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Restored: True Stories of Love and Trust after Porn
Porn Kills Love…These Couples Brought It Back To Life
Pornography is a cancer of the spirit that not only darkens the minds and souls of those who use it—it corrodes their relationships. It destroys trust, deadens intimacy, and erects barriers of shame, anger, and betrayal between husbands and wives, between parents and children.
But this cancer can be cured. Love and trust can be built again.
In Restored you’ll read ten honest, hard-hitting accounts of real women and couples whose lives were shattered by porn’s destructive effects. But because God’s grace is stronger, they were able to find healing and hope, trust renewed, and intimacy Restored.
Pornography is a cancer of the spirit that not only darkens the minds and souls of those who use it—it corrodes their relationships. It destroys trust, deadens intimacy, and erects barriers of shame, anger, and betrayal between husbands and wives, between parents and children.
But this cancer can be cured. Love and trust can be built again.
In Restored you’ll read ten honest, hard-hitting accounts of real women and couples whose lives were shattered by porn’s destructive effects. But because God’s grace is stronger, they were able to find healing and hope, trust renewed, and intimacy Restored.
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159 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 19, 2015
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About the author
Matt Fradd
20 books178 followersMatthew Fradd is Australian by birth and Catholic by choice. After experiencing a profound conversion at World Youth Day in Rome in 2000, Matthew committed himself to inviting others to know Jesus Christ and the Church He founded. As a missionary in Canada and Ireland, Matthew proclaimed the Gospel to over ten thousand teens and young adults. Matthew has also served the Church through full-time lay ministry in Australia,Ireland, Canada, and Texas. Matthew has been seen or heard on the BBC, EWTN, The Irish Morning Show, and Catholic Answers Live, where he has shared his personal story of sin, redemption, and healing to people all over the world.
Recently, Matthew, his fearless Texan wife, and their three beautiful children (Liam, Avila, and baby on the way) moved to sunny San Diego where Matthew now works as an Apologist and Speaker with Catholic Answers. Matthew best demonstrates his infectious passion for the faith when he speaks about the many wounds that pornography inflicts, the healing that Christ offers in the Sacraments, and the freedom that the Church proposes in Her teachings on the virtue of chastity.
In recent years, Matthew has confronted our pornographic culture and has launched the website www.theporneffect.com. With patient understanding and yet with firm resolve, Matthew has pointed those who are addicted to or who have been wounded by pornography to the only source of true freedom and lasting healing: Jesus Christ and the Sacraments.
Matthew Fradd has been heard or seen on the BBC, EWTN, The Irish Morning Show, and Catholic Answers Live, and he continues to share his personal story of addiction, redemption, and healing to people all over the world.
Recently, Matthew, his fearless Texan wife, and their three beautiful children (Liam, Avila, and baby on the way) moved to sunny San Diego where Matthew now works as an Apologist and Speaker with Catholic Answers. Matthew best demonstrates his infectious passion for the faith when he speaks about the many wounds that pornography inflicts, the healing that Christ offers in the Sacraments, and the freedom that the Church proposes in Her teachings on the virtue of chastity.
In recent years, Matthew has confronted our pornographic culture and has launched the website www.theporneffect.com. With patient understanding and yet with firm resolve, Matthew has pointed those who are addicted to or who have been wounded by pornography to the only source of true freedom and lasting healing: Jesus Christ and the Sacraments.
Matthew Fradd has been heard or seen on the BBC, EWTN, The Irish Morning Show, and Catholic Answers Live, and he continues to share his personal story of addiction, redemption, and healing to people all over the world.
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March 15, 2016
These are stories that need to be told. Untold number of women suffer the devastating effects of a spouse's addiction, and it's time for them to have a voice. Heartbreaking and inspirational at the same time, I recommend this to anyone who has been touched by the evils of sexual addiction.
June 23, 2016
Great book
February 4, 2017
The principles in this book apply to anyone seeking to repair broken trust in a relationship, not just in the context of a porn addiction.
