422 - Developing a Spiritual Growth Plan

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

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In this transformative episode, Harry Flanagan unpacks the vital role of a spiritual growth plan in long-term healing and freedom. He shares why a clear, intentional path isn’t just helpful—it’s essential, especially for those navigating recovery. What does a spiritual growth plan actually look like? Is there a rhythm that fosters consistency without becoming rigid? Harry addresses common gaps in spiritual development, particularly when someone feels disconnected from God or has experienced spiritual trauma. You’ll also hear how practices like Scripture reading, prayer, and worship impact the brain, body, and soul—offering holistic support in the healing journey. Plus, we explore the irreplaceable role of community in accountability and encouragement. For those feeling stuck despite doing all the “right” things, Harry offers both grace and practical tools to move forward with hope. Whether you're building your plan or needing fresh perspective, this episode meets you right where you are.

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0:00.0	Hello, hello there, good listener.
0:06.3	I'm your host, Nick Stumbo, and you are listening to The Pure Desire Podcast,
0:10.6	your biblically based and clinically informed approach to breaking free from
0:14.3	compulsive sexual behaviors and healing from betrayal trauma.
0:18.4	Today is episode 422 and here joining me as my co-host for most of this series,
0:25.0	as listeners will have found out if they've been listening to all six of these. Joining me today is
0:29.2	Mr. John Beggeman. It's an honor to be here. I so love having these conversations with you.
0:35.3	Yeah, this has been, I think, a powerful series. It's, you know,
0:38.9	one of the things we talked about is in recovery, we can kind of get used to the journey and it's
0:43.5	something we've been, you know, you're in what year five and I'm year 15. It's like this is familiar
0:48.4	territory, but we really wanted to create a series and I hope this has been the case for many of you
0:52.9	that kind of goes back to the
0:54.5	beginning and if you are early in recovery if you're just starting your first group or if you're
0:58.1	trying to decide if I need group this series has been for you to understand what are some of the
1:02.9	elemental building blocks of recovery and so today's conversation was really leaning into that
1:08.3	long-term healing of a spiritual growth plan, of continuing
1:11.7	to grow spiritually with God and with others. And we could think of nobody better to have on
1:16.8	than our good friend, Father Harry Flanagan, as he's known around here, one of the counseling,
1:22.5	part of the counseling team here at Pure Desire. And today, Harry, you know, you may be expected
1:27.2	it's going to be a lot about, well, here's how to have spiritual discipline. Here's how to have a prayer time. Today was a much deeper conversation than that. John, what did you think of today's conversation? It is always fun to me how these conversations take shape because so much of it was like, oh, here's what spiritual disciplines or practices could look like. And basically
1:44.5	we were like, okay, let's let's forget about that for a second because if we don't do the deeper
1:48.4	work, we don't really get to engage those in healthy, accurate ways. And so a lot of this conversation
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