Talks that go beneath behavior
Keynotes and teaching for churches, conferences, treatment centers, universities, and men's events on recovery, shame, leadership, and faith after failure.
Explore speaking →Speaker · PSAP · Recovery Advocate
Creating cultures where honesty is possible.
Most churches know how to preach repentance. Few know how to build a place where telling the truth is actually safe. That is the work.
Former pastor · Pastoral Sex Addiction Professional · Certified Enneagram Guide · Host of the Loving Leverage Podcast
The Core Idea
Addiction is rarely the problem. It is usually a symptom.
Behavior is what we can see. It is almost never where the story starts. Real healing means going beneath the surface to the things that keep people stuck.
The behavior
what everyone reacts to
Shame
the belief that being known means being rejected
Attachment wounds
old injuries that shape how we connect
Loneliness
isolation that hides in plain sight, even on stage
Spiritual bypassing
using religious language to avoid the real work
Healing that lasts addresses what is underneath. That is where Drew works.
The Work
Three ways to bring this into your organization
Cultures where leaders don't hide
Staff health assessments, leadership retreats, and culture workshops that help churches become places where truth and grace coexist.
Explore consulting →Formation, not a party trick
Workshops and coaching that use the Enneagram for emotional maturity, team health, and leadership development. Certified guidance with real depth.
Explore Enneagram work →
The Story
He is not speaking from theory.
Drew spent more than twenty years in ministry before his own collapse forced him beneath the surface of his life. What he found there changed everything he believed about addiction, shame, identity, and grace.
Today he holds credentials as a Pastoral Sex Addiction Professional and walks in long term recovery. He helps others find what he found: honesty is not the end of the story. It is the beginning of a better one.
Read the full story →For Pastors
Carrying something no one knows about?
Drew is a Pastoral Sex Addiction Professional who understands process addiction in ministry from the inside. If you are a pastor who is stuck, there is a private way to start a conversation. No church contact. No forms that go to a staff. Just Drew.
Truth and grace can live in the same room. Most people have only ever been offered one at a time.
Drew Powell
As Seen on Prime Video
I Gotta Ask, with Annie F. Downs
Episode 104 · How does God talk to us?
In one of the most raw conversations of the season, Drew joins host Annie F. Downs, reality TV star Jason Wahler, and Remedy Counseling founder Christopher O'Reilly to talk about addiction, recovery, and learning to recognize God's voice in our darkest moments.
Streaming on Wonder Project, inside Prime Video.
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From addiction to connection.
The only thing greater than addiction is love. On the Loving Leverage Podcast, Drew sits down with thought leaders, betrayed partners, clinicians, and alumni to trace the moment in every story when love became the leverage that moved someone to get well.
Hear the podcast →Presented by Valiant Living
Clips
Latest from the feed
Podcast moments, teaching clips, and life at Valiant Living, updated as new clips post.
In Partnership
This work happens alongside Valiant Living.
Drew serves with Valiant Living, a nationally respected treatment program in Colorado that has been restoring men and their families since 2017. Valiant provides clinically driven care across the issues Drew speaks about most: process addiction, betrayal trauma, and family healing.
Treating the whole story
Clinical care for compulsive behavior that goes beneath symptoms to the intimacy disorders, trauma, and shame underneath.
Care for spouses and partners
Support for the people wounded by discovery, whose healing deserves its own path and its own advocates.
Restoration beyond the client
Programs that help whole families move from crisis to stability, because recovery that lasts rarely happens alone.