276. When It’s Really Difficult: Learning to Handle Discomfort
Overcome Pornography for Good
Sara Brewer
4.9 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
What do you do when quitting pornography feels really difficult? In this episode, I offer a powerful mindset shift that can completely change how you approach the hardest parts of this process. Instead of seeing discomfort as a sign that something has gone wrong, I invite you to see it as one of the most valuable skills you can develop.
You’ll learn how building your ability to handle discomfort can transform not only your journey to quit pornography, but every area of your life. This episode will help you reframe difficulty as growth, process uncomfortable emotions more effectively, and strengthen your ability to handle life’s challenges.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast, episode 276, for when it's really difficult. |
| 0:09.1 | Welcome to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast where we take a research-based, trauma-informed, and results-focused approach to quitting porn. |
| 0:19.9 | This approach has been revolutionary and changed thousands and |
| 0:23.8 | thousands of lives. I'm your host, Sarah Brewer. Hey, you guys, welcome to the podcast episode this |
| 0:32.1 | week. Thanks for being here. I'm glad that you're here. Today I'm going to give you a little |
| 0:36.9 | pump-up talk. We're going to talk |
| 0:39.7 | about what to do when it's really difficult, right? Because quitting pornography is a process and it's |
| 0:45.8 | hard and it's difficult and it takes effort. And so I want to give you some tools for you to use |
| 0:52.7 | when this happens when it's really difficult. |
| 0:55.6 | So let's dive into this. First, let's talk a little bit about what is difficult when it |
| 1:00.0 | comes to quitting porn. I talked about this in depth a few episodes ago when, what was the title? |
| 1:05.9 | It was something about what happens when you stop viewing porn or what to look out for when you |
| 1:10.5 | stop viewing porn. And what happens is all of those porn or what to look out for when you stop viewing porn. |
| 1:11.2 | And what happens is all of those emotions that you've been avoiding when you quit being porn, |
| 1:16.1 | you have all those negative emotions boil up to the top. So what's so difficult about quitting |
| 1:20.2 | porn is the discomfort from feeling your emotions and the discomfort from learning how to process |
| 1:27.4 | those urges, that desire for porn. |
| 1:30.8 | K desire is just another emotion. |
| 1:32.6 | There's a lot of emotions we have to feel when we're quitting porn. |
| 1:35.6 | You have to feel the loneliness, the stress, the, you know, whatever it is that you're |
| 1:42.5 | running away from. |
| 1:43.1 | And you have to feel the discomfort of the desire for is that you're running away from, and you have to feel the discomfort |
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