Breaking Free: Understanding Sexual Addiction and the Healing Power of Jesus

What it is

Russell Willingham writes from years of counseling Christian men and women, and his argument is that sexual addiction is held in place by a set of false beliefs about God, self and intimacy that behaviour management never touches. The book works through how those beliefs form, why willpower and accountability alone keep failing against them, and what healing actually requires — including honest treatment of relapse, of shame, and of the church's discomfort with the subject. Published by InterVarsity Press, it reads as a serious book rather than a quick guide, and it is widely used by pastors and biblical counselors as a framework for working with people. Choose it when someone has already tried the practical guides and wants to understand why nothing has held.

What it may help with

• I'm struggling with porn or sexual sin
• I need professional counseling
• I lead a church or ministry

How to access it

Paperback and ebook (InterVarsity Press) Purchase from a bookseller

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