Welcome to Recovery, Light, and Life... I am Chris Epson and I'm in recovery from pornography and sex addiction. I know there are people who believe that those are not addictions, but just choices. And that's true...poor choice after poor choice after poor choice...will inevitably become that thing which robs us of our ability to choose. So I can affirm that they are, in fact, addictions, as insidious and dark as any addiction to drugs, alcohol, gambling, or anything else. At least they become so for me. I struggled with this on and off for over fifty years, and at the rock bottom of my struggle I had lost my ability to choose...I was "past feeling". But I was saved, literally. And to go from darkness to light has been the greatest blessing of my life. I am married to an amazing, very forgiving wife, Marilyn. We have two grown children, Kristen and Adam, and six awesome grandchildren. We are both from Cali
"Shame tells you that your behavior is evidence of your future...but really, it's just a witness of your past." Steve Shields "Ask people what they must do to get to heaven, and most reply "be good." Jesus's stories contradict that answer. All we must do is cry "help!" Phillip Yancey No doubt you've heard the term "rock bottom" used before when people are talking about their lowest point of addiction, and the event that finally kick started their beginning recovery. There are all kinds of ways to describe what rock bottom looks like, feels like, and why it, and only it, can initiate change in not just our behavior but change in our hearts. Rock bottom sucks. It hurts. It hurts so badly that the fear of change and the fear of being honest and the fear of being exposed for what we are and have been now looks like the only way out. It's full of shame, and the pain of rock bottom is worse than the fear.