Hello there, good listener. I am your host, Nick Stumbo, and you are listening to The Pure Desire

podcast, your biblically based and clinically informed approach to healing from betrayal and breaking

free from all forms of compulsive sexual behavior. And whether today is your first day in recovery or

your 10,000, we hope that these are conversations that as you hear them will encourage you and

give you direction in your journey. Today is episode 460 and here joining me as my co-host for this

new series and a co-host for the first time is Rebecca Van Damir. Rebecca,

welcome to the podcast. Hey, hey, thank you. It is lovely to be here, especially as a co-host. It's my

first time as you just shared. And so it's, I'm looking forward to being on the other side of.

Yeah, yeah, this is fun. We've had you on the podcast you and your husband bob

are clinicians here at pure desire and help a lot of couples and we're launching a series on

couples recovery you know essentially looking at he might do his work she does her work we do a lot

of that in groups alone and then there's these question marks of like, how do we do this together?

How do we navigate marriage? And it felt like because you do so much that with our clients,

you'd be a great co-host to bring that perspective on how do we heal the marriage, even if we've

done some good work in healing ourselves. Yeah, I love that, especially as you mentioned, you know,

a lot of the people doing groups or maybe even counseling,

like personally, individually.

That's one part of recovery, right?

But then there's that relational portion that for some people, they either have questions

and maybe they don't have the resources to do couples counseling.

And maybe the partner is not in the recovery process as much as they are.

And so I feel like this series is going to be so helpful to bring in those two sides of the coin

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