035 - Rethinking 12 Step With Craig Perra From The Mindful Habit (Updated)
Porn Free Radio
Matt Dobschuetz
4.8 • 677 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Craig Perra, founder of The Mindful Habit, returns for a powerful conversation about 12 Step groups and the disease model for treating addiction. Together, we discuss some of the pros and cons of 12 step groups and the alternatives.
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| 0:00.0 | Porn Free Radio, Episode 35, Rethinking 12 Step with Craig Para from The Mindful Habit. |
| 0:10.3 | Welcome to Porn Free Radio. |
| 0:12.8 | This is the podcast where motivated guys who want to quit looking at porn, get hope, and take |
| 0:18.2 | action. |
| 0:19.5 | Even if you feel lost right now or out of control, you can recover and live a meaningful life, free from shame and full of love. |
| 0:28.1 | Now here's your host, recovered porn addict and podcaster Matt Dobschutz. |
| 0:34.1 | Hello again and welcome to Porn Free Radio. |
| 0:37.5 | This is the podcast for guys who want to live 100% porn free. |
| 0:42.3 | In this episode, I'm excited to be joined again by Craig Pair of The Mindful Habit. |
| 0:48.2 | Now, Craig joined us in episode 16 and 17 last year, and today we're having a conversation where we're rethinking 12-step groups, |
| 0:58.3 | especially in regards to overcoming sex addiction. Now, before we get to that, I want to talk to you |
| 1:06.0 | about the mindful habit system to end porn and sex addiction. Now, Craig's the founder of this system. |
| 1:12.7 | It's an online program that once you learn, you can use for the rest of your life. Now, it's based |
| 1:18.3 | in three phases. There's awareness, accountability, and action. The awareness phase is creating |
| 1:24.5 | an acute awareness of unmet needs in our life that are driving us towards |
| 1:29.0 | the porn, towards the sex addiction, towards the compulsive sexual behaviors. And as we start |
| 1:35.9 | to get aware of what those things are, it leads us into the next phase, accountability, |
| 1:42.1 | metrics-driven accountability, where we set up metrics in our life |
| 1:47.6 | to measure how we're doing and to start measuring improvement, setting goals. And finally, |
| 1:55.3 | action, taking action in the moment, both with temptation, but also doing something to take care of ourselves, |
| 2:03.3 | to create self-care plans, to create goals for where we want to go in life. |
| 2:08.5 | Now, Craig's created a whole bunch of tools, some he's learned in his own sex addiction recovery, |
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