332 - Fact vs. Fear

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Matt Dobschuetz

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 672 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

We've all heard the phrase, “Fact vs. Fiction.” But a friend of mine said it should be “Fact vs. Fear.” It's fear that often leads us to our escapism and avoidance with porn.

This is part 7 in our new series, The Choice is Yours.

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0:00.0	Porn Free Radio, episode 332.
0:17.0	Hey, this is Matt, and we're celebrating 10 years of porn-free radio over the next 10 episodes.
0:23.4	Episode 335 will be released on our 10th anniversary, April 30th, 2024.
0:31.2	If you have a story about hope and action you took from the podcast, send me an email at
0:36.2	Matt at Recoveredman.com.
0:38.3	I'll be reading your letters on that show. Well, on today's show, we are continuing our choice is yours series. And we've all heard the phrase
1:14.7	fact versus fiction. And I know what you might be thinking. Matt, what kind of choice is that?
1:21.4	Of course, I'm going to choose fact. I'm going to choose the truth over fiction. But a friend of mine said to me
1:32.0	recently this, it shouldn't be fact versus fiction. It should be fact versus fear. It's fear that
1:41.5	we all too often agree with and treat as the truth that leads to our
1:47.3	escapism and our avoidance with porn.
1:50.8	In his 13th letter, Seneca, the Stoic, wrote this.
1:57.9	There are more things likely to frighten us than there are to crush us. We suffer more
2:06.2	often in imagination than in reality. I think fear leads to a lot of our suffering and a lot of our behaviors, our avoidance,
2:21.3	are escaping to porn, are using porn as a solution,
2:26.9	are in response to ungrounded fears.
2:32.6	And when we don't define our fears, when we don't even know that fears are
2:37.0	controlling us, that's when we make really poor choices. And again, this episode, this
2:47.5	series is all about your choice. the choice is always yours born free radio
2:56.3	come on Well, welcome. Come on.
3:07.7	Come on.
3:08.9	Come on.
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