You are listening to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast, episode 48, Pillars three, emotional regulation.

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 almost at 50 episodes. That's crazy. That's crazy to me. What? How did that happen?

We'll have to do something exciting for episode 50. I hope you guys are having a great week.

I am having a decent week. It's hard for me to kind of get back into the routine and the rhythm after Thanksgiving

for some reason.

I'm having a little bit of a difficult time.

But I'm feeling my emotions and sitting through all my urges to, I don't know, watch Netflix all day and not do anything.

And I'm here and I'm excited to be here.

So let's talk about the third pillar of overcoming pornography for good.

The third thing that we have to make sure that we have to really quit porn for good.

And the third pillar is this skill of emotional regulation.

So if you remember, unwanted porn use is about escape, not sexual appetite.

Right.

There's the wanted porn use where you use it intentionally for entertainment.

It's just something that you're choosing to do that you want in your life. And then there's the unwanted porn use, which is those of you that are listening to the podcast, probably while you're

here where maybe it's more compulsive or it's against your value system. You don't want it

to be a part of your life or you're doing it in secret and it's creating problems in your

relationship. So this unwanted porn use is about escape. It's not about sexual appetites. And I know

that might be a new idea for some of you if you haven't heard me say that before. And so let me explain what I mean by that and how this is true.

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