Praise for WDWTP

Long recognized as a pioneer in helping women break free from pornography, Crystal Renaud Day takes her work to a new level in What Drives Women to Porn? By helping women understand the deeper why behind their behavior, she offers a compassionate and practical path toward lasting healing—not simply sobriety. Just as importantly, she shows women how to move beyond shame and secrecy by empowering them to take responsibility for their healing and gain new insights about themselves. This is an excellent resource for women seeking genuine healing.

—Dr. Eddie Capparucci, Author of Going Deeper: How the Inner Child Impacts Your Sexual Addiction

Many women struggling with pornography carry not only the behavior itself, but also confusion, shame, and unanswered questions about why the pattern keeps returning. In What Drives Women to Porn?, Crystal Renaud Day compassionately explores the emotional, relational, nervous-system, and spiritual forces beneath unwanted sexual behavior. Drawing from personal experience, clinical insight, and Christian faith, she very thoughtfully gives women language for their stories and offers a hopeful path from secrecy and shame toward connection, integration, and lasting healing.

—Mike Vaughn, LCMHC, CSAT, Executive Director, Bethesda Workshops

I have had the honor to work in the recovery space with Crystal for over a decade and her hard work, expertise, and heart for women really shines through in this book. Not only does she help answer the common question of why women can be drawn into pornography, she also provides practical, actionable steps for freedom, recovery, and healing. This is a beautiful roadmap for a woman in her journey from struggle through to living a healed and abundant life.

—Jessica (Harris) Cerula, author of Quenched: Discovering God’s Abundant Grace for Women Struggling with Pornography and Sexual Shame

Over fifteen years ago, Crystal Renaud Day provided women who struggled with pornography the gracious, much-needed reassurance, “You are not alone!” Today, she is adding to that gift by offering a deeper understanding of these struggles. Instead of “What’s the matter with me?”, which is the clarion cry that plagues most women who engage in unwanted sexual behavior, Crystal unpacks a much more important question: “What happened to you?” And even more crucial, she provides a clear answer—the SCARS plan for healing—that moves women beyond secrecy to freedom. Based in attachment theory and neuroscience, What Drives Women to Porn?, proves that there is, indeed, more to the story. Thank God! Every modern woman, pornography struggler or not, will benefit from this book.

—Marnie C. Ferree, LMFT, CSAT (retired), Author of No Stones: Women Redeemed from Sexual Addiction, Founder of Bethesda Workshops

Crystal Renaud Day masterfully exposes the crushing isolation women face in their hidden struggles with pornography. Weaving her raw personal story with the experiences of others, she reveals how unhealed trauma and dysregulated nervous systems keep us trapped in compulsive cycles. What Drives Women to Porn offers a clear, transformative roadmap to wholeness—an essential lifeline for anyone struggling in silence or walking alongside someone who is.

—Heidi Cooper, MAPC, PSAP, CMHC, Ordained Minister, Recovery Specialist at Covenant Eyes

As a talented author, empathetic counselor, and patient guide, Crystal Renaud Day has done it again! In “What Drives Women to Porn,” Crystal helps women uncover the roots of their struggle, grow in understanding, and blossom in wholeness. Bring your highlighter and journal to this reading, you will find “aha moments” and treasured truths in every chapter.

—Sam Black, Covenant Eyes Director of Recovery Education, C-SASI Christian Sex Addiction Specialist

For years, Crystal Renaud Day has gone where few were brave enough to go giving voice to women who were told their struggle didn’t even exist. In What Drives Women to Porn? she does something braver still: she moves past the shame and the slogans to ask the question almost no one was asking. This is not a book about trying harder or white-knuckling your way to sobriety. It is a compassionate, clear-eyed, and remarkably honest guide to the emotional, relational, and spiritual drivers beneath the behavior — and to the kind of healing that actually holds. Crystal writes with the authority of lived experience, the wisdom of hard-won clinical understanding, and the tenderness of a woman who has walked this road herself and refuses to let anyone walk it alone. Every woman who has ever whispered “me too” in the dark — and everyone who loves her — needs this book.

—Nate Larkin, Founder of The Samson Society

For nearly two decades, I’ve referred women struggling with pornography and sexual brokenness to my friend Crystal without hesitation, knowing they’d find compassionate care and real answers. Every time, they’ve come back grateful for her wisdom. This book distills what makes her the go-to expert in this deeply misunderstood field — she doesn’t just diagnose the problem, she offers women a genuine path to healing. If you or someone you love is caught in this struggle, this is the guide you want in your hands.

—Michael Leahy, Founder and Co-CEO of BraveHearts, author of Porn Nation

In the decade I’ve known Crystal and have followed her work, I’ve been impressed by her love for Jesus, but also for the women she serves. She truly desires God’s best for every woman. She is not interested in reaching crowds; she is interested in reaching the ones who need to know God loves them regardless of their past. 

—Phylicia Masenheimer, Founder of Every Woman a Theologian 

Crystal is a trailblazer and one of only a few women to give voice to women struggling with sexual addictions. Resources like What Drives Women to Porn? that she has developed have helped countless women to find freedom and recovery from sexual addictions and trauma. She is an expert… and beautifully and humbly shares personal experiences to present a stronger picture of what women face today.

—Dawn Hawkins, Founder & CEO at Protect Privacy AI  

What Drives Women to Porn? is a vital addition to the space of female sexuality and recovery. Crystal Renaud Day began writing on this topic before many of us realized it was happening, and now she brings new levels of depth and insight to help women find wholeness and freedom. Crystal’s work will take you deep into your own story, and back to your true God-given identity. Whether you are reading this for yourself, or for a woman you care deeply about, you will find the solid wisdom you need to take your next steps. Crystal walks with you like the caring friend who has been where you are, but also knows the pathway to a better tomorrow. 

—Nick Stumbo, Executive Director, Pure Desire Ministries

What Drives Women to Porn is one of the best books I’ve found for Christian women who need to know they are not alone, understand why they are driven to pornography, and find practical steps to experience lasting change. Crystal is genuine and real, using every ounce of her own pain, education, and determination to help other women find hope, healing, and the full life they were meant to live. As someone with my own story who has also spent years helping women heal from betrayal and sexual struggles, I highly recommend this book.

—Ashley Jameson, Education & Outreach Director, Pure Desire Ministries

Trying harder never works, at least not very well or for very long. And yet too often the Christian response to problematic sexual behaviors is just that – try harder. In What Drives Women to Porn? Crystal Renaud Day offers a welcome different paradigm. When Jesus interacted with those struggling with sexual issues (or anything else) He never sent them away to try harder; He was always addressing matters of the heart. And that’s what this book offers – a path to looking under the surface at the matters of the heart that drive you or those you care about to behaviors that only add to shame, and toward real healing that comes from change on the inside. This book offers a refreshing look at real problems real women face, and offers them real hope.”

—Carol Tanksley, M.D., D.Min., Founder, Dr. Carol Ministries, Author Sexpectations: Reframing Your Good and Not-So-Good Stories About God, Love, and Relationships