353 - Becoming A Compassionate Warrior

Pure Desire Podcast

Pure Desire Ministries

Sexual Addiction Recovery, Religion & Spirituality, Celebrate Recovery, Sexuality, Porn Recovery, Porn Addiction Recovery, Health & Fitness, Aa, Education, Betrayal Trauma, Recovery, Biblical Recovery, Christian Recovery, Healing, Sa, Christianity, Self-improvement

4.6 • 682 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Many men who’ve been through the Pure Desire recovery process have asked, “What’s after Seven Pillars of Freedom?” Well, today’s episode is all about answering this question. Clinician and speaker, Robert Vander Meer, joins us to talk about our new resource, The Compassionate Warrior (to which Robert contributed). We talk through what this resource is, how it helps men see their life and recovery through the lens of “story,” and how it helps create a lasting legacy of health.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Pure Desire Podcast, helping you take back your life from unwanted sexual behavior and betrayal trauma.
0:11.8	Hello, hello. I am your host, Trevor Windsor, and you're listening to episode 353 of the Pure Desire podcast.
0:17.0	Here joining me, as always, is my co-host, Nick Stonebell.
0:19.9	You shall not pass.
0:24.2	Okay, serious question.
0:25.8	Like, I just...
0:27.6	Okay, so I just started reading Harry Potter to my seven-year-old.
0:30.8	And I, growing up...
0:32.4	You know that's not from Harry Potter, right?
0:34.1	Let me get there.
0:35.1	Okay, I'm just making sure.
0:36.8	And that's Gandalf from Lord of the Rings.
0:39.9	And specifically, I believe, is that Fellowship of the Ring?
0:44.2	Yeah, it's the first.
0:45.1	First book.
0:45.6	Okay.
0:45.9	So growing up, there was a very heavy move against Harry Potter and wizards.
0:57.4	And then I realized when I got older, Gandalf's a wizard,
1:01.3	and he's in Lord of the Rings, and it's widely accepted. And I'm sure there's other things I don't know,
1:08.7	but I just, I'm expressing a frustration I had in my childhood that it was just not okay. Yet, we saw witches and Chronicles in Ornia, and we had wizards in Lord of the Rings.
1:12.3	You know, C.S. Lewis was good friends with J.R.R. Tolkien, and Lewis is like on the Mount Rushmore
1:18.1	of Christian authors, I think. You're not wrong. You're not wrong. In the 70s and 80s for Christians,
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