You are listening to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast, Episode 30, The Power of Accepting

Yourself.

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I'm your host, Sarah Brewer. Hey, everyone. So glad you're here today and I'm really excited to talk to you

about this concept of accepting yourself and why that's so powerful and what it means to accept yourself. And,

you know, big questions that I get around it, you know, it's kind of a hard thing to do.

And we have some barriers in our minds that are keeping us from do that. And I'm excited to

talk about all of that with you today. So here's what we're going to talk about. We're going to talk

about how accepting yourself makes it easier to change, why that's true. We're going to talk about

the difference between justification and acceptance. And then I'm going to talk about the how,

how can we learn to accept ourselves better. So the first thing is that

this principle that I teach in my teachings and my podcast and my coaching is that the more

you accept yourself, the easier it is to change. And if you go and listen to any big spiritual

leaders, that seems to be a common theme that comes up is accepting yourself is very powerful and accepting yourself leads to more change.

In fact, I just read this again. Marianne Williamson talks about this a lot in her book, A Return to Love.

I love that book. I totally recommend it if anyone's looking for a good read. But here's the

thing. I get a lot of questions about this concept. The more you accept yourself, the easier it is to

change. People hear that and they're like, what? Like if I accept myself, then why would I be

motivated to change? Is it an accepting myself and accepting where I am,

indirect conflict of me wanting to quit viewing pornography?

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