254. Learning to Trust Your Own Spiritual Authority
Overcome Pornography for Good
Sara Brewer
4.9 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
When sexuality and religion overlap, it is easy to get stuck looking for the “right” answer from your church or leaders. If you have ever found yourself searching for approval about masturbation, sexual decisions in your relationship, or whether quitting porn fits your faith tradition, this episode will help you understand why that search feels so confusing. The real question is not what your church says. It is whether you feel aligned with God and with yourself.
In this episode, I talk about developing your own spiritual authority instead of relying on external voices that often contradict each other. You will hear what it looks like to move away from black and white thinking and into principle-based living, where you get clear on the sexual values you want to live by and make decisions from integrity rather than fear. This shift opens space for nuance, compassion, and choices that truly support your wellbeing.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Overcome Pornography for Good Podcast, episode 254. |
| 0:05.7 | Welcome to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast, where we take a research-based, trauma-informed, and results-focused approach to quitting porn. |
| 0:16.5 | This approach has been revolutionary and changed thousands and thousands of lives. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm your host, Sarah Brewer. |
| 0:25.7 | Hey everyone, welcome to Overcome Pornography for Good. |
| 0:29.1 | In today's episode, I'm revisiting a topic that I believe will offer you so many insights, |
| 0:33.9 | some amazing takeaways, no matter where you are in your journey. |
| 0:39.8 | I hope you find it as impactful as when it first aired. It's always an amazing thing to revisit some of these topics that we need |
| 0:45.0 | to hear multiple times. Or if you haven't heard it before, I'm excited for you to hear this. So |
| 0:49.9 | welcome and let's dive in. I'm excited to talk about this topic today and we're just going to hop right in. |
| 0:57.8 | This is something that comes up a lot when we're coaching a lot around just the topic of pornography |
| 1:04.4 | and anything in the realm of sexuality, it comes up a ton. |
| 1:08.9 | What we see a lot, which I completely, completely understand and |
| 1:13.6 | is a normal thing to do is people will come to me wondering about their specific religion and their |
| 1:20.7 | specific religion's doctrine or their specific churches opinion on everything, if it's right, |
| 1:27.3 | if it's wrong, well, this is what I'm feeling, |
| 1:30.2 | this is what I'm believing this is what it's working for me, but is it okay? What does my church think |
| 1:35.3 | about this? You know, this could be everything in the realms of what type of sex is okay to have |
| 1:40.9 | with my spouse. Is it okay to masturbate anything? Anything along these lines. |
| 1:46.9 | Even like, is it okay for me to not use an addiction model when I'm trying to quit porn, |
| 1:52.6 | which, you know, we don't teach, which doesn't work. And some churches, you know, they have |
| 1:59.2 | really clear stances on specific things. Others won't. What you'll find is that your leaders in your church, whoever, you know, whatever congregation that you're attending, they're all going to have different sorts of opinions and you just don't always know what you're going to get. So again, this specifically, you know, sexual in the sexual realm, |
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