Have you ever felt like you were standing on the ledge of a building about 50 stories tall?
Have you ever felt like you’re about to fall off the ledge?
Have you ever felt like you might jump?
Sometimes life feels overwhelming.
Sometimes we get flooded.
Sometimes we’re overwhelmed.
Sometimes our emotions charge in to seize us and make us feel horrible feelings we don’t want to feel.
Sometimes we don’t know what to do.
What do we do when we don’t know what to do?
In this episode Tony shares a recent story from his life when he became lost to himself, and got so upset he was almost beside himself.
How do we reel ourselves back in when we’ve become lost to ourself?
How do we get our legs back under us when we feel like we’ve been chopped down?
In this episode Tony talks about what it means to “talk yourself off the ledge” when life seems overwhelming and unmanageable.
It’s at these times that we can be in great danger of acting our in our sexual compulsion and sexual addiction.
It’s at these times we can be tempted to self-medicate, to anesthetize, and to escape by using our sexual gift in an unhealthy way.
You no longer have to be the man you used to be, because you can learn to “talk yourself off the ledge”.
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30