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Real men drink. Just look at all the macho reasons for drinking: great nights, less stress, high jinx, amazing sex. It’s what proper blokes do. Except, that’s rubbish. Alcohol doesn’t make you tough, it makes you weak. It doesn’t remove your stress, it causes it. Behaving like a lad is preventing you from becoming a man. You can take control of your drinking.

I grew up in the Southern Baptist church of the '90s during the height of the True Love Waits movement, accompanied by Joshua Harris’ best seller, I Kissed Dating Goodbye. If you don’t know what I am referring to, consider yourself blessed. Many of the ideas perpetuated by this culture were infused with fear and shame, offering no practical help or guidance in equipping young people to become healthy sexual human beings.

You’ll never quit porn if you believe it’s the problem. Porn is the solution. This may sound crazy. You may be sure porn is your problem. I thought the same thing and spent years trying to fix it. It didn’t work. So what’s the problem? Now that’s a question worth asking. If you can’t stop using porn, there is a reason. I want to help you learn why.

It was love at first taste for fifteen-year-old Tadhg Hickey when he drank a can of Scrumpy Jack on the night of his exam results. Straight away it provided a cure for that constant feeling of 'something wrong, something not quite right', a way of numbing anxiety and childhood trauma. He realised he was extraordinarily good at drinking and energetically threw himself into a life of pubs, parties and staying pissed, while also managing to become a comedian. But alcohol had the last laugh.

The first edition of Alcoholics Anonymous was published in April 1939. It rapidly became known as the “Big Book” and launched the AA Program that has helped millions of people around the world get and stay sober. As the basic text of AA, its chapters show other alcoholics precisely how 100 men and women recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body. It lays out a proven program of action to stop drinking, including the original Twelve Steps.

Sipping Fear shows you how the catecholamines responsible for desire and fear always act together. Desire is by its very nature a form of fear (like FOMO: fear of missing out). This is what narrows focus and provides temporary stress relief.

At the heart of Dave Marley's book is a simple premise: Finding your way doesn't mean you always know where you're going. It's learning how to find your way back to what's important. Finding Your Way is a fascinating examination and eye-opening perspective on finding your path when you're lost.

We are a diminishing group of men and women whose amazing experience actually resembles the incredible experience described in the original “Big Book.” To show other alcoholics, through the heavy use of sarcasm, precisely how far away from that message we have strayed is the main purpose of this book. For them, we hope these chapters will effectively point out the absolute ridiculousness of much of what is commonly spoken, taught, and accepted in the world of recovery today, thus inspiring a reevaluation of the actual “Big Book”.

Why do some men struggle to feel love, or for that matter, feel any emotions? It is because they are emotionally undeveloped. They lack the skills and resources needed to emotionally connect on a deeper level. And this leaves them with an unfulfilled void and their loved ones feeling empty, alone and frustrated.

David Whitehead's most ambitious series: The Sexual Addicts Recovery Project. Give yourself an actionable plan. Includes Pornography and Masturbation Addiction Mastery: A 7 Step Comprehensive Recovery Guide to Re-Focusing Your Sexual Energy, Retaining Your Seed and Rebuilding Your Life and Erectile Dysfunction Guidebook: The Complete Sexual Health Solution to Identifying, Working on and Curing ED and Impotence: Natural Remedies, Psychology, Sex Addiction, Exercise, Diet and More.

In a world where there are 68 million searches for pornography every day and where over 70 percent of Christian men report viewing porn in the last year, it's no surprise that more and more men struggle with an addiction to this false fantasy. Common wisdom says if they just had more willpower or more faith, their fight would be over. Is the answer really that simple? According to the counselor and ministry leader Michael John Cusick, the answer is no—but the big truth may be much more freeing.

We live in a culture that’s awash in pornography and sexual sin. For the first time in history, a growing percentage of women have been swept up by the same savage undertow as men, and they are drowning together in this heaving, destructive sea. Perhaps you’ve been gripped by the same relentless riptide, and it’s yanking you into a dark, addictive abyss, causing you to wonder if there’s a way out. Is sexual freedom even possible these days?

Miles Cook never dreamed he’d be an alcoholic. Waking one day he realizing how trapped he had become. He embarked on a journey of self-acceptance and vulnerability to claw his way out before it was too late. With a powerful message and wry self-acceptance, Sobering Thoughts lays bare Miles’ toxic 30-year relationship with alcohol. This deeply moving audiobook will speak to your heart as you watch Miles’ struggle through a roller-coaster of self-taught recovery as he tries to reclaim his life.

The comprehensive guide to pornography addiction and masturbation urges. Pornography and Masturbation Addiction Mastery is a deep dive into the psyche of a recovering porn addict. The audiobook covers all aspects of porn and masturbation and offers sure-fire strategies designed to help you engage and overcome your addiction. You will find deep introspective comments designed to resonate with your own struggles with pornography.

Lust, Men, and Meth: A Gay Man's Guide to Sex and Recovery provides insight for gay men struggling with the issues of sex and recovery and for the professionals who work with them. The listener is equipped not only with essential information on the problems of drugs and sexuality, but also with solutions in the form of tools and resources that will support him along his path.

The Alchemy of the Enneagram in Transforming Addiction describes the distinct differences between the nine Enneagram types and their particular addiction struggles, protective mechanisms, relapse patterns, and key strategies for each type that will allow them to become conscious and drug-free men.

Based on the fable of the wolf, The Blood Tipped Blade is an open and raw look at lust addictions, the impact they have on society, and what we can do to overcome them. Drawing on principles of faith and friendship, this audiobook contains practical steps anyone can take in his or her journey toward victory.

From Chains to Saved is a series of short stories that takes the reader on a journey through the spiritual path from the Columbine High School shooting, to being found dead on camera by the police, to an alley way with angels and demons, to spiritual encounters that saved his life, to photos with politicians where Jesus is in the background! This book is a short read that anyone would find entertainment and inspiration in.

The Holy Spirit wrote the vision of Recovery Church on the hearts of strangers from across the country and then formed this rag-tag group into a family. The story of Recovery Church is His Story. The story of how a Holy God went through extravagant measures to reach junkies, drunks, crackheads, outcasts, sinners, wayward children, the lepers of today, us.

The general public is starting to recognize what parents, teachers, and therapists have known for years: We are losing our young men. Now more than ever, emerging men between 16 and 35 find themselves stuck in limbo between adolescence and adulthood. Addictions, anxieties, egos, and overwhelming expectations leave them trapped in childhood, frustrated with their lives, and feeling forced to cope with drugs, porn, and video games.