February 2, 2016
One of the great “advantages” of social media is that dirty laundry is so much easier to air. There have always been celebrity scandals, but they are much more accessible these days, and so much more satisfying than focusing on our own problems. Yes, celebrities are supposed to be role models and all that, but if you’re using that as the justification for your “righteous anger,” well, you’re gonna have a hard time finding a celebrity, or, you know, anyone, who never makes mistakes.
That’s probably why Matt and Cameron Fradd’s newest book is called Restored. This is a book that is hard to read, in a good way. It chronicles the suffering and wounds caused by sexual addiction and pornography. But more importantly, it chronicles the healing and restoration of these wounded families.
These are stories of survivors, not just of addictions, but betrayal by the ones they loved most. Our culture has a severe lack of strong men, and reading these testimonies reinforces the reality of that deficiency while women are left to pick up the pieces. But these stories highlight another reality too: that we’re all broken, and we all need forgiveness.
We’ve all messed up, some of us in bigger ways than others. Its one of the things that makes us human. So if we’re going to choose to love someone, we don’t get to just choose the happy times and the good qualities. We get the bumps and the bruises, and the failings too. But we love anyway. And although it may take awhile, we let go, even though the fellow human we love is guaranteed to fall again in some way or another, as we all are.
There are a lot of opinions about judging these days, when its appropriate, or when it isn’t, but one of our societies biggest failings is judging without love and forgiveness. As many women writing in Restored point out, this doesn’t mean blindly trusting those who have hurt you, but it does mean healing, both for the offender and the offended. The men in this book committed themselves to healing, no matter how many times they fell. That’s love too. Getting back up for yourself, for your family, and for God.
So whether you’ve been hurt, or you’ve hurt others (everyone qualifies for both at certain points in their lives), read this book. These are complete stories of love, not because the subjects are perfect, but because they have made the choice to love one another, even though they aren’t perfect.
This is a book which gives witness to freedom, and we all desire that, but not the freedom to just do whatever we want. This is true freedom, to choose to love and forgive. Even if you’re not dealing with the same exact issues depicted here, if you need to forgive, read this book. If you need forgiveness, read this book. Let the testimony of the fellow fallen give you hope for your future, strength to repent and recover, and hope to be Restored.
That’s probably why Matt and Cameron Fradd’s newest book is called Restored. This is a book that is hard to read, in a good way. It chronicles the suffering and wounds caused by sexual addiction and pornography. But more importantly, it chronicles the healing and restoration of these wounded families.
These are stories of survivors, not just of addictions, but betrayal by the ones they loved most. Our culture has a severe lack of strong men, and reading these testimonies reinforces the reality of that deficiency while women are left to pick up the pieces. But these stories highlight another reality too: that we’re all broken, and we all need forgiveness.
We’ve all messed up, some of us in bigger ways than others. Its one of the things that makes us human. So if we’re going to choose to love someone, we don’t get to just choose the happy times and the good qualities. We get the bumps and the bruises, and the failings too. But we love anyway. And although it may take awhile, we let go, even though the fellow human we love is guaranteed to fall again in some way or another, as we all are.
There are a lot of opinions about judging these days, when its appropriate, or when it isn’t, but one of our societies biggest failings is judging without love and forgiveness. As many women writing in Restored point out, this doesn’t mean blindly trusting those who have hurt you, but it does mean healing, both for the offender and the offended. The men in this book committed themselves to healing, no matter how many times they fell. That’s love too. Getting back up for yourself, for your family, and for God.
So whether you’ve been hurt, or you’ve hurt others (everyone qualifies for both at certain points in their lives), read this book. These are complete stories of love, not because the subjects are perfect, but because they have made the choice to love one another, even though they aren’t perfect.
This is a book which gives witness to freedom, and we all desire that, but not the freedom to just do whatever we want. This is true freedom, to choose to love and forgive. Even if you’re not dealing with the same exact issues depicted here, if you need to forgive, read this book. If you need forgiveness, read this book. Let the testimony of the fellow fallen give you hope for your future, strength to repent and recover, and hope to be Restored.
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