Boundaries Support Group starts Thursday!

Don't miss our first Boundaries support group ...

When we live with an addict of any kind, boundaries become particularly important. But when we live with a sex addict, they become imperative!

We are excited that Christy, a certified Coach, is here to help partners develop or hone essential boundaries skills using the Boundaries materials.

• Learn to set clear boundaries in your life
• Establish what you are or are not responsible for
• Protect yourself using physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual boundaries

The next Boundaries group starts on Thursday, July 31st at 10:00 am (Central Standard Time).This group will meet each Thursday for 14 weeks!

We limit this group to 5 wives of sex addicts and only have 3 open seats!

] Register for the next Boundaries group

You will need the Boundaries book and workbook by Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend for this group. If you cannot attend the next group, you can still get the book and workbook (below) and familiarize yourself with the materials to attend a future group.

] Order the Boundaries book and workbook on Amazon

Welcome, Christy, & New Boundaries Telephone Support Groups

A Woman’s Healing Journey welcomes a new ministry team member, Coach Christy! A friend of Marsha’s since 2001, Christy comes with a strong recovery journey of her own and years of practice walking alongside other hurting women. You can learn more about Christy in her bio.

We're delighted to announce that Christy will launch our first Boundaries Telephone Support Group this month, enabling us to offer this much-needed curriculum to partners of sex addicts.
When we live with an addict of any kind, boundaries become particularly important. But when we live with a sex addict, they become imperative! We are excited to announce that with Christy on board we can now help partners develop or hone essential boundaries skills.

You can learn more about the Boundaries groups based on Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend’s wonderful book and workbook. These groups will follow the same format used in the Partner’s Healing Journey telephone support groups, enabling us to keep the groups small so each participant has plenty of time to share and integrate the material into her life.

We are excited that God is allowing us to walk alongside an increasing number of hurting women with our expanding ministry team. In the months to come, watch for other new resources led by Christy at www.awomanshealingjourney.com. Join us in welcoming Christy on board!

] Learn about the Boundaries Support Group coming up
] Learn more about Christy, facilitator of the Boundaries Support Group

Through the Valley of the Shadows

Through the Valley of the Shadows...

Shared with Marsha by Kristi, a Sister on this journey

I am comforted by the well-known words in Psalm 23. "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me . . ." It's interesting that the Psalmist calls it the valley of the "shadow" of death.

When I was a little girl, I remember how I would get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, and sometimes be scared of shadowy shapes I saw in my room and down the hallway. I used to see "elephants" in my closet, "snakes" on the floor (dirty socks!) and I once saw a "robber with a gun" in the hallway.

Each time I cried out my dad would come see what was wrong. As soon as he turned on the light, the scary shapes were gone and I saw them for what they were. The "robber in the hall with a gun" was a laundry basket I had played with and left turned upside down with a broom handle sticking out!

Yet even as he talks about the shadow of death, the Psalmist acknowledges that there is evil in the world when he uses the phrasel "fear no evil". On this journey through a broken world filled with sexual addiction, we know there is evil. We've come face to face with it; been knocked down by it; been hurt by it. My comfort and strength is in knowing that the Light--my Heavenly Father--exposes evil for what it is, and its power begins to pale and shrivel in the powerful presence of THE LIGHT. Just as my earthy father's presence turned a robbers with a gun into a laundry basket with a broom, so too my Heavenly Father's light and presence reveals that I pass through only shadows of death on my journey here because as his daughter, I have eternal life. I will never die!