152 – Resistance In Recovery Pt. 1: First 30 Days
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Matt Dobschuetz
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🗓️ 12 April 2018
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Part 1 of 3 episodes on Resistance In Recovery focuses on stage 1, the first 30 days.
"Most of us have two lives. The life we live and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance." -Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
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| 0:00.0 | Porn Free Radio, Episode 152. Last year, I read a book called The Art of War by Stephen |
| 0:06.3 | Pressfield. Now, it's a book about writing and the creative process, and specifically, |
| 0:11.0 | what gets in the way of us being creative, what gets in the way of us doing the work. |
| 0:18.4 | And he has this idea that the thing that gets in the way is something he calls |
| 0:25.1 | resistance with a capital R. He says this, most of us have two lives. The life we live and the |
| 0:35.0 | unlived life within us. Between the two stands resistance. Now, he lists |
| 0:41.8 | all these different types of resistance, things that resistance does to get in the way of what |
| 0:47.6 | we're called to do. You know, he talks about procrastination. He talks about distraction. He talks about addiction. And I got excited when I was |
| 0:58.4 | reading this because I couldn't help but think about all the resistance that we have going porn |
| 1:04.6 | free. You know, for us, it's obvious sometimes. It's the edging. It's the dabbling. It's the snacking. You know, |
| 1:13.2 | it's when we get hijacked and have a messy relapse. It's even those days after a relapse when we just |
| 1:22.4 | feel bad and guilty and sad and downtrodden, you know, it's like it robs us of the couple days afterwards. |
| 1:31.4 | I mean, you know, and it can show up in our habits like, you know, when we don't do a morning |
| 1:38.2 | routine or when we don't make a phone call, it can show up in double looks or other, you know, kind of unsound activities like |
| 1:47.4 | that. And what it does, what resistance at its core does is try to keep us from changing, |
| 1:56.1 | from getting better. It tries to keep the status quo. You know, we talked about this a couple weeks ago when we talked |
| 2:04.1 | about ego is the enemy. You know, ego wants to keep things comfortable. And in the same way, |
| 2:12.1 | resistance is sort of giving in to the ego. So I want to talk about resistance today and over the next |
| 2:21.7 | couple of episodes, and I want to talk about it how it affects us at different stages of recovery. |
| 2:27.9 | Now, here's one myth that I think people have. People have this myth that if they get to 30 days, if they get to 60 days, 90 days, |
| 2:36.6 | one year, that they're going to figure this out, that recovery, they're just going to figure it out. |
| 2:43.8 | It's just going to be sort of automated. And while I will say that it does get better with certain |
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