278. Using the Rules of Improv in Quitting Porn with Kat
Overcome Pornography for Good
Sara Brewer
4.9 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
What can improv teach you about overcoming pornography? In this episode, coach Kat Jenkins shares how the principles of improv can be applied to quitting porn and navigating the challenges that come with it. Using rules from improv, she shows how you can change your responses, build trust with yourself, and create better outcomes in your journey.
Kat walks through nine core improv rules and explains how each can support progress. From saying yes and being a good listener to finding your team, taking up space, and understanding who holds the power in a situation, these strategies help can help you approach your urges with curiosity and intentionality rather than avoidance or shame.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast, episode 278. |
| 0:06.8 | Welcome to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast where we take a research-based, trauma-informed, and results-focused approach to quitting porn. |
| 0:17.6 | This approach has been revolutionary and changed thousands and thousands of lives. I'm your |
| 0:23.5 | host, Sarah Brewer. Hi, welcome to the podcast. I'm Kat Jenkins, a coach here in the program |
| 0:32.1 | overcome pornography for good. I'm really excited to be talking to you guys today. We're going to be |
| 0:36.8 | talking about sort of how to |
| 0:38.9 | use the rules of improv to overcome pornography. So I got the idea for this podcast. I was watching a |
| 0:46.1 | masterclass. Amy Poller's masterclass, she gives the rules of improv and she called it prepared to be |
| 0:52.4 | unprepared. And I think that that is sort of how life is, |
| 0:55.6 | right? And that's kind of what she talked about. She suggested that these rules that she has used |
| 1:00.8 | in improv could also be used in life for anyone in different reasons and in different places. |
| 1:06.3 | We can apply these rules. And I would agree that that is true and that we can also, as I was listening to |
| 1:12.6 | this, I was like, these rules are all really great for what I do with my clients in overcoming |
| 1:17.4 | pornography. And so I thought I would share these rules today. And I want you to think about how |
| 1:22.9 | you can apply these to your life and how you overcome pornography and what it looks like for you. So in improv, |
| 1:30.4 | just like in life, it's kind of all made up as you're going along, right? Like you don't really |
| 1:34.5 | know what's going to happen next. You don't know what that person in the scene is going to bring. |
| 1:38.5 | I tell my clients this all the time. Like, just make it up. You made up the stories in your head |
| 1:42.8 | right now. So let's just make up better stories. Let's just make up a better way of doing this. We're all just making it up as we go. So let's just make up the best stories that we can. And so I think that that's really helpful too as you think about like how to apply these rules. Like we're just making up how we feel about ourselves and the stories that we tell about who we are and about our |
| 2:01.5 | past and about our future and about all these things. So let's just work on using these rules to make up |
| 2:06.8 | the best stories that we can. So I really think these are going to help you as you work through |
| 2:11.9 | your journey and overcoming pornography and how that's going to look for you. So I'm going to share and I'm going to talk |
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