New Life Live With Steve Arterburn

Caller Questions: Is there professional help for those who are struggling with screen addiction? It’s part of my job, so I’m looking at screens all the time.  How can I feel safe in a new community when the opposite has been my experience? I was abused by my father, and he has been in the […]

Caller Questions: Things I did years ago and confessed to God keep coming up; how do I bury them and get them out of my head?  My family is split because my niece said my son inappropriately touched her, but he says he didn’t. How do I go on with the hurt?  Our new pastor […]

Caller Questions: What can I do if my adult son wants nothing to do with me? He stopped calling after his father died, and I got remarried.  I’m 56yo with OCD and get up at night to check on things; how do I get help for myself?  Have you heard about the Highly Sensitive Person? […]

Caller Questions: My 25yo schizophrenic nephew was beaten up and bullied as a child, and then he tried to kill himself. How can I help him?  I caught my husband looking at child porn several times and he is a deacon in church; what should I do?’  My daughter just had a baby and stopped […]

Caller Questions: My brother-in-law will be at my son’s birthday party, and we have had a lot of problems with him. What is your advice?  My husband doesn’t want to deal with me and just leaves me at home.  I’ve listened for 29yrs, and I wanted to thank you for sending me a Restoration Bible!  […]

Caller Questions: What should I do if my 14yo daughter wants to invite over her new friends for a sleepover, and many of them are bisexual and transgender?  I’m back with my ex-husband and learned that he has shoved down his 13yo trauma of his brother being crushed to death by a tractor; what do […]

Caller Questions: My father died when I was 4yo and my brother when I was 11yo. Since we weren’t allowed to talk about it, how do I move out of sadness?  A couple tried to help me after my husband died, but the husband ended up asking me out. Do I tell his wife?  How […]

Caller Questions: What can I do to help my 20yo daughter who lives at home, smokes, sees boys, and starves herself because she thinks she’s fat?  My pastor called me delusional and banned me from our church grounds because I confronted him with the truth.  We married 3yrs ago and just separated because my husband […]

Caller Questions: My sister’s 41yo son had a brain tumor at 4yo and struggles with pedophilia thoughts. What advice can I give to them?  My 18yo son from a previous marriage has joined me and my husband, and I get defensive to protect my son; how do I do my best to not get defensive? 

Caller Questions: You told me to write a letter to my adult daughter who doesn’t want any contact. What if she doesn’t respond?  Is the book Intimate Deception appropriate for men who were betrayed? My ex-wife dated a guy for a year and then left me.  What can I do if my husband isn’t on […]

Caller Questions: Interview with Sam Hodges, president of Church Initiative, to talk about DivorceCare and GriefShare. What should I do if my husband had an affair 17yrs ago and I just caught him looking at porn?  Thank you for the scholarship to Emotional Freedom; it was great! My sister is in a gay relationship and […]

Caller Questions: My husband can’t take raising our teen grandson, but it would be unsafe to return him to his mother. How can I help my husband?  Will a workshop help me overcome my drug, alcohol, and porn addictions?  What action can I take with a verbally abusive husband and a 13yo son who mimics […]

Caller Questions: I cheated on the woman I was dating, and it devastated her; how do I move on?  How do I respond to my 20yo daughter? She lives with me and I don’t like her cuddling under the covers with her 23yo boyfriend who is getting a divorce.  I turned my back on the […]

Caller Questions: My betrayal happened a long time ago, and your recent Restore Workshop helped me to feel again!  Is there something broken in me for trying to help a woman who struggles with borderline and keeps cutting me off?  After dating a lot of dysfunctional men, I’m dating a guy who bores me; is […]

Caller Questions: As a Christian, is it OK for me not to speak to my 93yo dad? He is controlling and tried to call the police on us for taking my mom with dementia to the hospital.  My adult daughter won’t contact me and says my grandson regresses to a childlike state when he talks […]

Caller Questions: Am I doing the right thing in asking my angry husband for a divorce? He is verbally abusive and hasn’t changed.  My 18yo son told me he wasn’t afraid to die and then died three days later; did he have a premonition of his death?  A Scripture keeps coming to my mind about […]

Caller Questions: I’m on disability for schizophrenia and came across a job where I’d get paid for gas mileage, but I’m troubled due to wars over oil.  Should I lead a men’s group with my panic attacks and ADD? How do you know if something is God’s will?  Is it better to save the marriage […]

Caller Questions: We went to Intimacy in Marriage this month on a scholarship; being able to do the Comfort Circle in front of everyone really touched my heart.  Despite my sister treating me badly, my 12yo nephew looks up to me. When is it okay to tell him all of the negative things about his […]

Caller Questions: What is love? I had an affair because I didn’t get the affection I needed from my wife.  My daughter-in-law isolates our grandchildren from us; how do we break through her control?  Do you recommend I get a family negotiator? One son copied my other son’s business to the point of plagiarizing him […]

Caller Questions: I’ve been an addict since I was 13yo and am about to turn 61yo; how do I get help?  I got my close alcoholic friend a couple of jobs, but he lost them because of drinking. After my tough love to not call until he gets treatment, what should my next step be?  […]