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May 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

“We Are All Enlisted”
Megan C. with SALifeline.org

Relief Society Pornography Lesson

I hope that you will all keep a prayer in your heart for me and also for you as we delve into a subject that is sensitive. I will be bold; do not misunderstand my boldness for insensitivity. It is an effort to, as Harold B. Lee has said, “…comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” I hope this lesson has a little bit of both.

Mary Ellen Smoot has said, “We go to Relief society each week to not only be fed, nurtured, and loved, but also to report for duty.” Today I am here to call you sisters to duty in the Lord’s army. Julie B. Beck at the 2009 BYU Women’s Conference declares, “FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT” for our families against the evils of pornography and sexual addiction. Yes, we are going to talk about that. Anyone uncomfortable yet?

We just sang the song “We are all Enlisted”. It is a battle cry to those who will join in battle in the Lord’s army. “We are all enlisted ‘til the conflict is over. Fight for our Savior, come, come away.” Joseph Smith taught: “When we joined this church we enlisted to serve God. When we did that we left neutral ground and we can never go back on to it.”

What does it mean to be “enlisted”? Some definitions are: to participate actively in a cause or to join, enter into, volunteer or sign up.

Where and why did we “enlist” in this conflict with Satan? Elder James J. Hamula reminds us, “It is written by John the Revelator “and there was a war in heaven: Michael and his angels (us!) fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, “and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. “and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which decieveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.” [Read more...]

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Safeguarding Teens and Young Adults from Pornography

January 26, 2011 By 2 Comments

A message for parents and leaders

Jason S. Carroll

 Jason S. Carroll, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University and is a nationally-recognized researcher and educator. He specializes in the areas of marriage readiness among young adults, couple formation patterns and the transition to marriage, the effectiveness of marriage education and modern threats to marriage (such as materialism, pornography, delayed age at marriage and premarital sexuality). [Read more...]
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Event – Preparing for Healthy Intimacy

December 3, 2010 By

Preparing for Healthy Intimacy
in a Sexually Toxic Culture
A message for Singles

Speakers
Jill Manning & Dan Gray

Jill C. Manning, Ph.D., is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist who specializes in research and clinical work related to pornography and its impact
on marriages and families. She is a former Social Science Fellow at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., and as a result of her research was invited to testify before a Senate sub-committee about the harms of pornography on families. [Read more...]

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Impact of Pornography – Documentary

November 12, 2010 By 3 Comments

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Rhyll Croshaw – Support for Women

November 1, 2010 By 5 Comments

Why did you stay? The most often asked question of me.

At the time of the first disclosure, I was so naïve and without any information. I had a strong commitment to the marriage and our family and I believed that people can change-repent and put behaviors behind them. But I also felt hat I must be in some way responsible. If only I was more beautiful, more sexual, a better person and even smarter, then surely he wouldn’t have the need to go to pornography and other acting out behaviors.

The second time he came forward and disclosed, I was extremely upset and spent hours in bitter tears and anguish. But then I picked myself up, dusted myself off and went to work. I decided that this was more than a few slips of judgement. The idea of an addiction emerged. So I found a specialist in the field of sexual addiction, I read books- I encouraged him to go to a support group- I did the work. He was willing to go along with it but didn’t become fully engaged. [Read more...]

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Rhyll Croshaw on KSL Studio 5 speaking about Healing

October 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Healing from a spouse’s pornography problem

Aired on Studio 5 on Oct. 25, 2010

In the documentary “Out in the Light” Steve and Rhyll Crowshaw share their story of how Steve’s pornography addiction impacted their marriage for more than 30 years. Through it all, Rhyll has found personal peace and healing and shares what she has learned through her experience.

