014 Seven Things To Know When Starting a Support Group for Porn Addicts

Porn Free Radio

Matt Dobschuetz

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 672 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2014

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

As you start to look around in your own journey and recovery, you start seeing others who are a little farther behind who are making the same mistakes you did. And you start getting a vision for helping them. Here's 7 tips for starting your group.

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0:00.0	Porn Free Radio, episode 14.
0:04.4	Welcome to Porn Free Radio. I'm Matt Dobshutes.
0:07.6	Porn Free Radio is the podcast for people who want to get free from porn addiction.
0:12.7	In this episode, we're talking about seven things you need to know when starting a support group for porn addicts.
0:21.6	Those people.
0:25.1	Those people.
0:27.8	Sometimes people use this phrase when they're trying to compliment me.
0:31.9	They say it in a sentence like this.
0:34.6	It's so great that you're helping those people. And it's sometimes people will say that at church.
0:45.2	And it's, they're trying to compliment me because they think that having a porn related podcast or
0:54.0	having a church support group related to sexual issues is kind of a noble thing.
1:03.3	And they see the people who would go to that as not people like themselves.
1:10.3	And there might be a little bit of condescension in it.
1:13.3	There could be a little bit of shame.
1:15.3	I'm not quite sure what they always mean by it.
1:19.1	But what they don't realize is when they refer to those people, they're referring to me.
1:25.6	That I didn't get into this because of some mother Teresa-like noble mission to help those who struggle with pornography and masturbation.
1:38.3	I got into this because I struggled with pornography and masturbation.
1:43.7	I got into this because of my own journey.
1:48.7	And I help others because it helps me continue to walk out the journey. And so when they talk
1:56.4	about those people, they don't realize that they're speaking directly to one of those people.
2:03.4	And I know you guys probably know what that feels like when people say stuff like that.
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