The ChurchofJesusChrist.org website has an entire section dedicated to addressing pornography. There are subsections for individuals, spouses, parents, and leaders. Included in these sections are many short videos, which are also available now on YouTube. We have collected them here for easy reference and sharing. They are divided across seven pages to make page loading easier for the viewer.
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Relying on Jesus Christ to Overcome Pornography Use
How Can I Best Help My Spouse Recover from Pornography Use?
How Can Connecting with Others Help Me Overcome Pornography?
Being Accountable When Overcoming Pornography
How to Make Decisions When Your Spouse Is Using Pornography
How to Make and Adjust Plans to Overcome Pornography
Who Can I Turn to for Support in Overcoming Pornography?
How Can I Avoid Relapses with Pornography Use?
Why Doesn’t God Just Take My Pornography Problem Away?
Jesus Christ and His Atonement in Overcoming Pornography
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Relying on Jesus Christ to Overcome Pornography Use
Making any change, including overcoming pornography, takes time and will not happen all at once. During this life, we are to grow, improve, and become more like Jesus Christ. This can only happen through the power of Jesus Christ and His Atonement. As individuals, we don’t have the power to become new without His help. Our dispositions can be changed through the Holy Ghost. We have to rely on the Lord to develop humilIty, and we must be honest about our need for His help as we submit to His will.
How Can I Best Help My Spouse Recover from Pornography Use?
As a spouse, we want to do everything in our power to help our spouses recover from pornography use. We may try to control our spouses’ behavior, or we may find ourselves in the role of the enforcer. However, this is not a healthy role for us to take. Our spouse is the only person who can change his or her behavior. We can’t carry the weight of someone’s agency. We can encourage and support, but we can’t control our spouse’s behavior. It’s important for spouse to take care of their own recovery and then to heal the marriage together.
How Can Connecting with Others Help Me Overcome Pornography?
Connecting with others can help you to overcome pornography. Using pornography often leads us to distance ourselves from others. Additionally, our pornography use may have harmed our relationships. It’s important to connect with others to get support. Having healthy relationships helps us overcome the objectification of pornography. We can rebuild relationships with our loved ones and with our Heavenly Father, and by doing so, we can connect and receive support.
Being Accountable When Overcoming Pornography
Being accountable is key to overcoming a pornography problem. Accountability helps us take responsibility for our actions and work to change. Overcoming our pornography problems is within our control. We can have the help of Jesus Christ and His Atonement as we seek to overcome pornography.
How to Make Decisions When Your Spouse Is Using Pornography
Making decisions when your spouse is struggling with porn can be daunting–you may have many difficult decisions to make. You can approach the Lord in prayer and ask for help from your loved ones. As you seek to counsel with the Lord and study the scriptures, you can find the answers you need.
How to Make and Adjust Plans to Overcome Pornography
Setting goals and adjusting them is important in overcoming pornography. When people use pornography, most often their use is connected to biological, psychological, social, and spiritual issues. It’s important to make a plan for addressing these influences and areas of our lives. When we relapse, we can use our slip up as a learning experience. We can use what we learn about ourselves to do better in the future. Overcoming pornography is a process, not a quick solution.
Who Can I Turn to for Support in Overcoming Pornography?
When you struggle with pornography, it can be helpful to ask for help from others, including God, your bishop, and, if you’re married, your spouse. You might also ask for help from other people you trust, such as family members, parents, or friends. Being honest about your struggle with pornography can give you strength and hope and can help you build accountability.
How Can I Avoid Relapses with Pornography Use?
When we’re seeking to prevent relapses with pornography, it can be helpful to be accountable on a daily basis. We might have a daily support person or accountability partner to check in with. This support person might be your spouse if you’re married or your parents if you’re an adolescent. Setting boundaries can help us hold ourselves accountable. Accountability and connection are important in recovery.
Why Doesn’t God Just Take My Pornography Problem Away?
Many of us want God to just take our pornography problem away from us. However, Heavenly Father doesn’t want us to just abstain from pornography; He wants us to grow and become better people. God has the power to help us turn our struggles and weaknesses into strengths. Changing is a process, and it won’t happen overnight. God may not take our struggles away, but He can help us through the process.
Jesus Christ and His Atonement in Overcoming Pornography
Jesus Christ and His Atonement are vital to overcoming problems like pornography. President Russell M. Nelson discusses how God’s work and glory is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. This is made possible through Jesus Christ and His Atonement. Christ has the power to lift us from our sins and lead us to eternal life. As imperfect beings, we require the help of the Savior to achieve forgiveness from our sins. After we do all that we can do, Jesus Christ will restore the rest.
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