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🗓️ 26 August 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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In this episode, I talk about the fear of being misunderstood. The irony is we give so much energy, in life, to what people think and how we're perceived. But despite our best efforts we still are misunderstood.
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0:00.0 | Porn Free Radio, Episode 2.38. I remember early in recovery, one fear that really challenged me. |
0:09.7 | And it was the fear of being misunderstood. And I remember just even when I was struggling to get |
0:18.7 | my plan in place and struggling to get sobriety, I would have these |
0:22.4 | conversations with my wife and she would ask, you know, heartfelt questions and I would be |
0:28.1 | defensive. I would be angry. I would escalate. And deep down, what I was really scared of was |
0:35.6 | being misunderstood. Like she would think less of me, or she would think |
0:41.1 | that I didn't have things together or I wasn't in control. And this really was unhelpful for me |
0:48.2 | in recovery. And so on today's show, we're going to talk about welcoming being misunderstood, the idea of |
0:57.1 | how do we welcome the discomfort of being misunderstood in our lives and not run from it. |
1:04.9 | So we'll get to that in a second, but first I want to talk about Rev Group coaching. |
1:09.0 | Now, I started Rev Group coaching for men who need more connection. |
1:14.4 | Rev stands for revolution. |
1:16.7 | Some guys ask me that. |
1:17.5 | What does Rev stand for? |
1:18.4 | It stands for Revolution. |
1:20.1 | The revolution is this. |
1:21.4 | In order to get free from porn, you need to do things differently. |
1:25.4 | And porn thrives in isolation. And Rev is all about connection. |
1:32.6 | And so, you know, the first thing we think of when we're struggling with porn is, hey, I need a |
1:37.0 | group of guys on a call. No, that's not the first thing we think of. We think of how can we deal |
1:41.1 | with this on our own? How can we deal with this by ourselves own how can we deal with this um by ourselves but as we |
1:46.8 | know that doesn't work so rev group coaching is weekly coaching it's confidential there's high |
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