Mental Health

Mental Health

Do you need some compassion?

“Self, I forgive you.” These were precious words I learnt from a sweet lady who told me about her own practice of self-forgiveness. Every so often we come into need for compassion on ourselves....

Discipleship

“I promised God I would stop”: My struggle with sexual addiction

I discovered pornography when I was really young and because I didn’t know better then, it quickly developed into an almost daily habit of pornography and masturbation. It even came to a point...

Mental Health

I wanted to end it all: Ah Boys to Men actor Charlie Goh

I was down with dengue fever in 2016. It was a painful time as I was hospitalised for 7 days.  I was suffering, so I didn’t care and just took it out on everybody else. I can’t remember exactly...

Mental Health

Have you been crying?

I must confess something. I used to think that Jesus was very strange when I read that He wept upon seeing family and friends weeping over Lazarus’ death. You see, Jesus knew He was going to...

Mental Health

Anxious and depressed, I overdosed on drugs and fell unconscious for 2 days

I know the exact moment I was marked by Christ. It happened three years ago, when I was serving in disaster relief in Japan. God spoke 1 Corinthians 9:22 over my life – I am to be “all things...

Mental Health

I didn’t dare to let myself feel beautiful

All women desire to feel beautiful. Every day, we see hundreds of advertisements for skincare, make-up, clothes and slimming treatments. Even the Bible celebrates a woman’s beauty in passages such...

Real Life, Real People

Women hooked on porn: Not just a men’s problem

“That’s the day I gave up.” She had been waiting for someone to find out about her habit of watching pornography, so that she could get help. She just needed someone to ask her:...

Mental Health

Pwned by porn: This is how it messes with your mind

It only takes half a second for porn to reach our brain. In comparison, alcohol takes 6 minutes while heroin takes 10-20 seconds. These figures were shared at Set Free 2019, a national summit for...

Surveys & Reports

Singapore, we have a porn problem

“If you marry someone who watches pornography, you can kiss your intimacy goodbye. Because there’s not a woman in Singapore that can compete with porn.” This sobering statement was...