Let's Have a Positive Discussion about Voldemort...I Mean Pornography (part 1 of 2)

The Virtual Couch

Tony Overbay LMFT

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Tony shares his thoughts on how to best talk about a topic that carries with it so much fear, guilt, and shame...pornography! In part 1 of 2, Tony talks about the difference between guilt and shame, and why people turn to unhealthy coping mechanisms like pornography when they aren't feeling connected in other areas of life? Tony mentioned his interview with Russ Catanach on his podcast "Learning More," you can listen here https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/learning-more/id1551590647?i=1000547740442 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/learning-more/id1551590647?i=1000547740442)And Tony discusses the article "Let's Talk About Porn: Is it as Harmful as Society Says It Is?" https://fightthenewdrug.org/3-reasons-why-watching-porn-is-harmful/ (https://fightthenewdrug.org/3-reasons-why-watching-porn-is-harmful/)With the continuing "sheltering" rules spreading across the country, PLEASE do not think you can't continue or begin therapy now. http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch (http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch) can put you quickly in touch with licensed mental health professionals who can meet through text, email, or videoconference often as soon as 24-48 hours. And if you use the link http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch (http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch), you will receive 10% off your first month of services. Please make your mental health a priority, http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch (http://betterhelp.com/virtualcouch) offers affordable counseling, and they even have sliding scale options if your budget is tight.You can learn more about Tony's pornography recovery program, The Path Back, by visiting http://pathbackrecovery.com (http://pathbackrecovery.com/) And visit http://tonyoverbay.com (http://tonyoverbay.com/)and sign up to receive updates on upcoming programs and podcasts.Tony mentioned a product that he used to take out all of the "uh's" and "um's" that, in his words, "must be created by wizards and magic!" because it's that good! To learn more about Descript, click here https://descript.com?lmref=bSWcEQ (https://descript.com/?lmref=bSWcEQ)

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, come on and take a seat on the virtual couch.
0:22.8	Hey, everybody.
0:26.0	Welcome to episode 304 of the virtual couch.
0:27.1	I'm your host, Tony Overbay.
0:38.1	I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist, a certified mindful habit coach, a writer, a speaker, a husband, a father of four, and creator of the Pathback, which is an online pornography recovery program that is helping all kinds of people reclaim their lives from the harmful effects of turning to pornography as a coping mechanism.
0:42.4	And yes, if you read in the title today, we are going to be talking about pornography.
0:47.1	And I realize I've been doing this long enough that I need to update my references because my
0:52.0	first thought was that we are going to talk about Voldemort in the
0:55.6	world of Harry Potter. And we used to talk about Voldemort in a sense of he who must not be named.
1:02.5	And I feel like when I used to speak a lot about pornography, struggles with pornography,
1:07.3	pornography, pornography addiction, turning to pornography as an unhealthy coping mechanism.
1:10.5	A decade or more
1:11.5	ago. I could pull that reference out of my head and people really knew what it meant, but I think we've
1:15.3	talked about Voldemort enough that maybe that's a great way to say that we need to get to the
1:19.5	point where we're talking about pornography and the challenge is just as much now as
1:24.2	Voldemort doesn't carry very much weight. But again, I need to absolutely update those
1:28.9	references. So I want this episode today to feel more like we are just having a conversation.
1:34.8	And hopefully you can share this with someone. If you know of someone that's maybe struggling
1:39.0	with the challenges of pornography as well, that this is something that you can just sit back,
1:45.2	relax, and we're just going to have an open, honest conversation about this, because I get
1:49.2	to speak about this topic often. I have a book about this topic. I get interviewed about this.
1:54.6	And so it does need to be spoken of without this doom and gloom and cueing the ominous
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