359 - Helping Next Gen Navigate Healthy Relationships w/ Barb Winters

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Trevor reveals a new women's podcast, Unfiltered, launching from Pure Desire Ministries.

The episode begins with host Trevor Windsor announcing a new women's podcast spinoff called Unfiltered with Ashley and Heather. He then introduces the main guest, Barb Winters, an author and founder of HopefulMom.net. Barb explains she is a pastor's wife, mother of four, and a sexual risk avoidance specialist. Her journey started when she discovered her 14-year-old son was watching pornography, leaving her feeling devastated and alone. This experience led her to create HopefulMom.net to support other parents. Barb discusses the prevalence of pornography and how it easily accesses children through curiosity, social media, and peer pressure. She highlights trends like sending nudes being normalized as a first step in teen relationships, which is illegal child sexual abuse material. The hosts and Barb explore how video games and online chats can be portals to explicit content and predators. Barb explains how pornography distorts expectations by teaching selfishness, violence, and unrealistic acts, becoming a primary source of sex education for teens. She emphasizes that children lack the frame of reference to discern what is healthy. Barb advises parents to create safe environments by remaining calm, avoiding shame, and practicing conversations. She shares that her son eventually confessed out of a desire to change, and they worked together with boundaries. The discussion shifts to proactive parenting, with Barb outlining the four habits for healthy relationships from her book: love, selflessness, mutuality, and communication. She stresses modeling these behaviors and having quantity time over quality time. The hosts encourage parents to be vulnerable and share their own stories appropriately. Barb directs listeners to her website for resources and free downloads. The episode concludes with a segment promoting the new Unfiltered podcast, where Ashley Jamison and Heather Coleman discuss their motivations, targeting women with biblical and clinical perspectives on sex and relationships.

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A compassionate, recovery-minded episode on helping children talk honestly while parents hold trust, boundaries, and hope.

Episode 359 sits with a difficult parenting moment: what to do when a child has been exposed to pornography. The conversation is anchored by a parent's two talks with a son, first after a threatening pop-up and later, at 16, when he wanted to step away from the behavior himself.

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You want to become the safe parent your child can approach when pornography enters the conversation.

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