• Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

CASTIMONIA

Sexual Purity Support & Recovery Group

  • Home
  • About Castimonia
    • Statement of Faith
    • Member Struggles
    • Are You a Sex Addict?
    • About the Leaders of Castimonia
  • Meetings
    • What to Expect at a Castimonia Meeting
    • Meeting Times & Locations
      • Alaska Meetings
      • Arkansas Meetings
      • Mississippi Meetings
      • New York Meetings
      • Ohio Meetings
      • Tennessee Meetings
      • Texas Meetings
      • Telephone Meeting
      • Zoom Online Meetings
  • News & Events
  • Resources
    • Books
    • Document Downloads
    • Journal Through Recovery
    • Purity Podcasts
    • Recovery Videos
    • Telemeeting Scripts
    • Useful Links
  • Contact Us

alcoholic

April 7, 2016 By Castimonia

Sexual Abuse Conference in Katy, TX – Saturday, April 16, 2016

Date of Event
Apr 16, 2016
08:30 AM
–04:00 PM
Location
Living Word Lutheran Church
3700 S. Mason Road
Katy, Texas 77450
——————————————-

Katy Christian Ministries Crisis Center will host a workshop that showcases the services available for sexual abuse victims.  Sexual abuse happens from a variety of situations including adult sex crimes, human trafficking, child sexual abuse, and much more.

The conference is a free community event for professionals, parents, and anyone in the community with a goal to raise awareness of sexual assault and human trafficking.  It will allow participants to gain knowledge of the resources available, strategies for prevention, and current interventions.

Make plans to attend on Saturday, April 16 from 8:30 – 4:00 pm. It will be located at Living Word Lutheran Church located at 3700 South Mason Road.

Click here to register for the event.

Contact Glenn Lerich for more information.

Filed Under: General Meeting Information, Sexual Purity Posts Tagged With: abuse, addiction, Affairs, alcoholic, castimonia, Character Defects, christian, co-dependency, Emotions, escorts, father wound, gratification, healing, human trafficking, Intimacy, Jesus Christ, lust, masturbation, meeting, porn, pornography, pornstar, pornstars, prostitutes, ptsd, purity, recovery, Sex, sex addict, sex addiction, sexual, sexual abuse, sexual addiction, sexual purity, spouses, STD, trafficking, trauma

April 5, 2016 By Castimonia

Thursday Night Castimonia Meeting Location Moved

In order to accommodate our host church, Grace Fellowship United Methodist Church, we are moving the Thursday night Katy Castimonia meeting from Room 301 of the Mansion to Room E201 of the Epicenter Youth Building.  This is actually the building where this meeting was started three years ago!  The building is located at the front of the property.  There is a parking lot and the room is at the Southwest corner of the building.  Below are the “official” details.

 

Thursday Nights
Time: 7:00PM – 8:30PM
Location: Grace Fellowship United Methodist Church – Epicenter Youth Building (front of property) Room E201
2655 South Mason Road
Katy, TX  77450
281.646.1903

Filed Under: General Meeting Information Tagged With: addiction, Affairs, alcoholic, call girls, castimonia, Character Defects, christian, co-dependency, Emotions, escorts, gratification, healing, Intimacy, Jesus Christ, lust, masturbation, meeting, porn, pornography, pornstar, pornstars, prostitutes, ptsd, purity, recovery, Sex, sex addict, sex addiction, sex partners, sexual, sexual addiction, sexual impurity, sexual purity, spouses, STD, strippers, trauma

February 26, 2016 By Castimonia

Terry Crews Details Severity of Porn Addiction in Three-Part Facebook Series: ‘I Felt Like My Wife Owed Me Sex’

As a fan of action movies (and Old Spice Commercials) it’s a blessing to see a man of Terry’s stature come forward to help others by sharing his own struggles with Pornography!

