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5. Shame Spiral

Overcome Pornography for Good

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The Importance of Buffers

Shame is an emotion that we don't like. And so you might try to avoid it. But if your main buffer is pornography, what are you probably going to default to doing? Viewing pornography to buffer from the shame that you're feeling. It's that temporary escape. How many of you have thought, oh, well, I already messed up and I kind of stink anyways. So I might as well just keep looking at it, right? That's that shame, shame trap because then what happens, we hop into that shame cycle again. As long as you believe the shame, you will feel stuck. Shame is not required for quitting pornography.

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