friction first call in this whole directory.
A Canadian men's brotherhood — regular community meetings and an annual conference, built on the premise that this is 'the community every man needs, but few find.'
Fight the New Drug's free science-based recovery program — education, tracking tools and community, with no faith framing at all. The one to recommend when a Christian resource would close the conversation.
The teen version of Fortify — the same secular, research-based recovery program, pitched at an age group that will usually refuse a faith-based one.
The ministry behind The Bondage Breaker and the Steps to Freedom in Christ — discipleship courses on identity in Christ, a free 'No Power Over Me' course, church-leader training, and Spanish-language material.
Marsha Means's workbook for betrayed partners — exercises rather than reading, taking a woman step by step from the trauma of discovery toward stability and eventually joy.
A Vision in Counseling About a year ago, I was in a counseling session, working through some personal struggles. During our talk, the counselor said he had a vision of me wearing a tattered military-style uniform…
The workbook clinicians use to prepare a formal disclosure — because the alternative, telling the truth in pieces over months, does more damage than the original discovery.
Rachel Zoller on cybersex addiction in girls — the four steps she recommends (confess, tell a trusted adult, cut off access, pursue spiritual healing) and the misconceptions that keep girls silent.
Addiction specialist Nicholas Kardaras argues that screens act on a child's brain much the way stimulants do — the clinical case for why device habits, not just content, are the problem.
The read-aloud book that gives a parent the actual words. Teaches a child what pornography is, why the brain reacts to it, and a five-step CAN DO plan for when they see it — because they will.
Jonathan Daugherty's three-stage map from behaviour management to wholeness — written from the conviction that shame-driven willpower is what keeps people cycling, and grace is what breaks it.
The idea of “greatness bleeds happiness” suggests that the pursuit of excellence often requires effort, sacrifice, and sometimes unseen costs. Yet, embedded within that journey is a deep and enduring joy. To understand…
Operating since 1983 with four free online courses and a deep minibook catalogue — one of the most substantial ministries in this field, and it was entirely absent from this directory.
Jayson Graves's pastoral coaching practice — sexual addiction, pornography, intimacy and life coaching for men, teens, wives, couples and parents, delivered entirely by phone or teleconference.
The foundational Christian text on sexual addiction. Mark Laaser writes as both a clinician and a recovering addict, and traces the behaviour back to family systems, abuse and unmet need rather than to appetite.
A practical guide to the word everyone uses and few can define — what a boundary is, how it differs from an ultimatum or a punishment, and how to set and hold one after betrayal.
A map of the treatment landscape: support groups, books and podcasts, structured programs, CSAT therapists, residential intensives and apps — with an argument for why none of them work without an accountability relationship.
Focus on the Family's whole pornography response on one page, sorted by who you are — struggling yourself, married to it, a betrayed spouse, or a parent — with the free counseling line attached.
A workbook that teaches the addict the one skill his recovery program probably skipped: empathy. Written for the man who has stopped the behaviour and still cannot understand why his wife is not better yet.
Five things a husband needs to hear in the first week: it isn't about you, her shame is worse than yours, it may not look like video porn, you should not be her accountability partner, and you need your own help.
A free ebook on the part nobody plans for — what fills the time once the porn is gone. Context, community, triggers and retraining the brain through deliberate habits and hobbies.
Christ-centered groups for women wounded by sexual betrayal — plus 'Hope in a Box', a 12-week kit with books, videos and a facilitator's guide so a church can start its own group.
A 90-day residential program on an 18-acre Georgia campus, with master's-level therapists, a separate Care for Wives program, and nonprofit subsidies — the longest-form treatment option in this directory.
A devotional ebook through Hosea — the prophet God told to pursue an unfaithful wife, which is why this book has always spoken to both sides of a marriage damaged by sexual sin.
Published by the American Academy of Neurology: four or more adverse childhood experiences more than doubles the odds of chronic headache — with the HPA-axis mechanism explained and a case for trauma-informed care.
