Breaking the Silence: Women and Pornography Addiction with Crystal Renaud Day - Part 2Breaking the Silence: Women and Pornography Addiction with Crystal Renaud Day - Part 2
Crossroads with Jenny Bushkell
Jenny Bushkell and Crystal Renaud Day talk openly about women’s pornography and sexual addiction, focusing on shame, church culture, and practical steps to healing. Crystal shares her story and introduces the SCARS recovery model as a framework for Christ-centred support and change.
24:44•7 Oct 2026
Breaking the Silence on Women, Porn and Shame with Crystal Renaud Day
Episode Overview
- Women can and do struggle with pornography and sexual addiction, and they are not alone in that experience.
- Honest confession to a safe person is a crucial step toward breaking secrecy and starting recovery.
- Counselling helps address the deeper emotional drivers beneath sexual behaviours, not just the behaviour itself.
- The SCARS model (Surrender, Confession, Accountability, Responsibility, Sharing) offers a clear structure for ongoing healing.
- Churches are urged to talk about sexuality with less shame and to offer or connect people to practical support resources.
“Shame does not have to have the final word.”
What drives someone to seek a life without secret sexual struggles and hidden shame? This candid episode of *Crossroads with Jenny Bushkell* centres on women facing pornography and sexual addiction, and what healing can honestly look like. Jenny talks with guest Crystal Renaud Day, who grew up with emotional neglect, a travelling father, and a mum battling complex PTSD.
Crystal explains how these early wounds fed into years of hidden behaviours and a secret porn addiction, even while she was the "good Christian girl" doing all the right things on the outside.
As she puts it, "I was an adult making adult choices, and so I have to take responsibility, not for what happened to me, but responsibility for my own healing." You’ll hear how one young woman’s courage to share her own porn struggle became the turning point Crystal had been praying for. That honest conversation opened the door to accountability, counselling and eventually her calling to support other women so they know they’re not the only ones.
Crystal is now the CEO and founder of Living on Purpose and She Recovery, and the author of *What Drives Women to Porn? Why Women Struggle Sexually and How to Heal*. The episode also tackles the church’s silence around sexuality, the need for female-focused support and why safe spaces are essential. Crystal introduces her SCARS model—Surrender, Confession, Accountability, Responsibility and Sharing—showing how each step helps women move from secrecy into community and grace.
Whether you’re a woman quietly battling porn, a husband wondering how to respond, or someone who wants to start a group for women, you’ll find practical language, spiritual encouragement and real-world ideas for support. Jenny closes with a reminder that "shame does not have to have the final word" and that "healing begins with understanding your story." Maybe the next brave step is simply asking: who’s the safe person you could talk to today?
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