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/02/25/terry-crews-reveals-he-went-to-rehab-for-porn-in-3-part-facebook-series/

Getty Images

Getty Images

by Daniel Nussbaum25 Feb 2016

Actor Terry Crews detailed his life-long battle with an addiction to pornography and revealed how it almost derailed his marriage in a three-part video series posted to Facebook.

The 47-year-old former NFL player and Brooklyn Nine-Nine star released his latest “Dirty Little Secret” Facebook video on Tuesday. In the first video posted earlier this month, the actor revealed he went to rehab for his addiction, and said it had “really, really messed up life in a lot of ways.”

“It became a thing where I didn’t tell anybody,” Crews says in the first video. “It was my secret, nobody knew, and that allowed it to grow, and it got bad. If day turns into night and you are still watching, you probably got a problem, and that was me. I didn’t tell my wife, didn’t tell my friends, nobody knew.”

The actor added that pornography can change the way human beings view each other, not as people but as “objects” and “body parts.”

“My issue was and is with pornography is it changes the way you think about people. People become objects, people become body parts, they become things to be used rather than people to be loved,” Crews said. “You start to use people, you start to feel like you’re the man and they’re just whatever.”

In the second clip, Crews said it was important not to let a sense of shame interfere in the battle against overcoming addiction.

“Shame doesn’t say you did something bad, shame says you are bad,” he said. “And when you think and believe that you are bad, there’s no way out. You say: ‘You know what, forget it, I might as well use drugs, I might as well overeat, I might as well use porn.’ Because if you believe that are bad, then you act accordingly. What you have to change is that paradigm in your life, you have to believe that you are good.”

In the clip posted Tuesday, the actor revealed his pornography addiction became so bad he “felt like my wife owed me sex.”

“When you have a sense of entitlement, it’s extremely dangerous,” Crews said. “What entitlement does is it gives you self-pity. And self-pity — it feels good. It feels good.”

“Every man out there desires intimacy. Every time you look at pornography, it’s a desire for intimacy,” he said. “You are trying to fight your feelings of being alone by filling it with pornography in an attempt to feel that you are with someone and you know someone. But pornography is an intimacy killer. It kills all intimacy.”

Crews also cautioned both men and women to take more responsibility to combat the problem.

“You cannot accept any pornography in your man’s life. Anything that will make you feel denigrated, make you feel less than, you cannot accept it,” he said.

“I’m calling on men to be more accountable. A true man and a true woman is a person who takes responsibility for everything in his life, good and bad,” he added.

Filed Under: Sexual Purity Posts Tagged With: addiction, Affairs, alcoholic, anonymous sex partners, castimonia, Character Defects, christian, co-dependency, Emotions, escorts, father wound, gratification, healing, Intimacy, Jesus Christ, lust, masturbation, porn, pornography, pornstar, pornstars, prostitutes, ptsd, purity, recovery, Sex, sex addict, sex addiction, sex partners, sexual, sexual addiction, sexual purity, spouses, strippers, trauma

February 3, 2016 By Castimonia

Take Your Feelings As They Are

Feelings are an important part of you. In order to live fully and effectively, you need many sources of information (e.g., your senses, your thoughts, your perceptions) to guide you, motivate you, and help you make sense of things. Your emotions provide one such source. Often, there is a strong relationship between the events in your life and your feelings–for example, to feel sadness in response to loss, or to feel happiness in response to something desirable. Feelings may also be related to past events or even to expectations of the future. For example, sorrow about a recent loss may evoke sadness from past losses. These feelings can be an important source of information as well. Rather than ignore or exaggerate your feelings, it is helpful to be able to take your feelings as they are, accept them, think about them, and learn from them. When you are feeling something consider asking yourself the following kinds of questions:

What is this feeling?
What is this feeling telling me about this situation?
Why has this feeling come up right now?

http://www.counselingcenter.illinois.edu/self-help-brochures/self-awarenessself-care/experiencing-and-expressing-emotions/

Raise your words, not voice.
It is rain that grows
flowers not thunder.

