108. Pink Elephant and Intrusive Thoughts
Overcome Pornography for Good
Sara Brewer
5 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Tune in this week for a simple exercise that will help you understand what’s going on in your brain when you have intrusive thoughts on a deeper level. I’m sharing why trying to stop, avoid, or question your intrusive thoughts will only make them worse, and how to instead accept them and let them pass.
Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.sarabrewer.com/blog/pink-elephant-and-intrusive-thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast, Episode 108, Pink Elephant and Intrusive Thoughts. |
| 0:08.2 | Welcome to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast where we take a research-based, trauma-informed, and results-focused approach to quitting porn. |
| 0:18.6 | This approach has been revolutionary and changed thousands and thousands of lives. |
| 0:24.1 | I'm your host, Sarah Brewer. |
| 0:27.7 | Hey, you guys. How's everyone doing? It is cold. It is cold and I turned off my space heater to record this |
| 0:36.9 | podcast. So it might be a short episode today. |
| 0:41.5 | I need to get that thing back on. I am freezing. I just want to say thank you again for all the reviews. |
| 0:46.9 | You guys who leave me on the podcast. Should I keep reading them? Do you like hearing them? I like reading |
| 0:51.0 | them. I like to give shoutouts to people who leave them. So, you know, |
| 0:55.0 | yeah, we'll keep reading them. And I also like to share the wins. It's important. I always say |
| 1:00.0 | this at the beginning of my coaching calls. It's really important that we start everything with this |
| 1:04.0 | energy of we're winning and we're improving and we're doing great. And even if it's just small things like looking at the small ways |
| 1:11.4 | or you know a lot of times we're seeing the big ways too but looking at small and big ways that we are |
| 1:16.1 | doing well like celebrating ourselves celebrating ourselves for showing up even to listen to this |
| 1:22.0 | podcast celebrating ourselves for the progress that we have made that that helps us have energy to continue to make |
| 1:29.1 | even more progress so got this great review says this series is incredibly helpful started |
| 1:36.4 | listing to episode one a few weeks ago and have now listened to the first 20 episodes |
| 1:40.5 | I viewed pornography the first time when I was 12 and haven't been able to stop it |
| 1:44.6 | or control urges since, and I am 41 now. I have long wanted to stop, made many attempts, |
| 1:50.3 | and even have stopped for long periods of time, but have always gone back to porn. Your series |
| 1:54.7 | completely changed my thinking and approach. I now know that I am not shameful. I recognize and |
| 1:59.2 | identify how my urges feel. For the first time, |
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