223. How Long Do Uncomfortable Emotions Last?
Overcome Pornography for Good
Sara Brewer
5 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever felt anxious or antsy when you view less porn? In this episode, coach Jessica addresses a common question many clients face: How long do I have to feel uncomfortable emotions, and how can I process the urges that come with this?
Jessica unpacks the science behind emotions and urges. These sensations—whether they show up as fidgeting, bouncing your leg, or tightness in your chest—are simply your body’s response to thoughts in your brain. The good news? These uncomfortable feelings have a predictable shelf life.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Overcoming Pornography for Good Podcast, episode 223. |
| 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. |
| 0:16.8 | This approach has been revolutionary and changed thousands and thousands of lives. I'm your host, |
| 0:23.2 | Sarah Brewer. Hey everyone, I'm so excited to share this audio with you today from Jessica. Jess is one of |
| 0:32.0 | our awesome coaches in overcome pornography for good. If you're in the program, you know her well. |
| 0:37.0 | She is a brilliant coach. She is also, |
| 0:40.6 | you know, a really awesome specialist in relationships and does our relationship calls as well. |
| 0:45.9 | We need to have an episode on where it's just me and her chatting. We haven't done one of those |
| 0:49.5 | in a while, but she's very, very active in our community in the program. You see her a lot. |
| 0:53.7 | She's an awesome |
| 0:54.2 | coach. She changes lives. She's got so much great knowledge and really great skill of coaching. |
| 0:59.6 | Today, this audio, she is talking about emotions and this question of like, you know, how long do I |
| 1:05.1 | have to feel this emotion for, or how long is this going to stick around? Or if you are someone |
| 1:08.3 | who's a little bit afraid of emotions, like if they're there, am I going to get stuck in them? I'm afraid to feel them because they're |
| 1:14.4 | not going to go away. She talks about that in this episode. This is one that she recorded for us a year ago, |
| 1:20.0 | a couple years ago, but it's definitely a topic worth revisiting. So you guys enjoy this episode |
| 1:25.6 | from Jessica and we will talk to you soon. Bye bye. |
| 1:29.9 | This is a question that we get a lot and I've had it recently with several of my clients and so I wanted to bring it up. |
| 1:37.4 | And it says it seems the less I'm viewing porn, the more antsy my body is. |
| 1:46.4 | There have been some days that I feel like I can't stop bouncing my leg or fidgeting or not being able to sit still. How can I let it not bother me? |
| 1:53.4 | Because in some ways, I feel a strong urge to go view porn when I get antsy like this. How can I process this? |
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