426 - The Ideal Group Member: Planning Recovery Beyond Year 1

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🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Debby Flanagan shares valuable insight into what comes after the first year of recovery—a season often marked by both growth and new challenges. As the initial intensity of group begins to settle, many wonder: What’s next? Debby offers guidance on how to discern the right next step—whether it’s repeating a group, starting a new workbook, or stepping into leadership. She unpacks what it means to have a long-term vision for recovery while remaining grounded in the present moment. You’ll hear about the shifting dynamics of recovery in Year 2 and beyond, the potential for plateau, and how to reignite momentum when things feel stale. Debby also emphasizes the ongoing importance of community, intentional relationships, and practical ways to keep your recovery work fresh and meaningful. Whether you're stepping into your second year or helping someone else navigate theirs, this episode is packed with wisdom to help you stay committed, energized, and hopeful for the road ahead.

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0:00.0	Hello there, good listener. I am your host, Nick Stumbo, and you are listening to the
0:09.4	Pure Desire podcast, your bivocally based and clinically informed approach to healing from betrayal
0:14.6	and breaking free from compulsive sexual behaviors. Today is episode 426, and here joining me for the last time in this
0:24.3	series is my co-host, Stuart Blade. Stuart, welcome back one more time. Yeah, it's been great to be here.
0:29.2	That is for sure. Yeah, now it is interesting because we're not actually recording these in order,
0:33.7	but today is the last of part four of four. Yes four of this series we've been doing on the ideal
0:39.6	group member and trying to help people just think through how do I have a really positive
0:44.0	life-changing experience as I go through a group. And part of that is to start asking the question,
0:50.1	what's next? What do I do after my first group? And so today we had Debbie Flanagan on with us to
0:56.8	start answering that question. Yeah, what I take away from this episode is you think back to the
1:02.8	beginning when we were with Rich and that idea where you can kind of have people be like 10 months,
1:07.8	are you serious? Like that's how long these groups are going to take. And then
1:11.7	the reality is it goes by very quickly. And then it's just that mindset of like, what is next? And so
1:20.3	that's what we focus on today is just what is next? What does your two look like? What does
1:24.9	recovery and moving into the next phase look like after
1:28.4	that first group? Yeah, if I'm honest, sometimes we do try to downplay that you might do group
1:34.2	for years because if you don't understand the power of group and what happens, like, and you're at
1:40.0	the front end and someone says you might do this for years, it's like, uh, no thanks no thanks. No, I will not. And not everyone has to stay in group or we'll choose to, but many of us
1:50.4	experience so much health and community and connection. We're like, I've got to keep doing group,
1:56.2	or I want to help others. I want to take this to my church. And so I think wherever someone is at,
2:00.7	today was an
2:01.3	episode that just gives you a lot of ideas of how do you take whatever God does in your life
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