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Sexual Wellness
Promote health and healing in personal sexuality
This section promotes overall wellness and healing in a number of areas related to sexuality. Potential topics to be engaged include sexual abuse, sexual harassment, divorce care, and freedom from pornography, among others. Sexual brokenness manifests in individuals and impacts relationships in a myriad of ways. These resources are not meant to place blame or judge motivation or spiritual maturity, nor are they meant to offer legal guidance. Rather, they are offered to promote healing across a spectrum-for aggressors/offenders, survivors, family and loved ones, men and women-and to do so both proactively and restoratively. Our hope is that these resources will provide ways to endure, overcome, heal, and embrace once again God’s all-encompassing, radical love.
I. General Reading for Wellness in Sexuality
- Redeemed Sexuality: 12 Sessions for Healing and Transformation in Community, by Andrew Boa
- Who God Says You Are: A Christian Understanding of Identity, by Klyne Snodgrass
- Redeeming Sex: Naked Conversations about Sexuality and Spirituality, by Debra Hirsch
- Talking to Your Kids about Sex: How to Have a Lifetime of Age-Appropriate Conversations with Your Children about Healthy Sexuality, by Mark Laaser
- The End of Sexual Identity: Why Sex Is Too Important to Define Who We Are, by Jennell Paris
- Naming Our Abuse: God’s Pathways to Healing for Male Sexual Abuse Survivors by Andrew Schmutzer, David Carlson, & Daniel Gorski.
II. Sexual Harassment Awareness and Prevention
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
ECC Statement
Case Law and the Church
- Church Law & Tax | Keeping your Church safe, legal, and financially sound (by Christianity Today)
Boundaries Training
- Lewis Online Learning (by Wesley Theological Seminary)
Church Resource
III. Sexual Issues in Marriage
Psychology Today
American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists
- AASECT (aasect.org)
IV. Sexuality and Singleness
- ECC Resource: A Theology of Singleness (by Rebekah Eklund)
V. Recovery Resources for Sexual Addictions
BOOKS:
General for the Addict
- Don’t Call It Love: Recovery From Sexual Addiction, by Patrick Carnes
- Facing the Shadow: Starting Sexual and Relationship Recovery, by Patrick Carnes (workbook)
- Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction, by Patrick Carnes
- Sexual Anorexia: Overcoming Sexual Self-Hatred, by Patrick Carnes
- Leaving the Enchanted Forest: The Path from Relationship Addiction to Intimacy, by Stephanie Covington
- Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction, by Mark Laaser
- Breaking Free: Understanding Sexual Addiction and the Healing Power of Jesus, by Russell Willingham
- False Intimacy: Understanding the Struggle of Sexual Addiction, by Harry Schaumburg
- Lust, Anger, Love: Understanding Sexual Addiction and the Road to Healthy Intimacy, by Maureen Canning
- Porn Nation, by Michael Leahy
- Facing Love Addiction, by Pia Melody
- Facing Codependence, by Pia Melody
- The Intimacy Factor, by Pia Melody
- Healing the Shame that Binds You, by John Bradshaw
Women Sex Addicts
- No Stones: Women Redeemed from Sexual Shame, by Marnie Ferree
- Women, Sex, and Addiction, by Charlotte Davis Kasl
12 Step Literature
- SLAA Basic Text
- AA Big Book
- Twelve Steps for Christians
- Life Recovery Bible
- Answers in the Heart (Daily Meditations for Men and Women Recovering from Sex Addiction)
- Celebrate Recovery
For Spouses and Loved Ones
- Shattered Vows: Hope and Healing for Women Who Have Been Sexually Betrayed, by Debra Laaser
- S.A.R.A.H.: Spouses of Addicts Rebuilding and Healing, by Richard Blankenship
- Co-SLAA and Co-SA Literature (cosa-recovery.org)
INTERNET RESOURCES:
- Married to a Sex Addict – www.marriedtoasexaddict.com (Sisterhood of Support)
- Christian Recovery International – www.christianrecovery.com
- New Life – www.newlife.com
- Focus on the Family – www.focusonthefamily.com
- Live A Porn Free Life With The Power Of Community – by xxxchurch.com
Advice on filters and screens
- www.getnetwise.org,
- Focus on the Family – Tech Support for Parents (Free Guide available here)
- Net Nanny – www.netnanny.com
Accountability Software
- X3watch – x3watch.com (free from xxxchurch)
- Covenant Eyes at www.covenanteyes.org
PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING:
Bethesda Workshops (c/o Woodmont Hills Counseling Center)
- (866) 464-4325 or (615) 269-622
- www.bethesdaworkshops.org
Faithful and True Ministry
- (952) 746-3880
- faithfulandtrue.com
Pine Grove Treatment
- 1-800-574-HOPE
- www.pinegrovetreatment.com
Stone Gate Resources
Marble Retreat
- (970) 963-2499
- marbleretreat.org
Link Care Center
- (559) 439-5920
- linkcare.org
SELF-HELP GROUPS:
12 STEP GROUPS
Sexaholics Anonymous (SA)
Sex Addicts Anonymous (SAA)
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA)
FOR CO-ADDICTS/SPOUSES
Codependents of Sex Addicts (COSA)
- (612) 537-6904
- www.cosa-recovery.org
VI. Resources On Domestic Abuse
ECC RESOURCES AND TRAINING:
- Advocacy for Victims of Abuse (AVA)
- AVA Online Tutorial – ava-online.org
BOOKS:
- Door of Hope: Recognizing and Resolving the Pains of Your Past, by Jan Frank
- The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
- The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse, by Dan Allender
- Rebuilding Your Broken World, by Gordon MacDonald
AGENCIES:
FaithTrust Institute
Training seminars, keynote presentations, and resource catalog with online store to purchase curricula, videos, brochures, and publications.
- 1-877-860-2255
- faithtrustinstitute.org
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
National directory of DV programs, information on referral services
National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs
National Domestic Violence Hotline
Provides counseling and information about shelters and services in all states.
- 24-hour hotline 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
- www.thehotline.org
Abigail’s
Online support group for women with an abusive partner
Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community
Asian and Pacific Islander Institute on Gender-Based Violence
Mending the Sacred Hoop
Dedicated to strengthening the voice and vision of Native peoples through grassroots organizing, restoring the leadership of Native women in addressing and ending domestic and sexual violence nationally.
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