It feels like I’ve always known, at some level, that the gospel of Jesus Christ and all of its requirements are true. Even during times when my life was not in the Church and far away from behavior a believer should practice, I felt deep in my heart that I was doing what was contrary to the will of God.

That makes much of what I might say about disbelief more a matter of speculation than of experience. Yet, I still know that I have a great capacity for not believing. Even more than that, I think sometimes what an inconvenience testimony is. (more…)

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I’m happy to announce the implementation of our support forums in a format more friendly to mobile devices such as smart phones. Some of the features of our support forums are now implemented on a smaller window so that people with mobile devices can post, read, and reply.

You can get to the mobile version of the support forums at http://m.ldsr.org/. After you log in with your usual username and password, you’ll be taken to a list of all messages you haven’t read yet. You can read and reply

At the bottom of the list of unread messages, you can choose to look at all recent threads in all boards. You can restore any thread in that list to fully “unread” status in case you want to go back and review the messages in it.

If you haven’t joined our support forums yet, please consider it. It is a different username and log in than what you use to participate in the blog. Go to http://www.ldsr.org/newforums/forums.phtml to register.

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I think that the biggest temptation with sexual, and any other, addiction is to deal with it completely alone, in isolation. There are so many things working against those of us who struggle with sexual addiction. It takes more than the internal struggle that we can do inside ourselves. (more…)

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Coming to LDSR is something usually done in a mixture of sadness and hope. The sadness usually comes from yet another experience where we thought we had our sexual behavior under control, but didn’t. The hope is that an LDS oriented environment will be the trick that will make this time different, that this time will be the time that will work. Perhaps there is even some magical thinking involved – just coming to this website will miraculously heal us right away, and we can be all better from now on until forever. We want to find useful ideas and support from people who have been where we are and who know the secrets to recovery, sobriety, and maybe even cure.

Some of those things are possible, and some of them aren’t. The purpose of this article is to help you get the most value from the resources on LDSR you can. (more…)

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On this day, when we in America celebrate mothers, I want to wish all mothers who visit this site a very happy Mother’s Day. It may seem like a strange place for such a greeting, considering the focus of this site. However, it seems to me that mothers here, whether dealing with addiction or with a family member with an addiction, could use a bit of warm wishes. (more…)

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I’m not in a great place in my head right now. I’m a little bit of a mess — not nearly as much of a mess as I’ve been the last month or so, but still a bit of a mess. I’m writing this now because some of the folks who come here are a bit of a mess too — sometimes a very big mess, so there might be something in this that’s easier to relate to than some of the other stuff I’ve written around here.

Quitting porn and masturbation is difficult in the same way that quitting any addictive behavior is difficult — not at all. Most addicts quit hundreds or thousands of times. Quitting is easy — staying quit is the hard part. (more…)

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Sex Addiction Recovery Tips from Mark Chamberlain, Ph.D.

Rebuilding Trust

Rebuilding trust, particularly with one’s spouse, can be one of the greatest challenges in the process of recovering from a sexual addiction. There are many reasons for this. A spouse who has been deceived and wronged is understandably hesitant to open her or his heart again. Furthermore, the individual who has struggled with compulsive sexual behavior is tempted to approach their recovery in the same way they approached their addictive lifestyle: (more…)

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Here are a few interesting posts from other Mormon blogs relevant to this site:

• Healing From Pornography Addiction
• Are Mormons Crazy for Porn?
• Brain Plasticity and Pornography
• Modesty and Body Image

Feel free to respond to any topics at these other sites or even here. Let me know if you run across anything relevant to Latter-day Saints and sexual addiction.

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I remember seeing a documentary on one of those cable channels about what a tornado can do with just a few sticks. The force of the wind is so strong that it can force a small piece of wood through a wall. A larger projectile does all the more damage, impaled in solid structures with irresistible force. (more…)

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I have installed a new plugin for the LDSR site that allows me to create a poll and display the results. I want to find out something about the site readers. You can either vote on the poll in the sidebar to the left or here:

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