214. Why Surrendering to Urges Will Give You Control over Them

Overcome Pornography for Good

Sara Brewer

Christianity, Sexuality, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

5 • 679 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

I dive deep into the concept of surrendering to your urges and explain why it's such a vital part of the process of overcoming pornography addiction. I share insights on why fighting your urges using willpower alone is a losing strategy, and how surrendering to them can help you better understand the underlying emotions driving your behavior.

Learn practical strategies for surrendering to them in a healthy way, without giving in to the temptation to view pornography. Discover how this shift in mindset can empower you to take control of your life and overcome pornography for good.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast. Why surrendering to urges
0:05.8	will give you control over them.
0:09.0	Welcome to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast where we take a research-based,
0:14.7	trauma-informed, and results-focused approach to quitting porn. This approach has been revolutionary and changed thousands and
0:23.7	thousands of lives. I'm your host, Sarah Brewer. Hey everyone, today I'm reintroducing a topic
0:31.6	that I introduced a little while. It's been quite a few years, but I love this idea of surrendering to urges
0:40.1	and what that means. And so we're talking about why we should stop fighting our urges and why we
0:46.5	should start to surrender to our urges. And when you hear me say that, I know it sounds funny,
0:51.1	like I'm saying, just give in to your urges, but I'm not. I'm talking about a whole
0:54.9	different concept here. Surrendering to your urges, letting them be, letting them exist is not threatening
1:02.5	to you quitting porn. In fact, the more you surrender and let them exist, the much easier it
1:08.4	will be to quit porn and the more control you'll have.
1:11.2	So please enjoy this audio where I talk about surrendering to urges and how to do it
1:16.7	and this new concept if you haven't applied or haven't learned and how it will completely
1:22.0	change the game for you. Completely change the game for you. I'm so excited for y'all to implement it.
1:26.6	Again, enjoy this audio.
1:29.9	Today, I want to talk about surrendering and why surrendering is such an important,
1:38.3	vital part of the process of overcoming pornography. So listen, this is really different than how you've probably
1:46.1	thought about quitting pornography before. You've probably thought of it as a fight and a battle,
1:51.8	and we have to go and we have to fight this demon. We have to go and fight this thing within us.
1:55.8	No, that's not what we're going to do. This is not a fight. This is not a battle. This story that you have in
2:03.8	your mind that there is a demon that you need to defeat here is just not true. And thinking of it as a
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