Porn Free Radio Episode 265.

All right.

If you're new to this show, I want to share two fundamental ideas that are crucial and core

to Porn Free Radio.

And it's how we define addiction and recovery.

Now, what we call addiction in varying degrees is an extreme version of a habit.

Dr. A. Thomas Horveth wrote that. And he said it's the habit of

repeated involvement with anything despite excessive costs because of craving. All right? So it's

repeated involvement. There's these excessive costs that come along with it, but we keep going back to it because of

patterns of craving. But at the end of the day, it's a habit, just like any other habit in your life.

And so overcoming addiction or recovery, we define as the process of transforming our habits.

Get that?

So it's the process of how do we get better habits?

How do we let go of this addiction and move into recovery?

How do we change?

Now, Craig Para is fond of saying to break a habit, you have to make a habit.

Craig Parra coach has been on porn free radio five times.

And sometimes I think when we come at our porn use and the challenge with it, we think we can

just choose any habit to replace it with.

Right.

We think, oh, I'm just going to try this new thing. You know, we're looking for

something equally stimulating, like a hobby or passion. But it doesn't take long to figure out

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