164. Jenga vs. Super Mario Brothers
Overcome Pornography for Good
Sara Brewer
5 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In Jenga, you don’t want to be the person who pulls out the piece that brings the whole tower crashing down. It’s high pressure, high stakes, and one wrong move ends the game. This isn’t the mindset that will help you quit viewing porn.
On the other hand, Super Mario Brothers involves dying over and over again, but you don’t start at the very beginning. You go again from your last checkpoint. This is the mindset that will help you use your slip-ups as growth opportunities, and I’m showing you how on this episode.
Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.sarabrewer.com/blog/jenga-super-mario-brothers
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Overcome Pornacrashy for Good podcast, Jenga versus Super Mario |
| 0:06.5 | Brothers. Welcome to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast where we take a research-based, |
| 0:13.3 | trauma-informed, and results-focused approach to quitting porn. This approach has been revolutionary |
| 0:20.4 | and changed thousands and thousands of lives. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm your host, Sarah Brewer. Hey, you guys, welcome to today's episode. This is going to be a short |
| 0:30.4 | episode. You know what? That's good. I'm really excited to share this concept with you. I don't |
| 0:35.3 | think I've shared it on the podcast. I think it's a concept I've only taught in my free classes. Right now, I am on Oahu in Hawaii, |
| 0:44.7 | and it was a very short last minute thing. And I messaged my podcast, people, I woke up in a sweat in the middle of the night last night. |
| 0:52.5 | And I was like, oh no, I forgot to |
| 0:54.8 | record a podcast before I left. And they said, just grab your headphones and go record something |
| 1:01.2 | really quick. And so that's what we're doing. And when I have to do, you know, quick episodes like |
| 1:06.6 | this, I often get tons and tons of good feedback on it. So hopefully this is useful to you all. |
| 1:11.8 | Like I said, this is a really powerful concept that I think I've only taught in my classes, |
| 1:16.4 | and I've never shared on the podcast before. So let's get into it. A mistake that a lot of people |
| 1:22.8 | make when they want to quit viewing pornography is, you know, this all or nothing mindset that we talk |
| 1:28.8 | about a lot, particularly this idea that if you slip up, you have to start over. And so let's say, |
| 1:37.9 | you know, different programs or accountability groups or whatever, you know, you're trying to go 30 |
| 1:43.4 | days or 60 days. And if you go 29 days without viewing porn, but you slip up on the 29th day, oh shoot, you've got to start all the way over and try to make it 30 days again. This is a huge, huge mistake. It creates all or nothing thinking. It creates a lot of pressure. And what ultimately does is it |
| 2:01.3 | just creates a lot of that willpower-resist cycle. It's a very all or nothing mindset. It's an |
| 2:07.2 | addiction mindset instead of a growth mindset, which is what we're trying to cultivate that is |
| 2:13.2 | ultimately going to be the most helpful to you as you're trying to quit porn. What this is like, |
| 2:18.6 | is it's like playing Jenga. If you guys play Jenga before, it's with the blocks and you, everyone goes |
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