Porn Free Radio, Episode 35, Rethinking 12 Step with Craig Para from The Mindful Habit.

Welcome to Porn Free Radio.

This is the podcast where motivated guys who want to quit looking at porn, get hope, and take action.

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.

Now here's your host, recovered porn addict and podcaster Matt Dobschutes.

Hello again and welcome to Porn Free Radio.

This is the podcast for guys who want to live 100% porn free.

In this episode, I'm excited to be joined again by Craig Pera of the Mindful Habit.

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, especially in regards to overcoming sex addiction. Now, before we get to that, I want to

talk to you about the mindful habit system to end porn and sex addiction. Now, Craig's the founder of this system. It's an online

program that once you learn, you can use for the rest of your life. Now, it's based in three phases.

There's awareness, accountability, and action. The awareness phase is creating an acute awareness

of unmet needs in our life that are driving us towards

the porn, towards the sex addiction, towards the compulsive sexual behaviors. And as we start to

get aware of what those things are, it leads us into the next phase, accountability, metrics-driven

accountability, where we set up metrics in our

life to measure how we're doing and to start measuring improvement, setting goals. And finally,

action, taking action in the moment, both with temptation, but also doing something to take care of ourselves,

to create self-care plans, to create goals for where we want to go in life.

Now, Craig's created a whole bunch of tools, some he's learned in his own sex addiction recovery,

and some he's picked up along the way, and he does weekly calls with his guys. It's a

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