Jay Stringer: Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Author, & Activist
Consider Before Consuming
Fight the New Drug
4.8 • 779 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Trigger warning: During this episode we discuss child sexual abuse. Listener discretion is advised.
This week’s interview is with Jay Stringer. Jay is a licensed mental health counselor from Seattle, WA, the author of Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing, and the creator of the Unwanted Sexual Behavior Self-Assessment that guides individuals to connect the dots between their story and their porn use. Listen to Jay and podcast host Garrett Jonsson discuss the nature behind porn addiction and how addressing the root of the issue can be an effective way to reaching long lasting freedom from it.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up people. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Garrett Johnson, and you're listening to Consider Before Consuming, a podcast by Fight the New Drug. |
| 0:20.4 | Before we jump into it, we want to let you know that during this conversation we discuss unwanted sexual behavior and child sexual abuse. Listener discretion is advised. Today's conversation is with Jay Stringer. Jay is a therapist, author, and speaker who helps individuals break free from unwanted sexual behavior. |
| 0:40.7 | We hope you enjoy this episode of Consider Before Consuming. |
| 0:45.8 | We want to welcome to the podcast, Jay Stringer. |
| 0:51.0 | Jay, if I miss something as I go over some of your accolades or some of your credentials, |
| 0:57.7 | just chime in and tell me other things that you're proud of that you've accomplished. |
| 1:03.0 | You meant, I know you're an author. Have you written several books or just the one unwanted? |
| 1:10.7 | Just unwanted. |
| 1:12.0 | So it's a funny quick. |
| 1:13.1 | There is also an English crime author by the name of Jay Stringer as well. |
| 1:17.8 | So I get that question quite a bit of at what point did you switch over from writing crime fiction to |
| 1:24.1 | addressing unwanted sexual behaviors. |
| 1:27.7 | So different authors. |
| 1:29.2 | Yeah, okay. |
| 1:30.9 | And then you're a researcher and licensed mental health counselor. |
| 1:38.2 | Yes. |
| 1:39.1 | Of those three, which are you most proud of, Jay? |
| 1:44.0 | I would say the licensed mental health counselor. |
| 1:48.9 | I mean, I'm just coming from doing an intensive with a client this morning. |
| 1:54.3 | And that's probably my favorite thing that I get to do is to kind of work with someone who feels like their |
| 2:03.6 | relationship to porn, their relationship to some type of sexual behavior has gotten them |
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