The honest answer to the question everyone asks. Patrick Carnes's six stages over two-plus years, Kevin Skinner's seven-level severity scale, and the finding that withdrawal usually runs two to eight weeks.
A parent's guide to actually having the conversation about sex and sexuality — from pureHOPE's library, alongside their pocket guides for parents, church leaders and married couples.
A free, ad-free emotion-tracking app from a nonprofit. Log what you're feeling and when, and patterns appear — which is exactly the data a relapse-prevention plan needs and almost nobody has.
Drew Boa's weekly show, 373 episodes and 4.9 stars — built on the idea of outgrowing porn rather than white-knuckling it, with therapists and neuroscientists alongside recovery stories.
There’s something nobody talks about when it comes to sexual sin and recovery — the emotion underneath it isn’t always lust. For me, a lot of the time, it was insignificance. I didn’t always know that. I thought I just…
The main Catholic resource in this directory — therapist referrals, Integrity Circle coaching, a self-assessment tool, and Bloom, a betrayal trauma program for Catholic women. Sacramental rather than evangelical in its framing.
Michael Todd Wilson's virtual coaching practice — sexual integrity recovery for Christian men, leadership coaching for ministry and executives, and parent consultations. Coaching rather than counseling, by his own description.
Dr. Sheri Keffer writes as both a marriage and family therapist and a woman who lived it — covering what betrayal does to the body as well as the heart, plus boundaries, shame and reclaiming your own sexuality.
The plain-language version of the research on porn and sexual dysfunction — no shame, no theology, and no supplements for sale.
The peer-reviewed paper behind the whole conversation about porn-induced ED — including three military case reports where stopping reversed it.
BraveHearts' entry point for a partner who suspects but doesn't know — a screening assessment plus routes into the Daily Disciplines curriculum, groups and mentor matching.
Dr. Juli Slattery's weekly show on sex, marriage, intimacy and singleness — 4.9 stars from 1,641 ratings, and one of the few places these questions get asked honestly inside a Christian frame.
Jay Stringer's central idea in one conversation: your sexual brokenness is not random, and the details of it point at what actually needs healing. Curiosity where self-hatred was.
The studio behind the Conquer Series — faith-based films, documentaries and church series, plus Soul Refiner, a streaming platform built specifically around inner healing for group ministry.
A 21-assignment recovery workbook for women, built on Dr. Mark Laaser's model by Marnie Ferree — the clinician who effectively created the field of women's sexual addiction treatment.
An all-in-one blocker with the one feature most competitors lack — your accountability partner has to approve before protections come off, and they're alerted in real time when you try.
Most people begin the fight for purity thinking about a finish line. They imagine that if they can go long enough without falling—30 days, 90 days, maybe a year—then they will finally arrive somewhere. A place where…
Sex addiction is often deeply connected to unresolved trauma. Recognizing this link can help explain why some individuals turn to compulsive sexual behaviors as a coping mechanism. Trauma’s Impact on the Brain Trauma,…
Barry and Lori Byrne's 18-lesson marriage course — spiritual, emotional and sexual connection worked together, with inner-healing coaching built in. Available as a course or a condensed intensive.
A 501(c)(3) publishing medically accurate sexual-health research for three decades — including on pornography's effects. Secular and evidence-first, useful when you need a citation rather than a conviction.
Fred Stoeker, co-author of Every Man's Battle, on his own struggle and on framing purity as something a man does for his wife rather than to himself.
Covenant Eyes' Victory content delivered through MessengerX, a chat-based platform for Christian spiritual material — a different delivery route for people who won't download a recovery app.
A ministry defining healthy sexuality positively rather than by prohibition — blog, podcast, books, devotionals and courses, aimed at singles and young adults more than at anyone else here.
A free ebook for singles, taking seriously that people now marry at 27 and 29 on average and 25% of millennials may never marry — so 'wait for marriage' is not, by itself, a strategy.
An open-access academic paper on motivational mechanisms in addiction, arguing that models over-emphasize what makes addictive behaviours unique. Free, but written for researchers, not general readers.
