Are you afraid of being alone? Do you do everything in your power to avoid being by yourself because you know that would lead you to act out to your unwanted sexual behaviors? Brother Hasan had a debilitating fear of being alone. He wanted his wife’s company all the time, because he knew that once …
The following example of brother Salim shows just how pointing fingers as a way to justify your behaviors can actually create bigger problems in the future from quitting. Brother Salim’s wife reached out to me when she was days away from her delivery, about her husband, who, a doctor by profession, had been cheating on …
Brother Saad continuously found his mind swaying back and forth with pornographic images. He would often find himself sexualizing almost anyone and anything. This had happened even in the holiest of holy places: “While we performed ‘Umrah, we were in a place where sexuality was non existent in public. The absence of those triggers may …
Are you a sister struggling with unwanted sexual behaviors? Perhaps the question on your mind is, isn’t this a “guy’s problem”? When I first started the Purify Your Gaze program back in 2010, I have to admit that my marketing and content was geared a 100% to the male audience. As I looked through our …
One of the areas that many individuals are hit hard by their addictions is their performance at work or school. This is due to the unmanageability of their life caused by these unwanted behaviors, that prevent them from performing well or up to their potential. Here’s the story of one brother and how one of …
Discover how unresolved childhood trauma and abuse can lead to a pornography addiction in this heartfelt casestudy about a Hafidh of the Qur’an.
No matter how far you’ve gone the wrong way, you can always turn around and come back. But Sameer didn’t know how to turn back. Sameer broke down crying as we sat down to speak. After he had found some composure I asked him to relay to me what had happened that motivated him to …
There are many challenges that face the Muslim ummah. One of them is pornography addiction and its effect on marriages. This blog discusses how porn affects a marriage, what to do about it, and why it’s important for husbands and wives to protect their relationship from the harms of pornography.
A lot of people spend time looking for major signs that suggest that they are addicted, such as the frequency of engaging in their unwanted sexual behaviors in a week or in a month, or how compulsively they are accessing pornography. If these signs are not there, they discard themselves from suffering from unwanted sexual …
One of the thoughts that may be sabotaging your efforts to recover from your unwanted sexual behaviors is the belief that marriage will solve these behaviors. You may feel that your unwanted sexual behaviors aren’t really the problem and it’s just a way for you to cope with the loneliness you feel because you cannot …
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