75. Healing Wounds from Sexual Shame

Overcome Pornography for Good

Sara Brewer

Christianity, Sexuality, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

5 • 679 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

So many people are hurting, wounded, and suffering in silence from sexual shame. These wounds are painful and harmful, and they aren’t necessary. If this is you, know that you deserve healing from that. In this week’s episode, I’m showing you how to become aware of the stories that are fueling your sexual shame, and how to start healing your relationship with your sexuality.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Overcome Pornography for Good Podcast, Episode 75, Healing Wounds from Sexual Shame.
0:08.9	Welcome to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast where we take a research-based, trauma-informed, and results-focused approach to quitting porn.
0:19.4	This approach has been revolutionary and changed thousands and thousands
0:23.6	of lives. I'm your host, Sarah Brewer. And you guys, welcome to the podcast episode this week.
0:31.9	I have had a couple conversations this week around this topic that I'm going to talk to you about today,
0:38.7	sexual shame and healing wounds from it. It came up quite a few times and I was just reminded
0:43.7	how prevalent this still is for so many people. And sometimes when I talk about things a lot,
0:50.3	I think, oh, well, I've already said that a lot. And then I realized, no, like, I say it a lot
0:55.7	to my clients. I say it in my emails. I say it in my podcast. But it needs to be said over and over and over
1:02.0	and over again and talked about over and over and over again and talked about differently over and
1:06.3	over and over again. Yeah, there are just a lot of people hurting and wounded from shame techniques and fear
1:14.5	techniques, especially around sexuality. And so if that is you, this podcast is dedicated to you.
1:22.8	And if you can think of someone in your life who might benefit from hearing this, I would encourage
1:28.6	you to send it to them. Many people are suffering in silence from sexual shame and trauma from
1:35.4	sexual shame. So we're going to talk about what that means and what that looks like.
1:38.6	But here's something that came to my mind. Okay. especially, it seems like especially in more conservative
1:44.6	religions, more people seem to struggle with pornography. At least you hear about it more, right?
1:51.6	More people are trying to quit and more people are having a more difficult time quitting.
1:55.6	And the reason for that isn't because we have a bunch of people who are over-sexualized.
2:03.0	The reason for that is that we have a bunch of people who are over-sexualized. The reason for that is that we have a bunch of people who have trauma from fear and shame techniques around sexuality. Fear and
2:10.5	shame techniques tend to lead to more compulsive porn use. And I've talked about that in depth and
2:16.9	why that is and the shame cycle and the
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