The main UK entry in this directory — Ian Henderson's ministry running recovery courses, church training and schools work, for a country where almost every other resource here is American.
Nate Larkin's I Am Second film — a pastor describing how pornography left him emptier and hungrier each time, and what came after. Short, free, and the reason the Samson Society exists.
The organization that actually changes company policy — its annual Dirty Dozen List names corporations profiting from exploitation, backed by a research institute, a law center and bipartisan policy work.
Free and confidential, any hour — including a text option for when it isn't safe to speak. Coercive control turns up in these marriages more often than anyone in ministry likes to say.
Russell Willingham's counseling ministry — the author of Breaking Free, offering individual counseling, workshops and a free Break Free video series, in person in Fresno or remotely.
A free ebook by Crystal Renaud Day and Lisa Eldred, written against the belief that keeps women silent — around 30% of women struggle with this regularly, and almost none of them know it.
A daily Christian counseling call-in show with a rotating panel of licensed counselors — 4.7 stars, free, and you can phone in with your own question rather than listening to someone else's.
A six-episode series hosted by Greg and Erin Smalley, walking a marriage from the damage through to restored sexuality — short episodes, in the order a couple actually needs them.
The book that established women's sexual addiction as a real clinical category. Marnie Ferree writes from her own recovery and from decades of treating women, with the trauma histories underneath laid bare.
Forty short chapters written by two men who were abused as boys — including the honest premise in the title, that healing is real and rarely finished.
A free 36-page booklet built around the FAITH framework — Fear not, Assess your support, Insist your spouse decide, Talk to a counselor, Heed biblical principles. From the counselor who wrote AfterShock.
Today marks one full year sober from pornography. And let me be real: It’s very difficult, and it’s very easy at the same time. It’s difficult because in recovery, you are asked to say “no” in places where you have…
Like a year of therapy in one week' — week-long trauma intensives on campuses in Tennessee and California, including equine and adventure formats and custom couple or family programs.
Free courses and an Ask A Therapist service from the Cook Center for Human Connection — secular, covering technology's effect on children, parent-child relationships and suicide prevention.
Nate Larkin's podcast out of the Samson Society — 300 episodes, 4.8 stars, blending theology and psychology with the plain honesty that made Samson Society what it is.
Dr. Joel Muddamalle on the road from trauma to arrogance to humility — how curiosity produces humility, and what he calls peace and rest through codependency on God.
A free ebook for wives covering the four things they ask about first: how to talk about it without shaming, how to set boundaries that rebuild trust, how long healing takes for each of them, and which common beliefs about porn are simply wrong.
Matt Dobschuetz has been porn free since his wife found out in 2001, and the show is built on that: repeatable systems, learning from failures, and action rather than motivation. 372 episodes, 4.8 stars from 639 ratings.
Matt Dobschuetz's argument that most relapses follow a pattern you could see coming — and that being surprised by them is itself the problem to fix.
The argument built for rooms where 'it's immoral' won't land: peer-reviewed evidence on aggression, content analysis, youth exposure at age 11, and performer health — framed as public health rather than morality.
Michael Leahy's account of losing a fifteen-year marriage to pornography — written before the topic was discussable, by a man who then took it to university campuses across the country.
Six named group options — Samson Society, SheRecovery, Celebrate Recovery, Pure Desire, Be Broken, 180 Recover — plus three criteria for choosing, and one line worth remembering: a lone sheep is a dead sheep.
The most-cited statistics resource in this field, updated through 2024 with 18 sourced references — covering usage rates, Christian and pastor engagement, teen exposure, industry size, and AI and VR pornography.
The best practical device resource here — reviews of 50+ apps and step-by-step parental control guides for phones, tablets, consoles and streaming devices, from a father of four who does this full time.
A small-group curriculum for men's sexual integrity, plus a free purity quiz and video series — with separate material for wives, women, parents and churches.
