Porn free radio episode 341.

Well, this is Matt and I'm recording this episode in July of 2024.

And I'm excited you're here today.

I have a special guest.

And before I tell you who it is, I want to set it up.

When you started this recovery journey, you might have started by trying to use some tools,

right?

You might have put a covenant eyes on your computer or you may have joined a group.

And you may have even changed a couple behaviors or restricted something and you might

have had a little bit of success, a couple days of sobriety, maybe a week.

But at some point, you found yourself wrestling with a thought.

And the thought might have been something like this.

It's inevitable that I'm going

to go back to porn. There's no way I can keep this up. Or maybe you had a thought like,

a little bit won't hurt me, or I deserve this, or this isn't that bad, or you may have

gotten overwhelmed and said, hey, this is my only option

for dealing with this stress.

Now, all those are thoughts.

Sometimes I've referred to them as beliefs or mistaken beliefs.

And after relapse, after we've gone through sort of the cycle of acting out and we're back

at square zero, sometimes we can see them as mistaken beliefs or not true. But in the moment,

they feel true. And so we realize this challenge to go porn free is going to be really difficult.

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