184. Denial
Overcome Pornography for Good
Sara Brewer
5 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
If you’re currently on a journey towards quitting your pornography habit, chances are you’ve experienced denial along the way. Denial is a defensive state where you might refuse to accept or look at the truth, and while this is a common human experience, shame and guilt often come along with it.
Learn a shame-free perspective on denial and examples of when denial shows up as a result of grief. Hear about the importance of noticing and feeling your sense of grief and how to find the peace and healing you desire.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Overcome Pornography for Good Podcast, episode 184, Denial. |
| 0:06.1 | Welcome to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast, where we take a research-based, |
| 0:11.8 | trauma-informed, and results-focused approach to quitting porn. This approach has been revolutionary |
| 0:18.8 | and changed thousands and thousands of lives. |
| 0:22.3 | I'm your host, Sarah Brewer. |
| 0:24.8 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:26.4 | Welcome to today's podcast episode. |
| 0:28.3 | I was going to do our worthiness wounds part two today. |
| 0:31.6 | But I'm going to save that and record it, try to record it for next week's episode. |
| 0:36.1 | I just, honestly, today I'm just really |
| 0:38.3 | exhausted. It's my deadline day to get the podcast episode done. And that one is going to be kind of a |
| 0:45.1 | long one and I want to have a little bit more energy to give to it. It's just one that I'm excited |
| 0:50.2 | for and just want to make sure I have the right energy when I'm recording it. It's just, |
| 0:54.8 | you know, it's been such a great, lovely summer and we're just kind of recovering from |
| 1:00.2 | travel from sickness, from these things. And it's the end of a really long day of already doing |
| 1:05.6 | a lot of work today. And so we're going to have just like a short, powerful episode on denial. |
| 1:11.3 | So denial, right? |
| 1:13.0 | Come up, I'm sure a lot of you have experienced this in your journey to quit viewing porn. |
| 1:18.3 | Or, you know, really in lots of areas of our lives, denial, it's just this defensive state where you refuse to accept the truth or to look at the truth. Well, I think is really |
| 1:30.5 | fascinating about denial is that it is recognized as a stage in the grief process. So you have |
| 1:40.4 | your steps in grief and in processing grief and denial is one of those. |
| 1:45.0 | Denying that happened, denying that this is the reality. |
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