A Berean Call presentation arguing that psychology is fundamentally incompatible with biblical Christianity. Listed as one side of a live disagreement, not as guidance — it contradicts most of this directory.
Weekly two-hour groups of four to seven people, running eight to ten months, with daily workbook and journal work in between — the most structured group commitment in this directory, and the most likely to change something.
Thirty years and 100,000 people served — groups, counseling and curriculum built on the claim that recovery needs clinical competence and biblical grounding at the same time. Start with the free 15-minute consultation.
479 episodes at 4.8 stars, weekly — Pure Desire's flagship show, holding clinical insight and biblical framing together rather than choosing one.
The book behind Pure Desire Ministries and the Conquer Series — Dr. Ted Roberts, a former Marine fighter pilot turned pastor, on the brain science and the church's failure to act on it.
pureHOPE's guided path from personal sexual integrity into justice work — the bridge between not consuming exploitation and actively opposing it.
Be Broken's online course platform — separate tracks for men, wives, families, church leaders and counselors, including a course on talking to 8-to-12-year-olds about pornography. Lessons run 30–35 minutes.
A nine-month residential discipleship program in rural Kentucky, plus 16-week at-home and 12-week wives' and women's programs — the longest and most spiritually intensive commitment in this directory.
601 episodes and 20+ years of ministry behind them — Jonathan Daugherty and Stephen Cervantes on moving from sexual brokenness to wholeness, with a counselor's 30 years of experience in the co-host chair.
Arming families to navigate our sexualized culture' — a resource library of pocket guides, studies and devotionals for parents, couples, church leaders and students, including Spanish-language editions.
Jessica Harris's follow-up to Beggar's Daughter, going after the assumption that lust is a male problem — and what that assumption costs the women it renders invisible.
pureHOPE's parenting study for raising children in a sexualized culture — available in Spanish as La búsqueda, which few resources in this directory are.
The largest anti-sexual-violence organisation in the US, with a 24/7 hotline that routes you to a trained provider in your own area.
KingdomWorks' documentary on the first generation raised with unrestricted pornography access — testimony and research, free on YouTube, tied to a campaign for age verification.
Diana Graber's case that digital literacy is taught, not absorbed — with the curriculum she built for middle schoolers, covering privacy, reputation, relationships and critical thinking online.
A fully online Catholic recovery program carrying an Imprimatur — brain science and cognitive-behavioural technique inside Catholic teaching, with coaching, tracking and journaling, anonymously.
pureHOPE on the problem nobody solves for you: staying in recovery inside a culture that keeps supplying the trigger. The link opens their full resource library rather than this title.
Three free, anonymous clinical screeners built on Patrick Carnes's research: the SAST for compulsive sexual behaviour, the Betrayal Bond Index for traumatic bonding, and SARA, which compares your answers to thousands of people already in treatment.
Josh Glaser's ministry — separate groups for men, women and wives, plus coaching and the Becoming Whole podcast. Named repeatedly across this directory and never listed.
Group-based rather than partner-based — you are placed in a small group with daily check-ins, which solves the problem of the man who has nobody to ask.
Shelley Martinkus writes to the wife's longing to be rescued — and then walks her through what actually happens instead, from the wreckage of discovery through to a real recovery.
A substantial free article for teen guys and their parents — confession, accountability and mental transformation, with testimonies rather than lecturing, at about a 19-minute read.
Ben Bennett on anxiety, loneliness, shame and porn as one connected problem rather than four — biblical and psychological, 4.9 stars, and pitched at a generation the older resources here miss.
A Colorado Springs-based network connecting people to member ministries around same-sex attraction and gender identity from a traditional Christian position — a subject area readers should understand clearly before being referred.
A free 14-day video series from a couple whose marriage has been porn-free since 2018 — built around discovery, empathy, hope and insight, with both of them speaking rather than only him.
Ten first-person accounts from women and couples — pornography's damage and the road back — collected by Matt and Cameron Fradd, and one of the few Catholic partner resources anywhere.
