231. Understanding Your Window of Tolerance with Hunter
Overcome Pornography for Good
Sara Brewer
5 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever feel like you're one stress away from losing control? That could mean you're outside your window of tolerance—a state where your emotional balance is compromised.
In this episode, Coach Hunter explains a powerful framework for understanding emotional regulation, using the metaphor of a rubber band to illustrate how our nervous system reacts to stress and why we sometimes turn to coping mechanisms, like pornography, when overwhelmed. You'll hear practical tools to return to your green zone and how to process emotions in a healthy way.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast, episode 231. |
| 0:06.8 | Welcome to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast where we take a research-based, trauma-informed, and results-focused approach to quitting porn. |
| 0:17.6 | This approach has been revolutionary and changed thousands and thousands of lives. I'm your |
| 0:23.5 | host, Sarah Brewer. Welcome everybody to the podcast episode this week. My name is Hunter. I'm one of the |
| 0:31.7 | coaches here at the Center for Overcoming, and I'm so excited to be here with you. In this podcast, |
| 0:36.8 | we're going to be sharing the |
| 0:37.8 | importance of understanding a comfort zone. The importance of creating an understanding of what your |
| 0:43.4 | comfort zone looks like is very important. Okay. Every single person has a comfort zone, or I like to |
| 0:49.9 | call it a green zone, right, a place where you feel comfortable, a place where you feel safe, |
| 0:55.1 | and a place where you're emotionally regulated. That's what a green zone is. And it's really |
| 0:59.9 | important as well to understand that every single person's level of comfort and discomfort |
| 1:04.5 | varies. Everybody's unique. And so it's really important not to compare to other people. |
| 1:09.2 | Okay. Your comfort zone and your discomfort level is unique to the next person. |
| 1:14.1 | So don't get caught up in comparing, okay? |
| 1:16.8 | I have a little example here that I want to share with you guys that can kind of help us |
| 1:20.6 | grasp this concept a little bit better. |
| 1:23.5 | So I want you guys to picture a rubber band. |
| 1:25.7 | Okay? |
| 1:26.1 | I'm going to hold up a rubber band. |
| 1:28.5 | Pretend I'm holding one up. |
| 1:33.6 | And this rubber band represents something called the window of tolerance, okay? |
| 1:34.9 | Your window of tolerance. |
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