CHRISTIAN PORN RECOVERY & MARRIAGE REPAIR
Standing Strong Project
helps Christians break free from pornography and rebuild marriages after betrayal
Standing Strong
You may be a Christian seeking freedom from pornography addiction, feeling weak and discouraged. You may be a husband looking at the trauma your choices have caused your betrayed wife. Or you may be a couple wondering if your marriage can heal.
friend,
hope is never lost if you don’t quit. Not because God will magically fix your problems, but because He meets people with grace and truth to give them courage to fight. And because you only lose the battle when you don’t get back up.
Standing Strong doesn’t mean that you always do the right thing. Standing Strong means that even when you don’t, you know how to get out of the ditch, and you know that God names what is yet to be.
Welcome, warrior. Get ready to stand strong.
Resources
Choose a resource from the path that fits your need.
CHRISTIAN PORN RECOVERY
CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE REPAIR
A Deeper Kind of Recovery
Standing Strong Project is built on the conviction that real healing needs to include the whole person. Because science consistently shows that addiction recovery is much more effective if it includes:
neurobiology
emotional life
sense of identity
spiritual life
The same is true for healing a marriage after betrayal.
This is why every recovery and healing journey in Standing Strong Project involves body, soul, and spirit to cover all layers of healing.
You don’t win the long game by simply learning to do or say the right things. The real battle is fought and won beneath the surface.
Meet the Founder
hi friend,
I’m Anita, the founder of Standing Strong Project.
I’m a theologian, a certified Pastoral Sex Addiction and Multiple Addiction Professional, and trained as a Betrayal Trauma Religious Leader.
I created Standing Strong Project to help Christians facing pornography and sex addiction as well as those rebuilding their marriage after sexual betrayal.
Here, biblical truth, recovery wisdom, trauma-informed understanding, and practical tools come together to support a deeper kind of healing.
FAQ
Common Questions
Who is Standing Strong Project for?
Standing Strong Project is for Christians who want to face pornography addiction and the damage of betrayal.
Some resources are created for men and women seeking freedom from pornography or sex addiction. Others are created for husbands who have hurt their wife through sexual betrayal and want to begin rebuilding safety and trust.
While betrayal deeply affects the wounded spouse, Standing Strong Project primarily focuses on the person seeking freedom and rebuilding integrity and relational safety.
If you are looking for a biblically rooted, trauma-informed, and emotionally honest approach to recovery and lasting change, Standing Strong Project was created to help you take the next faithful step.
Is Standing Strong Project faith-based?
Yes. Standing Strong Project is created for Christians and is built on a biblical understanding of sin, grace, truth, marriage, and sexuality.
Faith is not treated as a side note or a motivational add-on. It’s part of the foundation. The resources are designed to help you bring your struggle into the light before God, receive his grace without minimizing what needs to change, and grow in integrity and strength.
At the same time, Standing Strong Project takes recovery science, emotional health, trauma, neurobiology, and practical tools seriously, because lasting change involves the whole person: body, soul, and spirit.
Is this therapy or counseling?
No. Standing Strong Project offers programs, guidance, and practical resources from a Christian perspective to help Christians overcome porn addiction and rebuild their marriage. It is not therapy, counseling, or a substitute for health care.
The resources include trauma-informed perspectives, recovery tools, spiritual reflection, and emotional growth exercises, but they are not meant to diagnose or treat.
If you are in acute crisis, danger, or dealing with severe trauma symptoms, please seek professional help in your area.
What makes Christian recovery from sexual addiction different?
Christian recovery begins with a different view of the person and a different vision for freedom.
First, the person is viewed as a whole being of body, soul, and spirit. Therefore, Christianity will never treat addiction as mainly a brain-based compulsion that primarily requires behavior modification.
Second, biblical freedom is not merely the ability to stop doing what harms you. Freedom is the restoration of your ability to belong fully to God, live in truth, love with integrity, and no longer be ruled by sin, shame, lust, fear, or secrecy.
That is why Standing Strong Project brings together biblical truth, recovery science, and emotional work. The goal is not only changed behavior, but a stronger and freer life before God, within yourself, and toward your spouse.
Do I need to be sober before I start working on trust repair?
You don’t need a long record of sobriety before you begin rebuilding trust. But you do need to understand this clearly: trust cannot be rebuilt on top of ongoing secrecy, deception, or sexual acting out.
If you are still actively using pornography, recovery needs to be your primary focus. Your wife needs to see real responsibility and a serious commitment to becoming sexually sober.
At the same time, repair doesn’t wait until you are “finished” with recovery. How you respond to your wife’s pain matters from the beginning.
So the answer is: you don’t need to be fully recovered before you work on marriage repair. But you cannot rebuild trust while protecting the patterns that broke it.
If you need to start your recovery, start with the Breaking Free guide.
Are your resources for both men and women?
The freedom resources are created for Christian men and women who want to break free from pornography or sex addiction and grow in sexual integrity.
The trust repair resources are written for Christian husbands who have hurt their wife through sexual betrayal and want to understand the damage, take responsibility, and begin rebuilding safety and trust.
Standing Strong Project is not only for men, and the resource library will continue to grow over time.
What makes Standing Strong Project different?
- Standing Strong Project is unapologetically Christian. The resources are compatible with a biblical view of sin, grace, truth, responsibility, sexuality, and marriage.
- The content is not simply created by a business maker, a blogger, or even a good teacher. All content is created on the basis of specialized training in sexual addiction, betrayal trauma, theology, and pastoral care.
- Standing Strong Project takes both sexual addiction and the damage of betrayal seriously. The resources are designed to work with the whole person: body, soul, spirit, identity, emotional life, sexuality, and relationships. Therefore, the goal isn’t simply to stop destructive behavior, but to build a life of integrity, emotional strength, sexual wholeness, and trustworthy love.
What does “standing strong” actually mean?
Standing Strong Project began with a desire to help shape deeply rooted Christians who are free from addiction and strong marriages that can stand when storms rage.
To stand strong doesn’t mean that you never fail or face pain. It means that when you do, you keep getting back up and fight the battle until you win.
For a Christian fighting porn addiction, it means getting out from underneath the shame of failed attemps, insisting on growing in sexual integrity and emotional strength until you no longer need the escape route of pornography.
For a Christian husband rebuilding his marriage, it means becoming honest and responsible at the cost of comfort, not giving up because the work is hard. It means learning to be consistent as a means of rebuilding trust.
Standing Strong became the umbrella for everything I long to see in Christians: strength in Christ, resilience in life’s storms, freedom from what keeps them bound, and marriages built on the strong foundation of grace and truth.
