333 - Honesty vs. Hiding

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Matt Dobschuetz

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

4.9 • 672 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Before recovery, I lived a divided life. I hid anything I found unacceptable from my friends and family including my problematic porn use. On the surface, I presented a "nice guy" version of myself to be liked and accepted. It was exhausting and painfully lonely.

In recovery, my why is "to be the same on the inside as on the outside." But this requires honesty.

This is part 8 in our series, The Choice is Yours.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Matt, and we're celebrating 10 years of porn-free radio over the next 10 episodes.
0:17.4	Episode 335 will be released on our 10th anniversary, April 30th, 2024.
0:23.9	If you have a story about hope and action you took from the podcast, send me an email at
0:28.7	Matt at recoveredman.com.
0:30.9	I'll be reading your letters on that show.
0:33.4	Thank you. All right. All right. Before we get started, I want to talk quickly about Rev Group coaching on today's show.
1:00.6	We're going to talk a lot about hiding and honesty.
1:04.1	And one of the key ways we come out of hiding and start building habits with honesty is in an active recovery group.
1:13.6	This spring, join a group of like-minded men, guys who listen to the podcast like you and are
1:19.1	taking action to live porn free, get into one of our rev groups, discover the benefits of
1:25.4	working with others. We meet each week via Zoom, but guys connect
1:30.1	and message daily. You don't have to do this alone. We have several different times to choose from
1:35.3	to check out available openings or to get on our waiting list. Go to Recoveredman.com
1:40.2	slash Rev. That's Recoveredman.com slash rev and apply today so have you ever watched a movie
1:49.0	where the story's being told by the main character and you know you're accepting that the story that
1:59.9	the character is telling you is what's real,
2:02.5	what's happened.
2:03.7	But at the end of the movie, there's a plot twist.
2:09.0	And you realize that the character who's been narrating the story is actually the villain,
2:16.1	or he's been deceptive all along.
2:21.2	In literature, they call it an unreliable narrator.
2:25.4	It's where someone is kind of hiding in plain sight.
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