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How Grief Can Affect You from Having an Incredible Marriage

As a counselor, I have helped many people grieve many different events or realities in their lives. In grief counseling, the model for grief comes from Kübler Ross who studied people dying. She identified the grief stage as: shock, denial, anger, bargaining, sadness, and acceptance.

Identify your emotions with this helpful exercise

It is time to get emotionally stronger! This exercise is going to take you to another level of experiencing your emotions and expanding your ability to feel any emotion you choose. Remember, emotions are not cognitions or thoughts. Emotions are an entirely different way through which we experience, process, and influence our environment and relationships.

If you think you can control lust, you are deceived

Revelation 2:20 introduces the “woman Jezebel.” The Lord is using a name from the Old Testament to describe this woman’s character. The original Jezebel was introduced in the book of 1 Kings as the wife of King Ahab. She had profound influence and used it for evil. She quickly became the most feared person in Israel. The Bible records several incidents that made her infamous for evil deeds ranging from false accusations to mass murder to assassination to forgery. The name Jezebel is casually used as a woman who cheats, is immoral or controlling. She derived her power from her sexuality; she got all dolled up for Jehu even though he killed her husband, King Ahab and used it to dominate, control, manipulate, and murder. From that one sin came all the other evils that plagued Israel during her reign. One result of her seduction was the massacre of the prophets of the Lord. She even struck fear into Elijah’s heart, one of the most powerful prophets ever to walk the earth. In…

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Relational Context

When you look at a woman through a relational lens—seeing her as a whole person rather than a body—you’ll find it much harder to give in to lust. Lust thrives in detachment. It reduces a person to parts. But when you consciously place a woman in a human, relational, or even spiritual context, it shifts your perspective. She is someone’s daughter, someone made in the image of God, someone with a story, dreams, fears, and dignity. That awareness breaks the power of objectification.

Leaving Your Comfort Zone

Marriage is, in many ways, a continuous act of stepping beyond your comfort zone—for the sake of love, growth, and connection. As a partner, you’re not just sharing a life, you’re choosing to explore another person’s world—a world shaped by different experiences, perspectives, and values. Just as Texas is not the same as Pennsylvania, your spouse's inner world will feel foreign at times, unfamiliar in both beautiful and challenging ways.

Character Development

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Step One for Intimacy Anorexia - "Had Become"

We admitted we were powerless over our intimacy anorexia—that our lives had become unmanageable.

Step One For Intimacy Anorexia - "That Our Lives"

We admitted we were powerless over our intimacy anorexia—that our lives had become unmanageable.

Clean Class

Clean Class Five
- As a Christian man your sex organ has three owners:
Clean Class Four
Dr. Doug Weiss, professional psychologist and president of AASAT, discusses in this 4th Session of our Clean Class the two ways Christians approach the problem of being clean or not and the two sided problem that can occur if we are not clean.
Clean Class Three
In this 3rd session of our Clean Class, Dr. Doug Weiss, professional psychologist and president of the AASAT group discusses how your sexuality affects you and those around you, the importance of staying clean from sex addiction and how to do so.
Clean Class- Day Two
Dr. Weiss talks about what it means to be a protector and the role of men to protect women. Staying clean from sex addiction. Marriage was God's final creation. When you are married, you are God's son in law. How do you think God would grade you as his son in law? What we love we protect, and what we protect we love. If you are protecting a sexual secret, then you are loving the behavior or the pornography and hurting the people you love.
Clean Class - Day One
In this session I want you to prayerfully consider your boundaries around:

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