You are listening to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast, episode 47, Pillar 2, Mindful

Urge Management.

Welcome to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast where we take a research-based, trauma-informed,

and results-focused approach to quitting porn.

This approach has been revolutionary and changed thousands and

thousands of lives. I'm your host, Sarah Brewer. Hey, you guys, welcome to the podcast episode

this week. We are going to talk about the second pillar in overcoming pornography for good,

the second pillar, which is mindful urge management. So I want to talk about what that means,

mindful urge management, how to mindfully manage your urges. We've talked about this a little bit in the podcast. We do a ton of

coaching around it in the program, but the idea here is that we want to learn how to manage our

urges in a way that will help us instead of a way that will just make them worse and in a way

that makes us feel out of control. So many people

are just really scared of urges and really afraid of feeling an urge. And what I teach is that there is

nothing, nothing, nothing at all to be afraid of with urges if you understand what they are,

if you learn how to mindfully manage them. And so we're going to dive into that today.

So if you remember, there are three things that you can do when you feel an urge. I talked about

this in the podcast episode, resist, react, and allow. I really dive into those. But just a quick background,

if you didn't listen to that one, or just a quick reminder, is we can resist them, which

means pushing them away, pretending like they aren't there, or trying to like push our way

through them and muscle up all of our strength to get through them. We can react to them,

which is just giving in to them. And you know, you feel that urge and you're like, okay, hey,

yeah, let's go look at porn. Or you can allow them, which is this process of mindfully managing

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