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I’ve Talked With Teenage Boys About Sexual Assault for 20 Years. This Is What They Still Don’t Know
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Author Laurie Halse Anderson shares her insights into what we aren't telling our boys

Churches That Abuse
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

A look at churches that practice authoritarian leadership, manipulation, excessive discipline, and spiritual intimidation warns and informs readers about such organizations, naming names and offeri...

Mending the Soul: Understanding and Healing Abuse
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

This book provides a well-researched biblical and scientific overview of abuse. A broad overview, it deals with the various types of abuse, the various effects of abuse, and the means of healing. A...

On the Threshold of Hope
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

On the Threshold of Hope offers hope and healing to men and women who have been traumatized by sexual abuse. Dr. Langberg's insights and the quotations from many survivors assure readers that they ...

Want to see what a porn-addicted missionary looks like?
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Look pretty normal don’t I? Ok, I admit I was a bit scrawny but I come from a long line of skinny people and it was 95 degrees with 90% humidity in the Solomon Islands, so it tends to curb th…...

Raised on a Diet of Internet Porn: The Neurological Consequences of Long-term Addiction
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

This presentation was given at the 2016 Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Summit in Houston, TX, hosted by The National Center on Sexual Exploitation. 

By: Noah Church

How Porn Use Becomes an Addiction (Simplified!)
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Internet porn—used regularly and often—chemically and structurally changes the brain. These brain changes are consistent with the brain changes that occur in other types of addiction, like addictio...

Addiction is a response to emotional pain - BBC Ideas
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Addiction specialist and author Gabor Mate says dealing with past trauma may be the key to breaking addiction in this BBC Ideas video.

By Gabor Mate     Length: 3:29

Mom's Boundaries Saved My Life
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Vechi Mutum, National Outreach Coordinator for Tree House Recovery, describes how addiction took his life down to a very dark place, leaving him homeless and broken. He thought he could still call ...

Video Game Addiction - The Case for Mobile Gaming
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Mobile gaming addiction is a serious issue. The craving and reward feelings that occur from gaming are no different than drug and gambling addiction.

By: Daniel

Pediatricians warn against pot use: Not your dad's marijuana
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

An influential doctors group is beefing up warnings about marijuana's potential harms for teens amid increasingly lax laws and attitudes on pot use.

Many parents use the drug and think it...

Marijuana worse for teen brains than alcohol, study finds
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Cannabis causes lasting cognitive impairment in adolescents, according to Canadian researchers.

By: Shamard Charles, MD