Michael De Smit, brings his powerful story of addiction, recovery, and healing to the conference.  At age ten, Michael was introduced to pornography.  What began as a method for coping with childhood trauma turned into a 35-year addiction.  Michael shares his decades-long journey with addiction and its impact on his life.  With vulnerability and openness, he explains the struggles and difficulties of his addiction.  Throughout the conference, Michael also communicates the message of hope, healing, and freedom as he describes how his life changed, and that he is now experiencing hope, healing, and freedom from his addiction.  Michael uses his book, The Hope, Freedom from Addiction, to share lessons learned on his recovery journey and encourages others that hope, healing, and freedom are possible.  Michael’s message that God is still redeeming and transforming broken people so they can live in hope, healing, and freedom will challenge and encourage participants throughout this interactive conference.