Joey and Elizabeth Maxon's contemplative approach — Centering Prayer, Lectio Divina, music, art and wilderness — through marriage intensives, men's weekends and online communities.
A Christian counseling practice with an unusual specialty — porn addiction counseling for teenagers — plus EMDR trauma therapy, marriage counseling and support for pastors. In person or telehealth.
Michael Cusick — author of Surfing for God — runs two-week clinical soul-care intensives with a team of trauma-informed licensed therapists. 'Stubborn hope. Deep change.'
Juli Slattery's argument that the church has taught sexual rules without a sexual theology — and that this is why the rules keep failing the people who most need them.
A Focus on the Family broadcast on recovering a God-centred view of sex and romance, rather than the reactive purity framing many Christians grew up with.
The free twelve-step fellowship for partners — the counterpart to SAA, which this directory already lists. Meetings run about an hour, cost nothing, and need no referral.
Nate Larkin's brotherhood — 'not a church group, not a self-help program' — with in-person and virtual meetings, a daily online community, and a section for wives and partners.
The removal-not-moderation position, argued from child development science by a nurse whose own son dropped out of college over gaming addiction. Targets social media, video games and pornography together.
Long-running gospel-centred courses in 30 lessons — Purity Bootcamp for sexual purity and A United Front for spouses, alongside substance and weight programmes.
The twelve-step fellowship for sexual addiction — free, worldwide, no referral required, and the option that exists in places where no Christian programme does.
The twelve-step fellowship with the strictest sobriety definition — no sexual activity outside marriage, and progressive victory over lust. Many Christians choose it for exactly that reason.
The FBI's own page on how sextortion works and what to do about it — including the line a terrified teenager most needs to hear: you are not the one breaking the law.
A two-day professional conference for church leaders and Christian clinicians — plenaries, breakouts on addiction, infidelity, LGBTQ family ministry and trauma-informed care, with NBCC continuing education credits.
Ed Welch on the difference between guilt and shame — guilt says you did something wrong, shame says you are something wrong — and why only the second one makes a person hide.
Debra Laaser writes as the wife who stayed — refusing the victim identity without minimizing the injury, from a woman who lived it and then spent decades helping other women through it.
A perfect 5-star rating across 38 reviews, and one line that explains why: 'recovery without healing is just sobriety.' Forty episodes for women with porn, sex or love addiction.
The adult equivalent of Take It Down. Over 300,000 images removed and a reported 90%+ removal rate, run by a charity rather than a platform.
Life is full of urges—wanting a snack, buying a car, or the pull to click on porn. They all work the same way: they rise, crest, and eventually fade away. That’s good news. If we learn to wait them out, we gain…
Michael Cusick's argument that lust is a misdirected hunger for God rather than an appetite to be suppressed — and that the way out runs through desire, not around it.
Levi Lusko writing to young adults in their own register — sex and romance as high-stakes rather than merely forbidden, with the argument that God is for good sex, not against it.
A free service that gets nude or explicit images of a minor taken down across major platforms. The photo never leaves the device — only a digital fingerprint of it is shared.
pureHOPE's technology guide, built on the premise in its title: a family's connection to each other matters more than its connectivity — practical settings in service of relationship, not instead of it.
An episode of Carl and Laura Lentz's Lights On aimed at men stuck in the pornography-and-shame cycle, using a 'Swiss cheese' image of layered defences where no single barrier is enough on its own.
Dan Allender's centre — Narrative Focused Trauma Care, plus a free audio series on healing from sexual abuse. This directory had one of his episodes and not the organisation behind it.
The foundational modern text on trauma — that it is stored in the body, not only remembered by the mind, and that talk alone often cannot reach it. Secular, and the science underneath most of the trauma-informed work in this directory.
Neil Anderson's long-selling book on breaking strongholds — harmful habits, negative thinking and irrational feelings — by taking hold of identity in Christ rather than fighting the behaviour head on.
