Freedom from Pornography Part 2
Interview with Steve Pokorny
Freedom from Pornography Part 2 with Steve Pokorny, founder of Freedom Coaching and author of Redeemed Vision: Setting the Blind Free from the Pornified Culture, sat down with me to finish our discussion. Make sure you check out Part 1 from last week to hear how Steve himself ended up addicted to pornography. It’s amazing how the Lord uses those who have struggled and suffered to minister to the very people who are struggling the way they once did. He, indeed, is the Redeemer! Find Steve’s site at Freedom-Coaching.net.
He lost his father and mother to cancer, so he was desperate to learn how to pray. He began to have a relationship with the Lord but hadn’t yet opened to Him the area of pornography. He moved in with his aunt and uncle. He was highly involved in school but didn’t feel known for who he really was. He was living in a sexual silence because he wasn’t being educated on human sexuality. His identity was being chipped away at by his addiction to porn.
Steve highly recommends the document Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality. It’s only by living in the truth that we are set free. He was in the seminary in Cleveland, OH, for four years and still didn’t receive proper healthy sexual formation.
Steve met a girl he really came to care about, and his love was unrequited. He tried to cope with the apparent rejection by way of pornography. He discerned out of seminary, taught for a year, and then ended up at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. The Lord broke into his life at a Festival of Praise at FUS. He was coming to know the Lord’s love and his identity as God’s son. The Father’s love broke in and changed his desire to lust after women to want to serve them. He ended up backsliding and wondering if it that freedom had been a mirage. He ended up finding Theology of the Body but living with the struggle towards porn.
Steve shared that he went through a week of intensive trauma therapy with me and that through the experience, the Lord set him free from the guilt and shame he was carrying and from the addiction to pornography.
No matter your struggles, the Lord can set you free and redeem the pain for your good and His glory. There is nothing beyond His reach.
May the Lord give you peace!
Margaret
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