Porn Free Radio, episode 235. Man, I'm excited about today's episode. I'm going to talk about something

I don't think I've connected before in Porn Free Radio. It's a connection, a consequence of compulsive

porn use. Now, what happens when we get trapped, when we get stuck in a pattern of using porn compulsively,

we shut ourselves out to a lot of things in life.

We kind of get blinders on and we're continually trying to go to porn to meet needs.

We're trying to escape.

We're trying to numb.

We're trying to have fun. We're trying to ease boredom. We're trying to escape. We're trying to numb. We're trying to have fun. We're trying to ease

boredom. We're trying to ease aloneness. There's all these emotional needs that we start primarily

trying to get from porn and porn behaviors. But one of the biggest costs and consequences of this

is porn starts to zap us of our creativity and our imagination.

It's to the point where when I start working with new coaching clients, sometimes when I ask,

hey, what do you like in life? What sparks joy in you? There's like almost nothing. It's like they can't kind of remember

what they like or what really excites them because porn has sort of siphoned off all of that

energy. I was talking to one guy and he used this great example. He said growing up,

he was a real picky eater. But he liked chicken nuggets and French fries, right? You remember this,

right? You've met a kid like this. Well, Where's the thing? As he got older as an adult,

he was still eating chicken nuggets and french fries when he went out to fancy dinners with his wife.

You know, they'd go to a steak restaurant and he'd order off the kids menu. He got really into

this rut of chicken nuggets and french fries.

It was predictable.

It was safe.

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