Ep #95 “How to Overcome and Redeem Your Sexual Addiction” with Greg Oliver
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About Greg
Greg Oliver is the Founder and Executive Director of Awaken, a Gospel-based ministry focused on recovery from pornography/sexual addiction and sexual betrayal trauma. Greg has personally been in recovery since 2009, and is a certified Sexual Recovery Pastoral Counselor. Through Awaken, Greg and his wife Stacey provide community, coaching, and recovery resources for men, women, couples, and ministry leaders. Awaken currently offers recovery meetings in Birmingham, Montgomery, Prattville, and Cullman AL and in Nashville TN. Greg also worked as a Worship Pastor for many years and serves on the worship team at his church. Greg & Stacey live in Birmingham AL, and have three grown children and one grandson.
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Quotes
“if you haven't taken the chance yet of letting people see your heart and risking that rejection, then you don't really know how to make meaningful connections. And sex is not supposed to make you close to somebody that is supposed to come out of the closeness that's already there.”
“And I just had a backwards view of what it (sex) was supposed to accomplish. So I would say to my single self, ‘Married sex doesn't fix anything’. But single experiences with sex, porn, masturbation, and fantasy are going to potentially wreck your opportunity to have good connected, safe, trusting, intimate sex with your spouse whenever that happens. And if you use a lot of porn, by the way, you might have trouble getting an erection on your honeymoon. Not to put too sharp of pulling on it.”
Takeaway Questions from the interview
What part of Greg’s journey do you resonate with?
How has honesty been a struggle for you?
What lie are you telling yourself about your porn use?
How can you step into freedom from sexual addiction? What is your freedom for?
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