You are listening to the Overcome Pornography for Good podcast, episode 86. You are not your thoughts.

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.

I am excited for our topic today and it's a little bit like I was writing the outline while I was on a walk and just it's kind of like I just barfed up all of these

thoughts. And so I tried to organize it the best that I could, but just so much came to me.

I want to talk about thoughts today and I want to talk about how you are not your thoughts.

And this is so powerful if you can understand this. And we're just going to see where it goes and there might be a lot of

good things for you to take away from today. Before we hop in, I want to just say, hey, thank you

so much for those of you who have left me a review and rating on my podcast. Thank you. It really

helps me get my message out to people. I want to share just a few of them as a form of me saying thank you and to celebrate you guys and the changes that you're making in your life. So this one says I've been struggling with porn for over 45 years. For most of these years, I've been actively trying to find a way to put this behind me, whether it was spiritual, leadership, prayer, counseling, or recovery groups, I've had no

long-term and very few short-term success, let alone hope for the future. I am 23 sessions into

this podcast and I have a hope through your teachings. Thank you for that. Looking forward to

listening to all your sessions and then starting again and listening again. You're making a

difference. Yeah, thank you so much for sharing that.

And I don't know if you're 23 sessions in, I'm not sure if you have heard our interview with Quinn yet.

I love pointing people to his interview because he quit porn after struggling with 50 years.

It changed his life so much. He actually became a coach, did some coach training, and now he

works as a contract coach in my program. And right now he is doing support groups twice a month.

And he is such an amazing asset and has, oh my gosh, such a cool story. So make sure you listen to

his story if you haven't yet. There is so much hope for the future. Unfortunately, you know, we just haven't been taught a lot about pornography and like the best way to the most effective way to quit it. We've been told like you've heard me talk about so many times we've been taught to use all or nothing thinking to quit cold turkey

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