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BIO
Reese Crane was born into a Christian household in the suburbs of Detroit, MI in the mid-1960s. Reese's father was a "home missionary" and "church planter" for the Southern Baptist Convention. His mother worked in the fine jewelry retail industry for many years. Reese was in the church as long as he can remember. Being heavily bullied during his elementary school years, Reese lived in intense fear on a daily basis. One day, around the age of 11, Reese was introduced to pornography magazines. This, and other sexual behaviors, would soon become Reese's means of escape from a very scary world. Over the ensuing years, with the advent of videocassettes, cable television, DVDs and the internet - which eventually would make porn free to the consumer - Reese found himself journeying deeper and deeper into a very dark and shame-filled world. Reese learned at a young age how to objectify women on the screen as well as in his relationships. While stationed in Germany in the Army in the 1980s, his world of hypersexual arousal exploded as Europe had and still has much less stringent requirements on pornography - as well as prostitution. In 2000, while Reese was married and a full-time worship leader at a rapidly growing church in the Harrisburg, PA area, he had a devastatingly public extramarital affair. He ended up walking away from his wife, his two children (with one in the womb) and his full time ministry. Reese always says that, "One would think that I hit rock bottom after that horrific experience. The truth is, I hit a very large ledge just inches from the bottom." It would take Reese another 10 years, actually becoming the deepest, darkest spiral to date into porn and sex, before he would actually break away from accessing pornography altogether in the Fall of 2011. Having an encounter with the Lord at age 46, after 35 years in the grip of this addiction, Reese walked away from porn for good and started on a long, arduous journey of healing and recovery. Now, as a sex addiction recovery coach, running men's intensives, Reese seeks to help others break free as well. Reese is fully aware of the emotional, mental and spiritual depravity that is sex addiction. He is also aware that it robbed him of over half his life causing him to hurt so many people while forfeiting so much precious time in his relationship with God the Father. Reese's heart is to reach into the church world (leadership and congregant) and help men break free from this addictive stronghold and live fully for Christ. Reese has seen God's faithfulness in restoration. He knows that same freedom awaits those struggling with this addiction if they will only ask. Most recently, Reese had the opportunity to travel to Italy and hold his F.E.E.L. Method Intensive for a mix of Italians, Brits and even Americans. What an amazing experience to see the work God started in him, flow out to a different country and continent altogether. |
Reese Crane is the founder and president of The Silent Addiction, a non-profit ministry focused on helping men rid themselves of unwanted sexual behaviors and guiding them back to their original God design. He is also the Director of Gateway to Freedom, for the Southeast and Eastern US. He has worked for nearly 15 years as a licensed pastoral counselor and coach, receiving his training from the International Institute of Christian Counseling in Sarasota FL. He also received additional clinical sex addiction training through the International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals. Most recently, Reese received certification in the Inner Child Recovery Process by Dr. Eddie Capparucci, a pioneer in the field of porn and sex addiction recovery. Reese leads two weekend intensives; Gateway to Freedom, in association with Be Broken, a porn and sex addiction ministry based out of San Antonio, TX as well as his own deep dive intensive, the F.E.E.L. Method dealing with hidden inner wounds. These intensives run throughout the year. At times they are offered as a joint intensive doing back to back work; helping to fully equip a man for his journey to healing and freedom. Reese’s style of helping those men who are struggling with their unwanted sexual behaviors is to reignite their true identity. Reese believes that men who have traded in their spiritual authority for sexual arousal need to understand why and also who they are (or who they can become) as children of the MOST HIGH GOD - PRINCES in the kingdom of God, and that it is the Father's good pleasure to restore Christ's authority to them and to give them His Kingdom. He does this in order for them to fulfill their God-given purpose for which they were created. Reese holds these weekend intensives in Orlando, FL, Titusville, FL as well as around the Central PA and the Northeast US.
Originally from the Central PA area, Reese Crane currently lives in Lakeland, FL with his wife, Wendy, who works as a legal assistant. She has also released her first novel, The Scandal of Virginia Grey, a fiction based upon her story as the "other woman" and Go's redemption. Reese and Wendy are the very proud parents of three amazing children. One is a high school English teacher, one, a recent communications graduate who works at a Christian radio station and the other has just finished her Master's in Psychology and is in her residency to become a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. |
"I don't see anywhere in scripture where you have to call yourself an addict for the rest of your life. Jesus did not come and die the most heinous of deaths (reserved for only the most hardened criminals) so that we could simply manage our addictions, but to set us free from them. (Galatians 5:1) However, you will most likely have to consider yourself a target for the rest of your life because the enemy knows your weakness and he doesn't like it when we leave his control. The difference between the addict and the target is how you stay vigilant. One keeps you vigilant out of fear, "I hope I don't do this again," and the other out of faith, "I don't have to do this again."
-Reese Crane - The F.E.E.L. Method
-Reese Crane - The F.E.E.L. Method
