266. A New Way to Control Your Sexual Urges
Overcome Pornography for Good
Sara Brewer
4.9 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Are you constantly trying to control your sexual urges by building stronger fences, adding more rules, or relying on willpower? If so, you might be stuck in the exhausting cycle of resisting, giving in, and starting over. In this episode, I’m revisiting a powerful metaphor that will completely change how you think about your sexuality and what it actually means to be in control of it.
Instead of treating your sexuality like something dangerous that has to be locked away, I invite you to imagine it differently. What if the goal isn’t to cage it, silence it, or fight it, but to learn how to tame it? I walk you through a new way of understanding control that isn’t about fear or force, but about building trust, leadership, and a healthy relationship with your own sexual energy.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Overcome Pornography for Good Podcast, episode 266. |
| 0:06.2 | Welcome to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast where we take a research-based, trauma-informed, and results-focused approach to quitting porn. |
| 0:17.0 | This approach has been revolutionary and changed thousands and thousands of lives. |
| 0:22.5 | I'm your host, Sarah Brewer. |
| 0:26.1 | Hey everyone, welcome to Overcome Pornography for Good. |
| 0:29.6 | In today's episode, I'm revisiting a topic that I believe will offer you so many insights, |
| 0:34.4 | some amazing takeaways, no matter where you are in your journey. I hope you find |
| 0:39.4 | it as impactful as when it first aired. It's always an amazing thing to revisit some of these |
| 0:44.5 | topics that we need to hear multiple times. Or if you haven't heard it before, I'm excited for you to |
| 0:49.7 | hear this. So welcome and let's dive in. |
| 0:55.9 | Let's dive into today's episode. |
| 0:59.0 | I want to talk about how to control your sexual urges. |
| 1:01.1 | Oof, this is a good one. |
| 1:04.6 | And you've heard me, if you've listened to podcast, you've heard me talk about this before. |
| 1:09.1 | But I want to share it a little bit different than I have in the past. |
| 1:13.8 | And I want to share it with a metaphor and just talk about it a little bit differently than we might have talked about it in the past and other episodes. |
| 1:17.8 | I remember I used to use this metaphor, at least parts of it, and I totally forgot about it. |
| 1:22.6 | So I remembered it and I'm like, oh, it's time to resurrect this metaphor and we're going to add |
| 1:26.8 | on to it a little bit. |
| 1:27.9 | But I want you to imagine that you grew up in a village. You grew up in this village and your whole |
| 1:32.8 | life you've been told that tigers are terrifying and dangerous and they will destroy you. |
| 1:40.8 | And they are one of, if not the most dangerous things out there. Really, really got to be |
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