Rumi

Filed Under: Sexual Purity Posts Tagged With: addiction, Affairs, alcoholic, castimonia, christian, Emotions, escorts, Feeling Words, feelings, gratification, healing, Intimacy, Jesus Christ, lust, masturbation, porn, pornography, pornstars, prostitutes, purity, recovery, Sex, sex addict, sexual, sexual addiction, sexual purity, trauma

January 26, 2016 By Castimonia

CASTIMONIA Book – Revised Edition

https://www.createspace.com/5554305

I am humbled to announce the “official” publishing of our ministry’s resource book:

CASTIMONIA

THUMBNAIL_IMAGE

Authored by Servants of Christ
Edition: First Edition (Revised)

I want to thank everyone that sent feedback to the Castimonia Literature Committee (or me) on the First Edition of the book, or the “First 50” copies.  Bill W. of Alcoholics Anonymous had the privilege of having the “First 40” of the Big Book of AA reviewed and thus Castimonia was fortunate enough to have the “First 50” reviewed.  All feedback was appreciated and changes were made to the original First Edition in order to better help men who struggle with Sexual Purity.

Castimonia is Latin for “moral purity” something every man should strive for.

Castimonia is a Christ-centered 12-Step Support and Recovery program for sexual impurity or sexual addiction with the goal to achieve a Biblically-based sexual purity. We share our experience, strength, and hope with each other so that we may achieve sexual purity and help others overcome sexual impurity or compulsive sexual behaviors.

This book is used for working the 12-step Castimonia program and should be used with the guidance of a Sponsor only.  The revised first edition includes text on a proper sexual purity recovery program, a thorough working of the 12 Steps, stories from men in the group, and a work book for working the 12-Steps.

Many thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous and Sex Addicts Anonymous for paving the way in the 12-Step world as well as the countless men in recovery and the therapists that have helped facilitate God’s healing of their wounds.  Most importantly, thank you to the patient spouses who have put up with our issues long enough to make this ministry and book possible.

Original Publication Date: August 22, 2015
Revised Edition Publication Date: January 20, 2016

ISBN/EAN13: 151531023X / 978-1515310235
Page Count: 454
Binding Type: US Trade Paper
Trim Size: 6″ x 9″
Language: English
Color: Black and White
Related Categories: Self-Help / Twelve-Step Programs

The book can be purchased at any Castimonia meeting  or via the Create Space store. 

If you are a man struggling with Sexual Purity and would like to purchase a copy of the book for the same amount as sold at Castimonia meetings ($20) please contact the publisher, Armaturam, LLC for a discount rate: Jorge@Armaturam.org

https://www.createspace.com/5554305

Filed Under: Sexual Purity Posts Tagged With: 12 step meetings, 12 steps, 12-step, addiction, affair, Affairs, alcohol, alcoholic, anonymous sex partners, Book, call girls, castimonia, Castimonia Book, Character Defects, christian, co-dependency, Emotions, father wound, gratification, healing, human trafficking, Intimacy, Jesus Christ, lust, masturbation, meeting, porn, porn star, pornography, pornstar, pornstars, prostitute, prostitutes, ptsd, purity, recovery, Sex, sex addict, sex addiction, sex partners, sexual, sexual addiction, sexual impurity, sexual purity, spouses, STD, strippers, trauma

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 110
  • Page 111
  • Page 112
  • Page 113
  • Page 114
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 133
  • Go to Next Page »

Footer

Useful Links

Castimonia Restoration Ministry, Inc. is a 501c3 non-profit organization


This site is intended for individuals who struggle with maintaining sexual purity. This information is posted for individuals at various stages in their recovery, year 1 to year 30+; what applies to some, may not apply others. Spouses are encouraged to read this blog with the caveat that they may not agree with, understand, or know the reason for some items posted. As always, take what you like and leave the rest.

Copyright © 2026 Castimonia Restoration Ministry

Loading Comments...