Lust Recovery
Catholic recovery from porn and sex addiction

We follow the magisterial teachings of the Catholic Church on life, sexual morality, and family issues. There are no dues or fees. We are self supporting through our own contributions.

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Why is Lust Recovery successful when other attempts to beat porn and lust have failed?

Lust Recovery is a comprehensive restoration of our spiritual lives. It also instills the spiritual discipline of accountability with daily and weekly activities, both individually and in groups.

Lust Recovery treats lust as a spiritual problem and proposes a spiritual solution.  For many of us, the challenge with lust is particularly intense and chronic warranting a proportionally intense spiritual solution.

In addition to our regular Church obligations of Mass, confession, spiritual direction, etc. our program is built on 5 pillars.

The 5 Pillars of Lust Recovery

1. Spiritual Boot Camp

The Spiritual Boot Camp is an onboarding process that quickly gets the participant into a consistent state of sobriety and an accelerated start to ongoing recovery.  You can get sober right away and stay sober. Boot Camp includes:

• A focused Examination of Our Lives: Each member is led through the process highlighted by an entire weekend of doing this, of taking stock of our relationship with God, writing of a history of the role of lust in our lives, and our harms done to others.
• Reading Articles: A review of the Catholic teaching on life, sexuality, and family.
• Silent retreat weekend: This is usually done at a retreat house in your area and includes confession with a priest. It is a time to be silent and reflect on your life and your new direction.

2. Daily Spiritual Homework

Consistent sobriety and fruitful ongoing recovery requires getting and staying in “spiritual shape” supported through the daily spiritual homework:

• 15 minutes a day, journaling/examination of conscience
• 15 minutes a day of prayer
• 15 minutes a day of Bible reading (from Genesis to Revelation in order)
• 5 minutes a day of reading from the Catechism 
• Once a week reading news from a family friendly site
• Any amends that we need to make with family, work, etc. so that our spiritual lives continue to be clean
• Use the shield prayer whenever temptation arises

3. Daily Renewal Call

Living-out sobriety one-day-at-a-time is supported through the daily renewal call. Accountability has long been understood to be a pillar of a disciplined spiritual life. Each member makes a daily call to their sponsor that usually lasts 3-10 minutes. It reviews the last 24 hours for temptations, spiritual noise, near occasions of sin, and things we’re grateful for. It opens and closes in prayer and includes a check-in on how we did on our spiritual homework for the previous day.

4. Weekly Meeting

Fellowship is a powerful mechanism to stay strong spiritually and sober. The weekly meetings of 3-6 people focus less on lust and more on becoming a better disciple, which we think is the best path to recovery. Members take turns reviewing what is going on in their lives and committing to an area where they can improve. At the end of the meeting the member who's turn it is, makes a "surrender" where they commit to improving one area of their life.

The meeting is usually remote, although there may be local face to face meetings in the future. The calls usually last about 45-60 minutes and include a check in by all members on how they are doing on their most recent area of improvement.

5. Sponsorship

Helping others get and stay sober from lust is a key way to strengthen ourselves. Once we are stable in our recovery, we sponsor 2-3 people. We help new members get through their boot camp and other parts of their preparation, as well as receive a daily call from each person we sponsor. 

“Freely we have received and freely we give.” (Matthew 10:8)

Sponsorship helps us in our own commitment to a life of recovery.

In summary

This is a comprehensive program. It takes an initial burst of activity which settles into an average of about 60 minutes a day of dedicated time. We think that any serious disciple of our Lord should approach their lives with dedication, commitment and intentionality.

We understand the gravity of lust and how important it is to root it out of our lives from top to bottom. Half measures availed us nothing. When we think about all the time we win back from not being a slave to porn and lust, we realize that we have more time than we had before we started the program and we are more fully living the Lord’s call on our lives.

Testimonies

I was really desperate in 2009. I felt that I had hit rock bottom with something that was enslaving me and over which I had no control whatsoever. Thinking of sex had become an obsession since my early teenage years and for a long time I struggled but continued to slide. One day I decided to look for help and spoke to a priest friend of mine who invited me to an event on family life and human sexuality at his parish. I attended a talk by a speaker who impressed me with his testimonial of victory over the bondage of lust. It was him who got me connected to Lust Recovery. With nothing left untried, Lust Recovery has been the only initiative that has kept me sober and accountable all these years. Today, I am grateful beyond words to all of those in this amazing group. Lust Recovery is unquestionably the best tool available for anyone serious about overcoming sexual addiction. (Member)

I had a seasonal but chronic masturbation problem since my youth.  Despite the intensity of my Catholic faith, I wasn't able to get free from it until I joined Lust Recovery.  I've been free from any physical acting-out of lust for three years.  The program has also given me the tools I need to deal with the mental aspect of lust.  I'm convinced that there is a real wisdom and grace in this program.  I highly recommend it to anyone who is serious about getting victory over lust. (Member)

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