Temptations

How not to look

I don't know how to not look.  I am powerless over the look.  My life is unmanageable.  I cannot manage looking and I can not manage not looking.  What I need is a new attitude about looking and taking and lusting...

My reaction to triggers

Just the other day, I went to a restaurant that I frequent, expecting it to be a safe place.  So point 1, I was avoiding the near occasion of sin, as my mother used to say.  I didn't deliberatedly go to...

The Birds

I live by the sea, where there are many gulls.  Seagulls normally mind their own business but once, when I was walking along eating a cake, a seagull noticed me and swooped.  It hovering just above my head, close...

Time for me to fly

This morning, as I was driving to work, still feeling tired after an emotional weekend, I started being assaulted by images.  Images I didn't want and was working hard to surrender, but was struggling and unable...

One trigger after another

Tonight I'm in a city for a certain conference that is well known for lust. This is a tough trip for me so far. I feel most challenged in my hotel room. It's hard - just one trigger after another. And it's all me...

Lust won't go easy on me

I'm loving all the shares on practical tips for surrendering lust temptations. I'm told sexaholism is three-fold: physical, emotional, and spiritual. Ideally my surrender would involve all three. A large part of...

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