This episode of Unashamed Unafraid introduces guests Mike (“Sacramento Mike”) and his son Weston, with Mike visiting Utah from Hawaii for his daughter’s wedding. Mike describes growing up in an LDS family near Sacramento, first encountering pornography at 11, becoming compulsively drawn to it, and being forcibly sexually assaulted by older boys around age 13–14, which deepened his shame and porn use; he later learned those boys were arrested for raping family members. At 18, after drug use, he prayed on a beach, quit drugs, served a mission in Ecuador, married, and raised a family while hiding a long-term pornography problem that escalated alongside law-enforcement work in Oakland and PTSD. After multiple deaths in his care and suicidal crises, he sought help, was retired from duty, and recounts a 2018 moment when his wife, prompted by God, prevented a planned suicide, helping him recognize God’s love. Mike has now been sober from pornography and sexual acting out for 8 years.
Timestamps: 01:28 Wedding Weekend Banter 03:02 First Exposure To Porn 05:25 Sexual Assault And Confusion 07:14 Shame And Silence 08:43 Beach Prayer Wake Up 11:32 Mission And Marriage 13:51 Law Enforcement And Trauma 15:22 Confessing and Hiding Secrets 16:30 PTSD and Relapse Cycle 18:14 Family Distance and Regrets 21:07 Deaths on the Job 23:24 Retired and Identity Crisis 25:22 Therapy and Escalation 26:10 2018 Suicide Crisis 27:31 Gods Love and Closing 28:25 The Dream 32:59 Weston's thoughts on dad's recovery 39:11 Life After Disclosure 41:34 Warrior Heart Boot Camp 49:15 Helping Other Men 54:19 Gratitude by Brandon Lake
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