Porn Free Radio Episode 26. Hey, this is Matt Dobshootschutes, and this will be a short version of porn free

radio. I'm so excited that you join me today. It's been kind of a busy season for me, just

running a group on Monday nights, and then also keeping up with the podcast. And, but it's been a

great season and I've enjoyed working offline with guys and I'm enjoying working online with

you. I'm looking really forward to the next year, 2015, I think, is going to be a big year for us.

And I'm just looking forward to making more episodes and also creating some new things to help you in your journey to being porn free.

You know, one thing came up this week that I wanted to talk about.

And it affects us when we're going porn free.

And when we first start thinking about getting rid of porn, we focus a lot on,

we focus a lot on porn. We focus on the acting out, the computer. You know, we might want to put a

filter on our, on our computer, or we might want to set up an accountability relationship. And we, we focus a lot

on the sort of external, the external things that are tied in with the addiction. And,

and it's a little harder for us to become self-aware and go a little deeper

and a little below the surface. And one thing that comes up again and again and again with me

that came up with me when I was getting help and what I see in some of the guys in the group that I've

been working with is the idea of shame. That shame plays such a big role in keeping us in the

pattern of pornography addiction. Now, the word shame evokes, I don't know if it evokes or invokes.

I'm not sure which one it is.

It evokes a certain reaction in people.

A lot of times when they hear it,

especially in regards to pornography addiction,

and I've seen this on Reddit,

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