Renewed Man Boot Camp

Helping Men Learn to Control and Focus Their Greatest Source of Energy and Power

"Sex, like all other forces available to man, should be understood, mastered, and made to serve man. The desire for sex expression is as natural as the desire for food. This desire can no more be killed than one can entirely stop a river from flowing. ... The person who has self-discipline understands the emotion of sex, respects it, and learns to control and transmute it into constructive activities."

- Napoleon Hill 1938 (author of "Think and Grow Rich")

Too many men allow their life and spiritual vitality to dissipate through uncontrolled sexual obsessions or activities. Rather than being the master of their sex drive, they are its slave. Their sexual desires lead them to:

• waste hours of valuable time and massive energy
• violate their moral and spiritual values
• damage relationships
• put their reputations, health, and sometimes even lives, at risk

Rather than controlling our sexual desires, and having our sexuality enhancing our lives; our sex drive now controls us, and diminishes our lives.

Today's world offers unprecedented distraction and arousal. The Internet, video, social media, and cell phone technologies give anyone access to sexual stimulation and gratification anywhere, anytime. These technologies -- and the big businesses and/or emotionally needy people who use them -- prey on our natural sexual drive, making available near-infinite amounts of variety and novelty. For millennia of human history, the natural limitations of in-person human interaction made the control of this drive difficult, but do-able. But now this desire is being hijacked by technologies that are causing many men to struggle.

And, in the ultimate irony, the explosion of artificial sex disrupts relationships as it becomes a substitute for real sex with real people. Rather than help bring us closer together, it tends to cause dissatisfaction and distraction in the relationships that men are trying to cultivate.

What is the Renewed Man Program?

The Renewed Man Boot Camp is a 12 week program that combines weekly video teaching, daily emails, small group interaction, and live expert coaching for men wanting support to stay healthy, spiritually connected, in a world of 24/7 sexual provocation.

What are the Unique Features of This Program?

- It is faith-based, and includes teaching from Scriptures. I'm a pastor of a Christian church, and everything I do is focused on and informed by this faith

- It is informed by, and contains insights from the latest research in addiction, neurochemistry, and neurobiology

- It is informed by, and includes insights from, other ancient wisdom traditions and philosophy (which have interesting and helpful insights for us Christians about controlling and refocusing our sex drive)

- It understands and treats our sexual struggles as part of a multi-faceted whole-life equation. It's built around 12 keys that need to be in place for someone to gain and maintain control over potentially addictive or compulsive behaviors.

- It deals with the challenges and struggles men have in their intimacy with their spouses

- It has a special focus on helping men learn to redirect, or channel, the energy/obsession with sex onto other activities that will improve their lives

- Even though it's focused on dealing with sexual struggles, the program will deal with improving yourself as a man at many levels

- This program is based on the idea of making some kind of daily commitment, intention, or small action step that keeps our commitment to sexual purity/health/recovery in our minds

What You Will Get

• Weekly teaching about each of the 12 keys to harnessing your sex drive
• Daily email with short teaching and action step, as a reminder
• Small-group accountability and support (every other week). This could be face to face, or over zoom.
• Live coaching with Mark Brouwer (every other week) This would happen over zoom.

Who is This For?

• Men who want help and support to be the best man they can be
• Men who recognize the challenge of maintaining healthy boundaries around today's digital temptations
• Men who understand themselves to be addicted to pornography, or other compulsive sexual behaviors
• Men who may not see themselves as addicted, but recognize there is a problem, or potential problem, lurking there
• Men who are willing to talk about this area of their lives -- in a safe and supportive environment
• Men who will take this seriously and do the work
• Men who would be willing -- if they find this program helpful for their own lives -- to share it with others and help other men through it in the future

This program aims to RENEW the life, strength, and vitality of men by helping them overcome the distraction and enslavement that many of them are experiencing with sexual habits like porn use, social media and internet trolling for erotic material. It will also help them find ways of strengthening the relationships they are in. Even though the central focus is on dealing with our sexual desires, this is a broad-focused program, as there are many dimensions that will be covered.

Limited Number of Spaces Available in Pilot Program

There will be a cost for this program, but I'm not sure what that cost will be yet. I suspect it will be cheaper in the pilot group than when I do the full launch in the Fall. Spaces will be limited by what I'm able to accommodate in coaching groups.

When Will It Start?

The program will start on Monday, April 25.

How Do I Join? What's the Next Step?

If you want to be put on the list to get more information, just respond to this email and indicate your interest. I will collect the names and addresses, and be in touch with you further.