Hi, I'm Dan Elmdur, and I want to speak for a moment to the men who are listening, and even more so, to the people who love them.

Since 1988, I've been leading recovery weeks for both men and women.

And these six-day in-person, intensive workshops, are designed to create a healing,

relational space for survivors of childhood sexual abuse to engage their stories.

But here's the reality.

Many men struggle to even name their experiences as abuse.

How many men have been able to name their first experience with pornography as a form of sexual abuse?

It's so hard to name what still bears shame.

And we've got to have both the support and courage to be able to enter those stories with a kind of kindness that allows them to be radically changed.

But when your culture tells you to just push through, to move on, to carry it alone,

but you just know that silence will never erase the wounds. The impact of betrayal, powerlessness,

shame, self-contempt shapes the way we lived and the way we live. And it will not change through

mere desire or prayer. It's got to be through the engagement with story. And that's why

Recovery Week exists. This is really a rare opportunity of time and space to step away from the noise, to be in a room with other men who understand what's really happening in your body, your heart and mind as a consequence of the past abuse.

And have both the language and the courage to begin the

process of helping you reclaim your story. Every year, a small group of men say yes to this process,

and every year, in ways that will sound perhaps like a sales job.

But let me simply tell you, we have seen some of the sweetest and most profound transformation

that I see in my work. It is one of the most favored and significant weeks I spend every year.

Though this is an advertisement, it's more of an invitation.

And I hope you'll consider joining us in this life-changing experience.

If you want to learn more about the upcoming dates and the application process for

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