217. Discomfort on Purpose
Overcome Pornography for Good
Sara Brewer
5 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever feel like quitting pornography is just too difficult and uncomfortable? In this episode, I share a powerful concept that completely changed my life: discomfort is the currency for success.
Join me as I dive deep into why discomfort is essential for overcoming pornography and creating the life you truly desire. I share practical tips for reframing your mindset around discomfort and teach you how to process your emotions in a healthy way.
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| 0:00.0 | You were listening to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast, episode 217, Discomfort on Purpose. |
| 0:08.7 | Welcome to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast where we take a research-based, trauma-informed, and results-focused approach to quitting porn. |
| 0:19.5 | This approach has been revolutionary and changed thousands and thousands |
| 0:23.7 | of lives. I'm your host, Sarah Brewer. Hey everyone, today I am sharing an audio with you about |
| 0:32.8 | feeling discomfort and feeling it on purpose and why that is so important and what that looks |
| 0:39.9 | like, this concept changed my life. This concept completely changed my life. The process to |
| 0:47.6 | quitting porn, overcoming porn, to becoming a new person is a process of feeling discomfort. I've heard it said before that discomfort |
| 0:59.1 | is the currency for success. Discomfort is the currency for success. Oh my gosh, that changed my |
| 1:04.8 | life. And understanding that concept in a deeper way that I'm going to be sharing with you |
| 1:09.5 | today will really be a game |
| 1:11.0 | changer for you. Our lower brain, it likes to keep us safe. It likes to have us do things that we have |
| 1:18.4 | always done before because it feels comfortable. This is why maybe investing in yourself can feel |
| 1:25.5 | scary and uncomfortable. It's your lower brain saying, no, don't do |
| 1:29.2 | anything different. Your lower brain doesn't really care that much about you progressing and learning and |
| 1:34.0 | growing. It cares much more about doing what you're doing because it knows that it's safe. And so to change, |
| 1:40.1 | you have to make decisions that require you to feel uncomfortable, whether that is, you know, |
| 1:45.9 | deciding to start a new workout routine and it feels uncomfortable, whether that's coming and |
| 1:50.3 | joining the program and it feels a little bit uncomfortable or a little bit scary or you have |
| 1:54.3 | some doubts. Instead of looking at those fears and doubts as obstacles, I want you to look at them |
| 1:59.7 | as the first step to working through this |
| 2:03.5 | habit because what we're going to teach you and what we work through over and over and over and |
| 2:07.9 | again and you get like the coaching on it. So it's not just you trying to figure it out on your own. |
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