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6. All or Nothing Thinking

Overcome Pornography for Good

What Equals Success?

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What equals success is the number of urges that you process. Remember Pavlov's dogs and how he trained them to not salivate at the sound of the bell? What equaled success for him was ringing the bell a hundred times, more times. And after ringing it a certain amount of times, they didn't want it anymore. So it's the same with you in your pornography habit. Doesn't matter the number of days. It's the number of times that you want pornography and you let yourself sit without wanting and you don't give it to yourself. We'll talk about some of these in ways to combat it, okay?

In today's episode we talk about all or nothing mindset. This is one of the most common things I see with my clients.

All or nothing mindset looks like, “I already messed up today, so I am not going to try for the rest of the day”, “I can’t start until i’m 100% sure I can do this”, and by counting progress as number of days without pornography instead of counting progress as number of urges processed.

In reality, quitting pornography is like learning any new skill. Failure does not keep us from quitting, it teaches us and helps us to become stronger as long as we learn from it.

You will love this episode.

Ready to commit to quitting pornography? I would love to be your coach. Visit this link to work with me: https://www.sarabrewer.com/workwithme

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