242. Setting Boundaries with Loved Ones and Religious Leaders While Overcoming Porn
Overcome Pornography for Good
Sara Brewer
4.9 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Setting boundaries can feel challenging, especially when it involves people you care about—whether it’s a spouse, family, friends, or religious leaders. In this episode, we revisit an important discussion about setting healthy boundaries while overcoming pornography.
Transparency is crucial in building trust, especially with your spouse, but it’s equally important to protect your emotional and spiritual well-being. In this episode, we discuss how to draw the line between honesty and self-protection, how to set boundaries that nurture your recovery, and why spiritual maturity is essential for maintaining healthy relationships. You'll hear practical advice on how to handle disclosure conversations, manage well-meaning but challenging check-ins, and establish healthy boundaries in every aspect of your life.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast, episode 242. |
| 0:06.4 | Welcome to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast where we take a research-based, trauma-informed, and results-focused approach to quitting porn. |
| 0:17.2 | This approach has been revolutionary and changed thousands and thousands of lives. |
| 0:22.7 | I'm your host, Sarah Brewer. |
| 0:26.2 | Hey everyone, welcome to today's podcast episode. |
| 0:30.2 | This last week during our coaching call in Overcome Pornography, this question came up and |
| 0:35.5 | it was so helpful to talk through with so many people, but it was |
| 0:39.6 | specifically around boundaries with religious leaders. And we also talked boundaries with other |
| 0:46.2 | people, boundaries with spouses. But this specific thing that came up was a client noticing, |
| 0:52.8 | you know, he was talking about trying to quit porn with his bishop |
| 0:56.1 | and it went south. And he's noticing how different religious leaders have different opinions |
| 1:04.5 | and different perspectives. And it just feels like whiplash going and talking to their religion leaders about it because |
| 1:12.2 | one is giving this piece of advice, another piece is giving this advice. |
| 1:15.6 | Some people are trying to take away privileges while other people say, you know, as long |
| 1:20.8 | as you're, while other people aren't. |
| 1:24.3 | And so what do we do? |
| 1:25.3 | What do we do in that scenario? |
| 1:26.4 | What do we do in that situation? |
| 1:28.1 | We talked about that in depth. And that's why I wanted to release this podcast episode because I referenced it in the |
| 1:33.2 | coaching call. I think it's a great reminder around what are boundaries that we can have with our |
| 1:40.8 | religious leaders if we're including them in our process of quitting porn. Do we need to |
| 1:45.5 | include them? How do we know? How do we know if we're being honest or if we're hiding things? |
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