The Power of Connection in Overcoming Pornography, a Panel Discussion
Consider Before Consuming
Fight the New Drug
4.8 • 779 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Consider Before Consuming, we host a panel featuring four individuals deeply involved in the fight against pornography addiction. Chandler, Co-founder and CEO of Relay, shares his personal journey of overcoming pornography and how his experience led to creating a digital platform for recovery. Chris, a licensed professional counselor and certified sex addiction therapist, offers expert insights on the psychological effects of pornography and addiction recovery. Matthew and Dayne, both in recovery from long-term porn addiction, open up about their personal experiences, challenges, and victories in their healing journeys. Together, the panel discusses the power of connection in recovery, the importance of vulnerability, and how community plays a crucial role in breaking free from addiction.
Episode Resources
Article: How Porn Can Change the Brain
Article: Why the Opposite of Porn Addiction Isn’t Only Sobriety—It’s Real Human Connection
Podcast: Consider Before Consuming Ep. 93: Chandler
Book: The Body Keeps the Score
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| 0:00.0 | For today's conversation, we sit down with a panel of individuals who each have a unique |
| 0:15.2 | perspective on porn addiction recovery. |
| 0:17.5 | Our guests include Chandler, co-founder of Relay, Chris, a licensed counselor, and Matthew and Dane, who are both currently in recovery. Our guests include Chandler, co-founder of Relay, Chris, a licensed counselor, and |
| 0:22.6 | Matthew and Dane, who are both currently in recovery for porn addiction. The panel delves |
| 0:27.4 | into the relational, psychological, and emotional toll of addiction and the importance of |
| 0:32.2 | connection and support in overcoming addiction, giving hope that healing is possible. |
| 0:37.3 | With that, let's jump into the conversation. |
| 0:40.3 | We hope you enjoy this episode of Consider Before Consuming. |
| 0:47.6 | For our listeners, we have something kind of exciting and different today. |
| 0:51.4 | We've got a panel for amazing individuals here today to talk with you |
| 0:56.1 | a little bit about their experiences and the different expertise they have to speak to these issues. |
| 1:04.4 | So we're going to start with some introductions. Chandler, would you like to go first and introduce |
| 1:09.1 | yourself to our audience? Yeah, sure. So I'm Chandler. I'm the co go first and introduce yourself to our audience? |
| 1:17.3 | Yeah, sure. So I'm Chandler. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Relay Health. Relay is an organization that provides digital programs for people overcoming sexual addiction, including pornography. |
| 1:23.1 | I personally struggled with pornography for about 12 years. And, you know, ultimately through my own story, realized I couldn't do this alone. |
| 1:32.3 | I attended group for many years. |
| 1:35.0 | And just started to realize that so many people, I think, deal with this in isolation. |
| 1:41.1 | And it's such a hard thing to talk about, to know how to get support for. |
| 1:45.8 | And so it was actually a school project at first where I had an opportunity to build an app. |
| 1:51.5 | And I had just this thought of, you know, what if it were easier to find a community of other people who are trying to overcome pornography and make it less shameful, less scary to do that together. |
| 2:02.8 | And so ended up working on it. And then four years later, it's become our full-time focus and |
| 2:10.3 | something that I'm deeply passionate about trying to help people to overcome this together. |
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