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What We Really Want: Conversations About Connection

What We Really Want: Conversations About Connection

著者： Greg Oliver
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If it's true that "...the opposite of addiction is not sobriety...the opposite of addiction is connection," there are lots of people who need to discover what true, healthy connection looks like. Whether the struggle is with addiction, toxic relationship dynamics, or something else, we've all tried to meet our needs in unhealthy ways. Way too often, the things we run to for comfort leave us feeling even more disconnected and alone than before.

Through conversations about the many ways we can connect, we offer an invitation to discover and move toward what we really want, so we can live the lives we were created for.

Awaken (awakenrecovery.com) helps men and women whose lives have been wrecked by unwanted/addictive sexual behaviors and sexual betrayal trauma. We hope the podcast will help not only those struggling sexually, but anyone who seeks healthier ways of finding connection.

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  • 62 | Andrew Bauman: I Want To Be A Good Man

    62 | Andrew Bauman: I Want To Be A Good Man
    2026/03/17

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    Have Christian men been conditioned to accept behaviors that marginalize and abuse women? When does normal relational conflict cross the line and become abusive? Has the Church been complicit in creating inequity between men and women?

    Questions like these represent much of the work of our guest, Dr. Andrew Bauman. Andrew is a therapist and the Founder and Director of the Christian Counseling Center for Sexual Health & Trauma. His dissertation was on studying the impact of sexism and abuse on women in the Protestant Church.

    Andrew is the author of seven books, and his newest book is called SAFE CHURCH: How to Guard Against Sexism & Abuse in Christian Communities.

    Andrew's wife, Dr. Christy Bauman, is also a therapist and author. They live and work in Brevard, NC.

    #andrewbauman #andrewjbauman #safechurch #sexism #mutuality #abuse #christybauman #counseling #coaching #gospel #sexualaddiction #sexaddiction #awaken #awakenrecovery #awakenpodcast #whatwereallywant #wwrw #grace #connection #conversation

    Christian Counseling Center for Sexual Health & Trauma website

    Andrew's personal website

    Man Land info page

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    39 分
  • 61 | Jay Stringer: Listen to the Voice of Desire, part 2

    61 | Jay Stringer: Listen to the Voice of Desire, part 2
    2026/03/10

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    Here is Part 2 of our conversation with Jay Stringer.

    Last week Jay released his book, Desire: The Longings Inside Us and the New Science of How We Love, Heal, and Grow. Moving beyond the singular experience of sexual struggles found in his first book Unwanted, Desire offers a critically important opportunity to better understand the core longings created in every person. To see desire as good, part of how we reflect the image of God. To be curious about our experiences with desire - how it's been encouraged, discouraged, or even prohibited.

    Jay's book explores desire through the five core longings that show up in all of our lives: The desires for wholeness, growth, intimacy, pleasure, and meaning. Through better understanding our relationship to desire, we can live more fully the lives we were created to live.

    Jay lives in New York City with his wife Heather and their children.

    #jaystringer #unwanted #desire #storywork #sexuality #masculinity #counseling #coaching #gospel #sexualaddiction #sexaddiction #awaken #awakenrecovery #awakenpodcast #whatwereallywant #wwrw #grace #connection #conversation

    Jay's website

    Jay's books (Amazon)

    Holistic Desire website


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    43 分
  • 60 | Jay Stringer: Listen to the Voice of Desire, part 1

    60 | Jay Stringer: Listen to the Voice of Desire, part 1
    2026/03/03

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    For people interested in digging deeply into their stories and better understanding themselves and the unwanted behaviors that plague them, few people have been as helpful as Jay Stringer.

    In 2018, Jay's book Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing invited readers to a new approach to unwanted sexual behaviors: one that begins by "listening to our lust." Jay encouraged readers to see their struggles as a roadmap to past harms and current hinderances to freedom.

    Now he's released his second book, Desire: The Longings Inside Us and the New Science of How We Love, Heal, and Grow. Moving beyond the singular experience of sexual struggles, Desire offers a critically important opportunity to better understand the core longings created in every person. To see desire as good, part of how we reflect the image of God. To be curious about our experiences with desire - how it's been encouraged, discouraged, or even prohibited. Through better understanding our relationship to desire, we can live more fully the lives we were created to live.

    This conversation was too good to abbreviate, so we split it into two parts... the second half will be available Tuesday, March 10.

    Jay lives in New York City with his wife Heather and their children.

    #jaystringer #unwanted #desire #storywork #sexuality #masculinity #counseling #coaching #gospel #sexualaddiction #sexaddiction #awaken #awakenrecovery #awakenpodcast #whatwereallywant #wwrw #grace #connection #conversation

    Jay's website

    Jay's books (Amazon)

    Holistic Desire website

    Support the show

    Awaken website
    Roots Retreat Men's Intensive
    Roots Retreat Women's Workshop
    Awaken Men & Women's support meeting info (including virtual)
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    38 分
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