A private, ad-free community for women in betrayal trauma recovery — no Facebook, no algorithm, no chance of a neighbour seeing it — included with the Daily Disciplines subscription along with facilitator-led groups.
60+ hours of recorded interviews with 44 faith-based betrayal trauma experts — Sheri Keffer, Anne Blythe, Laurie Hall, Marnie Ferree among them — now on demand with lifetime access.
The ten-episode film series most churches use when they start a men's group — Dr. Ted Roberts on brain chemistry and the addiction cycle, built for a room of men watching together, not a man watching alone.
A weekly 16–25 minute show from Covenant Eyes — clinicians, ministry leaders and recovery stories on porn addiction, betrayal trauma, the neuroscience of unwanted behaviour, and keeping kids safe online. 295 episodes since 2021.
A Christian educational article on how pornography affects the mind and how the reinforcing cycle sustains itself — from an apologetics site rather than a vendor, so no product at the end.
The first episode of Therapy and Theology — Lysa TerKeurst with a theologian and a licensed counselor on forgiving someone who never apologized, and the seven truths about what forgiveness actually is.
Leslie Vernick's line is the one many women need permission to hear: abuse is not a marriage problem. Written for the woman who cannot tell whether she is being unreasonable.
Dr. Curt Thompson on the Enneagram as nine predictable ways we narrate our own shame — a map for people whose self-condemnation always says the same thing in the same voice.
Pastor and author Noah Filipiak connecting the gospel to 'the grit of life' — addiction and mental health alongside racial justice, codependency and LGBTQ+ questions. 283 episodes, 4.8 stars.
A free 30-Day Challenge that opens into a seven-month course — daily check-ins, accountability, and teaching on the roots of addiction, built on a Christ-centered growth model from Ephesians 4.
Joe Dallas's day-by-day 30-day plan for men — a start date, a finish date and a task for each day, for the man who needs a structure rather than another set of principles.
A book about the church's failure rather than the individual's — why millions struggle in secret inside congregations, and what leaders would have to change for that to stop.
Juli Slattery on escalation, and on why a husband using pornography may struggle to be aroused by his own wife — 'sex on his terms' — written without assigning blame to either of them.
Sharon Hersh's argument that self-help is itself the last addiction — the belief that we can manage our way out, which quietly replaces dependence on God with dependence on our own competence.
Five-day clinical intensives from one of the best-known trauma treatment names in the US — including Men's Sexual Recovery, Healing Intimate Treason for partners, and The Betrayal Bond.
Brant Hansen's alternative to warrior-metaphor men's ministry — masculinity as showing up, protecting and building rather than as conquest, delivered with enough humour that men actually finish it.
Covenant Eyes' most-downloaded ebook — which chemicals fire during porn use, why that makes it addictive, what it does to sexual satisfaction, and a 90-day framework for breaking the circuit.
A deliberately non-religious response to the pro-pornography arguments — built from research, former performers' testimony and philosophy, so the case stands without appealing to Scripture.
Barna's landmark study of pornography use inside the American church — teens, adults, pastors and youth pastors surveyed, with numbers that are hard to argue with because of who collected them.
The standard secular clinical guide — Wendy Maltz, a certified sex therapist, on the full range from recreational use to compulsion, with practical recovery steps and material for partners.
One of pureHOPE's two flagship studies, alongside Quest — designed for a couple or small group rather than solo reading.
When it comes to addiction recovery, especially from pornography, one of the greatest challenges is the accessibility of temptation. In today’s digital age, harmful content is often just a click away, and overcoming…
Gene McConnell's five stages — early exposure, addiction, escalation, desensitization, acting out — written partly as his own testimony, which is why it reads as description rather than warning.
Seven scripted Bible studies a parent teaches their own child — turning 'the talk' from one dreaded conversation into a short series with the words already written for you.
Andy Crouch's ten commitments for a household, built on Barna research — starting from what a family is for rather than from what to block, with practices like one hour, one day, one week off a year.
Lisa Taylor writes fiction for young people as a counterweight to an over-sexualized culture — a story-shaped way into a conversation that lectures rarely open.
