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EP 95: Hunter's Story
Unashamed Unafraid
English - February 06, 2024 15:00 - 47 minutes - 65.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 223 ratingsSexuality Health & Fitness Religion & Spirituality Christianity 12step addictionrecovery compulsivesexualbehavior pornography pornographyaddiction sex sexualaddiction twelvestep Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
My name is Hunter and this is my story. From the outside, my life seemed to be on a perfect track for success and happiness. I grew up with two parents in a loving and loyal family. I was a talented young man who especially did well in school. All of the adults around me felt that I had a bright future ahead of me in basically any career that I could want. My peers all saw me as simply another kid who was goofy and got good grades. But on the inside, I had a pain that I couldn't even fully admit to myself.
Eventually I could no longer avoid the pain, and I found myself in the world of addiction recovery. After years of brutal self-honesty and therapy, I discovered that my relationship with my father largely shaped my view of myself. I had learned to push myself to become better using shame and unreasonable expectations: the way that my father had done with me. This shame-rooted relationship with my father then formed a lens that caused me to see God as a God of expectation. A God I couldn’t approach without feeling shame.
Listen to my story to hear how I began to shed this lens and also see myself in a light of grace and self-worth.
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