Every Man’s Battle Podcast

Bonus Episode: Learning to have Intimate Conversations

In this bonus episode with a special offer, JJ West and Doug Barnes provide your next step for breaking through recurring arguments that lead nowhere. Identifying and repairing your injured communication style, slowing the conversation down, and feeling your emotions are methods taught at the Intimacy in Marriage workshop that lead to the authentic, healing, and intimate conversations that foster connection. Have a topic you would like to hear? Email us at EMBPodcast@newlife.com and let us know. Use discount code EMBPOD to save $100 when you register for the Every Man's Battle Intensive. Learn more about integrity here.

Ways to Evaluate Your Recovery - Part 2

These Summer messages are re-broadcasts from our most popular, relevant, and helpful messages that are worth listening to again to stay focused and strong over the Summer as you continue fighting Every Man’s Battle.JJ West and Doug Barnes continue their discussion on measuring recovery success. The conversation underscores the integration of inner work with outward behaviors for effective recovery, advocating for a balanced approach that includes both tangible actions and intangible character development. They emphasize the importance of time, believable trust-building behaviors, and the sanctification of one's character. They highlight the necessity of understanding emotions, managing wounds, and handling triggers, stressing the need for self-awareness, emotional regulation, and addressing past wounds.Have a topic you would like to hear? Email us at EMBPodcast@newlife.com and let us know. Use discount code EMBPOD to save $100 when you register for the Every Man's Battle Intensive. Learn more about integrity here.

Ways to Evaluate Your Recovery - Part 1

These Summer messages are re-broadcasts from our most popular, relevant, and helpful messages that are worth listening to again to stay focused and strong over the Summer as you continue fighting Every Man’s Battle.JJ West and Doug Barnes discuss ways of measuring success when in recovery for sexual integrity issues. They emphasize the importance of balancing tangible actions like step work, therapy, and accountability with intangible heart changes. They caution against viewing recovery as a task list and stress the need for practical application and collaboration with a support team, underscoring the value of one-on-one accountability and the importance of inviting others into one's recovery journey.Have a topic you would like to hear? Email us at EMBPodcast@newlife.com and let us know. Use discount code EMBPOD to save $100 when you register for the Every Man's Battle Intensive. Learn more about integrity here.

Telling Your Friends and Families

These Summer messages are re-broadcasts from our most popular, relevant, and helpful messages that are worth listening to again to stay focused and strong over the Summer as you continue fighting Every Man’s Battle.Men who are acting out often think the worst thing possible would be for others to find out. J.J. West and Doug Barnes discuss why that is actually the best thing that could happen. They address the fears that keep men stuck from revealing their true selves and how it perpetuates the cycle of acting out. They explain how freedom comes from sharing your story and being fully known and accepted.Have a topic you would like to hear? Email us at EMBPodcast@newlife.com and let us know. Use discount code EMBPOD to save $100 when you register for the Every Man's Battle Intensive. Learn more about integrity here.

Don't Give Up When You Struggle - Part 2

These Summer messages are re-broadcasts from our most popular, relevant, and helpful messages that are worth listening to again to stay focused and strong over the Summer as you continue fighting Every Man’s Battle.J.J. West and Doug Barnes continue the discussion on why it’s important to continue fighting for your sexual integrity, even when you are struggling, with the reminder that recovery is a process and not an outcome. Breaking free from outcome related thinking helps address acting in behaviors and keeps you in the fight so your legacy can be of a man who, with God’s help, changed things for himself and those around him.Have a topic you would like to hear? Email us at EMBPodcast@newlife.com and let us know. Use discount code EMBPOD to save $100 when you register for the Every Man's Battle Intensive. Learn more about integrity here.