You are listening to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast, episode 273.

Welcome to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast, where we take a research-based, trauma-informed, and results-focused approach to quitting porn.

This approach has been revolutionary and changed thousands and thousands of lives.

I'm your host, Sarah Brewer.

I'm Hunter Garrett, and I'm so excited to talk to you guys all about trust and how you can

build trust in yourself every single day.

So have you ever noticed this before?

You can be doing really, really well, you know, maybe even you've gone a couple weeks,

even a couple months, or a couple years.

But yet there's still a voice in the back of your mind saying something like, yeah,

but don't mess this up.

This probably won't last forever.

You know how this usually ends, right?

Thoughts like that. So instead of feeling

confident, you're feeling cautious every single day, kind of feeling like you're walking on thin

ice, hoping, and with your fingers crossed that you're not going to slip. Now, what's interesting

with this is nothing has actually gone wrong yet, but you just don't trust yourself, right? So if that's you, I want you guys to continue to tune in and listen because this is something that can be so important. It can be groundbreaking in your journey. This does not mean you're broken. It means that you haven't learned how to build self-trust yet for yourself. And that's so, so important. And that's what we're going to be chatting about today. And I'm really excited for it. So tune in. This is wonderful. Now, a lot of people think that confidence comes from the results that you're seeing. Like, I'll trust myself once I've gone long enough without slipping. Now, notice that that's pretty broad, going long enough. Well, what is that? Right. It's pretty relative.

But that's actually not how you can build trust in yourself. Because trust is based on a perfect streak. Then one mistake resets everything, right? And that's obviously not going to help you overcome pornography for good in the long run. Right. Like I said before, it might last a couple days, a couple weeks, a couple months. but at the end, it's not building trust in yourself.

Now that you're back, Like I said before, it might last a couple days, a couple weeks, a couple months. But at the end, it's not building trust in yourself.

Now that you're back to, see, I know you couldn't do this after a slip-up,

after that one mistake, your cycle is going to end.

And it's going to feel like there's a lot of pressure, lost trust, and doubt.

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