Three unlikely stories — a priest, a ballerina and a bodybuilder — on beauty as the thing that heals what pornography distorted. Free, and the most unusual resource in this catalogue.
Daniel Weiss and Josh Glaser writing for the first generation of parents raising children in a porn-saturated world — with no inherited playbook, because their own parents never faced this.
Survivor-led, founded by a woman who worked in the industry herself. 8,000+ women reached across 139 cities — and the only door in this directory for someone still inside it.
Last night I had two dreams that stayed with me. At first they felt random, but as I sat with them, I started to see a pattern that speaks directly to recovery from sexual addiction and learning how to live with clear…
Harry Schaumburg's argument that sexual sin grows from misconceptions about God and intimacy rather than from appetite — and that redemption, not management, is what the situation requires.
Michael Dye's six-stage descent — Forgetting priorities, Anxiety, Speeding up, Ticked off, Exhausted, Relapse — with behaviour checklists for each stage so you can name where you already are.
A long-form argument that recovery has to work on body, soul and spirit at once — root causes rather than behaviour management — from New Life Spirit Recovery's founder.
A psychiatrist's account of her own PTSD and recovery — Dr. Elizabeth Stevens served in the US Air Force when a brain injury and successive traumas put her on the patient's side of the desk.
Built on research with over 3,800 people, Jay Stringer's book argues that unwanted sexual behaviour is not random — its specific shape points directly at the unaddressed story underneath it.
The app itself, listed separately from the Covenant Eyes organization — screen accountability reported to a trusted ally, plus the Strive and Arise programs. 1.7 million users, 4.5 stars.
Covenant Eyes' video channel on recovery and on the damage pornography leaves behind, working from the line they lead with: it's about direction, not perfection.
Have you ever tried not to think of a pink elephant? The very command makes that image spring to mind. In the same way, our brains often “hear” whispers – not just as words but as vivid pictures. In recovery, you may…
A Walk In Purity reflection on recovery as relearning daily patterns of honesty, connection, and healthy living rather than simply arriving at a final destination.
Men use a lot of words for the same thing: attractive, beautiful, pretty, cute, hot. Each word carries a different feel. “Pretty” can mean gentle. “Hot” can mean raw desire. And “attractive” often points to a quality…
Covenant Eyes' porn-addiction hub — a filterable library covering symptoms, effects, withdrawal and recovery, with content reviewed by Christian counselors and published through 2026.
Sam Jolman, author of The Sex Talk You Never Got, joins Juli Slattery on what men were never taught about their own sexuality — and what filled the gap instead.
Written to the woman who has worked out that something happened to him — what it explains about his behaviour, and what she can and cannot do about it.
Bill Perkins on temptation as the ordinary condition of good men rather than evidence of a bad one — practical strategy without the assumption that struggling means you are failing.
The younger-reader edition of Bill Perkins's book — the same starting point, that temptation is normal rather than disqualifying, written in a register a teenager will actually finish.
Three mechanisms, clearly laid out: dopamine and novelty, neuroplasticity building automatic pathways, and emotional coping — with the finding that 96% of people with compulsive sexual behaviour name a mood state as the trigger.
Dannah Gresh on God's design for sexuality and why physical intimacy is reserved for marriage — with practical advice for parents on how to have the conversation. Free.
Jason Martinkus writes from his own marriage: what a man has to do after the truth comes out, when 'I'm sorry' has stopped meaning anything and trust has to be rebuilt by evidence.
Sixty-plus online support groups meeting daily, plus X3watch accountability software and the X3Pure Rewired program — built on the premise that the behaviour is a symptom, not the problem.
Covenant Eyes' free short guide to the top five ways pornography rewires the brain — not to be confused with Gary Wilson's separate secular book of the same name.
The book that changed the field: Dr. Barbara Steffens's research established that partners of sex addicts present with trauma, not codependency — which reversed decades of treating the injured party as part of the problem.
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