{"id":5571,"date":"2012-12-31T08:53:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T14:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dirtygirlsministries.com\/blog\/?p=5571"},"modified":"2012-12-31T01:09:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T07:09:34","slug":"the-best-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=5571","title":{"rendered":"The Best of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Take a moment to check out our most popular blog posts of 2012&#8230; and let us know what you would like to read here in 2013. As part of our newly launched <a href=\"http:\/\/wholewomenministries.com\" target=\"_blank\">WHOLE Women Ministries<\/a>, we are redesigning this space to become a place for women writers to share on a variety of women&#8217;s issues. If you would like to contribute a piece, <a href=\"http:\/\/dirtygirlsministries.com\/?page_id=68\" target=\"_blank\">contact us<\/a>! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And HAPPY NEW YEAR&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Fifty Shades: Not Your Mother\u2019s Romance Novel\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/dirtygirlsministries.com\/blog\/?p=5295\">Fifty Shades: Not Your Mother\u2019s Romance Novel<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><em>\u201cIt\u2019s not a shirtless man with a big busted woman on the cover anymore. And it\u2019s not a woman being seduced by the stable boy in the barn.\u00a0From what I\u2019ve researched about this series of books, the main sexual themes throughout are BDSM (bondage\/discipline\/sadism\/masochism), control, violence, damage from childhood abuse, etc.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/dirtygirlsministries.com\/?page_id=21\">r<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/dirtygirlsministries.com\/?page_id=21\" target=\"_blank\">ead more<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"What if We\u2019re Single on Purpose?\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/dirtygirlsministries.com\/blog\/?p=5529\">What if We\u2019re Single on Purpose?<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><em>So we almost develop this kind of complex that we\u2019re just not\u00a0complete until we\u2019re married. That life really doesn\u2019t begin until after marriage. That we don\u2019t really count until we\u2019re married.\u00a0That we just don\u2019t\u2026 measure\u2026 up. <a href=\"http:\/\/dirtygirlsministries.com\/blog\/?p=5529\" target=\"_blank\">\u2014read more<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"WHOLE: from Same-Sex Attraction\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/dirtygirlsministries.com\/blog\/?p=5406\">WHOLE: from Same-Sex Attraction<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><em>For years, my conscience was tormented and torn between disapproving God and embracing my homosexual identity. I felt I had only two choices. I could live a double life and repress my true feelings for same sex attractions and pretend to be a heterosexual, or live openly, honestly as a lesbian and take the chance of condemnation. \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/dirtygirlsministries.com\/blog\/?p=5406\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Why Your Donation Matters: When Porn Gets Personal\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/dirtygirlsministries.com\/blog\/?p=5347\">When Porn Gets Personal<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><em>It all seemed so sudden. So hasty. Many replied to her announcement. Encouraging her to make a better choice. Some even offering to come get her. But as the week progressed, much of her story wasn\u2019t quite lining up and our team began to do some research. \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/dirtygirlsministries.com\/blog\/?p=5347\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Breaking Free: Sundi Jo\u2019s Story\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/dirtygirlsministries.com\/blog\/?p=5395\">Breaking Free: Sundi Jo\u2019s Story<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><em>I picked up the church laptop and within seconds my eyes were fixated on the familiar images that had comforted me thousands of times before. God quickly snapped me back into reality. I picked up the laptop and threw it across the room. I had reached a new low in my depression. \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/dirtygirlsministries.com\/blog\/?p=5395\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Fifty Shades: Not Your Mother\u2019s Romance Novel\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/dirtygirlsministries.com\/blog\/?p=5295\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a moment to check out our most popular blog posts of 2012&#8230; and let us know what you would like to read here in 2013. As part of our newly launched WHOLE Women Ministries, we are redesigning this space to become a place for women writers to share on a variety of women&#8217;s issues.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=5571\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Best of 2012<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,6,187,193,183,27,47,48,194,212,221,182,205,179,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-201","category-addiction","category-adultery","category-community","category-crystal-renaud","category-dirty-girls","category-porn","category-prayer","category-responsibilty","category-same-sex-attraction","category-teen-girls","category-testimonials","category-whole","category-wives","category-women","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5571"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5583,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions\/5583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}