Rhyll’s tips for finding hope and healing:

  1. Seek information. Rhyll says, “Education about the addiction helped soften the feeling that I had been personally attacked and was one of the steps to refining my hope.”
  2. Take care of yourself. Rhyll says, “I needed healing … not because I was weak but because I had been hurt.” Rhyll recommends taking time to slow down your emotions.
  3. Find support and safety through: A 12-step group and sponsor; qualified counseling; a strong spiritual connection; boundaries – refusing to enable addict behaviors such as lying, victim attitude, blaming, and resentment.
  4. Recognizing you have a choice in how you feel and how you approach the challenge. Rhyll says, “If I live in the past, I live with resentment. If I live in the future, I live with fear which paralyzes me. I started to learn to live in the present and be grateful for the present moment.”

    5. For more information visit Rhyll and Steve Crowshaw’s foundation at www.salifeline.org, and to view the “Out in the Light” documentary, visit www.outinthelight.com.

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Steven and Rhyll Croshaw speak about Pornography Addiction

September 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Steven and Rhyll Croshaw founders of SA Lifeline Foundation take a minute to discuss their experiences with pornography, and sexual addiction. Both Steven and Rhyll are committed to helping all that struggle with this issue. They believe that all who desire and seek recovery will be able to find it.

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Can pornography use become an actual brain addiction?

September 21, 2010 By 6 Comments

Donald L. Hilton, Jr. MD, FACS
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio

The human brain is programmed to incentivize behaviors that contribute to survival.  The mesolimbic dopaminergic system rewards eating and sexuality with powerful pleasure incentives.  Cocaine, opioids, alcohol, and other drugs subvert, or hijack, these pleasure systems, and cause the brain to think a drug high is necessary to survive.  Evidence is now strong that natural rewards such as food and sex affect the reward systems in the same way drugs affect them, thus the current interest in ‘natural addiction.’  Addiction, whether to cocaine, food, or sex occurs when these activities cease to contribute to a state of homeostasis, and instead cause adverse consequences.  For instance, when eating causes morbid obesity few will argue that the organism is in healthy balance.  Similarly, pornography causes harm when it impairs or destroys a person’s ability to develop emotional intimacy. [Read more...]

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Introduction to ‘Out in the Light’

September 21, 2010 By 1 Comment


Video Courtesy of KSL.com

“Out in the Light” is a collaborative effort between DMC companies, (KSL-TV, KSL Newsradio, the Deseret News, BYU-TV, and Deseret Book) to educate, direct and unite women around the world who are victimized by a spouse’s pornography addiction.

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Strengthening Recovery through Strengthening Marriage

September 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Strengthening Recovery Through Strenghening Marriage

By Dr. Kevin B. Skinner & Geoff Steurer, M.S., LMFT

Recently Dr. Kevin B. Skinner & Geoff Steurer, M.S., LMFT completed a faboulous work on Pornography Addiction.  The work includes a six part CD that focuses on teaching you how to strengthen your recovery while strengthening your marriage.

Geoff is a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice in St. George, UT and the founder and director of LifeSTAR of St. George, UT, a three-phase recovery program for couples and individuals affected by pornography and sexually compulsive behaviors.

Geoff has specialized training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, an empirically based marital therapy founded by Dr. Susan Johnson.

He is a member of the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and a member of the LifeSTAR network.

Dr. Kevin Skinner is a licensed marriage and family therapist, with a master’s degree from University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a doctorate degree from Brigham Young University. He has been in practice since 1995 and has helped many people overcome their struggles and better their relationships. He specializes in marriage and relationships, as well as helping people to overcome pornography and sex addictions or understand how to help loved ones with addictions.

These cd’s focus on the specific recovery needs unique to addicts, injured partners, and the couple.  Additionally, couples will not only learn how to begin healing from the effects of pornography addiction, but will also gain valuable insights on how they can start to build long-term trust and intimacy.

The presentation is broken up into the following six parts.

Part One:  Why Marriage and Porn Don’t Mix
Part Two:  Performing Marital CPR after Discovery
Part Three:  Yours, Mine, and Ours
Part Four:  Addiction and Intimacy
Part Five:  The Key Steps to Rebuilding Trust
Part Six:  The Vision of Long-Term Recovery

We strongly recomend this work and believe that it can help.  We encourage everyone to purchase a copy.

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