80: Childhood Trauma, Porn Addiction, Seeking Safety in Pleasure and Escape, and How to Quit Porn by Transforming Your Mindset & Lifestyle (on the New Paths Podcast with Dan Johnson)

Today's episode is from the New Paths podcast. Dan Johnson and I tag-team it again and talk porn addiction recovery, touching heavily on my personal porn addiction story. In today's episode, I'm going to dig in some to my childhood trauma, as well as sexual trauma, getting a bit vulnerable with you. I want to say from the get-go, I didn't experience severe trauma. My heart goes out to those who have, including many of my clients and friends in recovery. Rather, I grew up as a kid with a very sensitive and anxious mind. I was prone towards mental illness, obsessive compulsive behaviors, perfectionism, and I had a sexually traumatic experience when I was a kid that defined many of my views of sex and arousal. I also had other types of experiences in my childhood and youth that some people might see as, you know, normal! But with this episode, I really want to drive home how we shouldn't compare our trauma to one another. We shouldn't look at our past and say, "Well, yeah. I didn't really experience anything hard, so I don't think my pornography addiction could be driven by anything from my childhood." Look, I did that for many years. When it comes down to it though, we all carry stuff! So, I talk about some of that stuff with Dan, and get real about it. We talk about how I sought safety, pleasure and escape, not just through porn, but through other things like video games, food, television, etc. And we talk about how to quit porn using recovery mindset and lifestyle strategies. It's an extremely valuable episode, I think. Again, it was a huge privilege for me to be on. BUILD THE NO MORE PORN LIFESTYLE FREE WORKSHOP: The 8 Keys to Lose Your Desire for Porn FREE EBOOK: The 10 Tools to Conquer Porn Cravings Schedule a Free Consultation Intensive Porn Addiction Recovery Program Join My Email Newsletter $ Donate $ MORE EPISODES Emotional Drivers of Porn Addiction, Healing Trauma, Saving Your Marriage The 4 Root Causes of Porn Addiction How to Help Someone with a Porn Addiction in 3 Steps 8 Rules to Get You 3 Months Sober from Porn Stop Porn Cravings | 7 Tools to Overcome Fantasizing & Lust Habits Music I Use: https://www.bensound.com/free-music-for-videos License code: T8ZAU9PKBHGFSDE1 Support the show No More Desire