270. The Impact of Fact vs. Story in Quitting Porn
Overcome Pornography for Good
Sara Brewer
4.9 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
What story are you telling yourself about your porn habit? In this episode, I dive into the crucial difference between facts and the stories we tell ourselves and how your story can either keep you stuck or help you move forward. While facts are objective, the stories we create around them are often based on assumptions, fears, and beliefs that may not be true.
Understanding the power of your stories helps you take back control. By changing your story, you can change your actions and your emotional experience, moving away from self-judgment and toward empowerment.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Overcome Pornography for Good Podcast, episode 270. |
| 0:05.9 | Welcome to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast where we take a research-based, trauma-informed, and results-focused approach to quitting porn. |
| 0:16.7 | This approach has been revolutionary and changed thousands and thousands of lives. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm your host, Sarah Brewer. |
| 0:25.9 | Hey everyone, welcome to Overcome Pornography for Good. |
| 0:29.3 | In today's episode, I'm revisiting a topic that I believe will offer you so many insights, |
| 0:34.1 | some amazing takeaways, no matter where you are in your journey. I hope you find it as |
| 0:39.5 | impactful as when it first aired. It's always an amazing thing to revisit some of these topics |
| 0:44.6 | that we need to hear multiple times. Or if you haven't heard it before, I'm excited for you to hear this. |
| 0:49.9 | So welcome and let's dive in. |
| 0:53.9 | Let's talk about today's topic which is fact versus thought or fact versus |
| 0:59.8 | story is how we're talking about it here so this topic fact versus story it's so oh my gosh so |
| 1:07.4 | important and life changing if you let it be it can affect every single area of your life so |
| 1:14.7 | everything that happens everything that happens in life there are facts and then there's a story |
| 1:20.7 | your story about it so for example 2020 the year is 2020. Fact, 2020, fact, COVID. COVID has been on the earth in 2020. Okay. The fact about |
| 1:36.6 | COVID is that it's a virus. Maybe facts that you could say about COVID is that one of your state |
| 1:42.8 | leaders told you to stay home. Maybe a fact is your |
| 1:45.9 | classes are online or your kids classes are online. Okay, those are the facts. And then you have a |
| 1:51.1 | story about those facts. The story might be, this is the worst year ever. Everything is harder. |
| 1:56.8 | Now I can't have fun. Now I can't go on dates. Right. Some of our stories are even, it's the end of the world. |
| 2:02.9 | And we're all, you know, it's just a matter of time before we all die. Right. There's fact. The fact is the virus. |
| 2:10.3 | You could put fact number of people who have died, put fact number of people who have had it. Right? But even that, you see how even that gets a little |
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