Unhooked: Breaking Porn Addiction Podcast Fearless Sexuality and Building Intimacy: Insights from a licensed marriage and family therapist, w/ Taylor Chambers
Aug 26, 2024
Taylor Chambers, a seasoned licensed marriage and family therapist, shares his insights on navigating unwanted pornography use with a holistic approach. He emphasizes the importance of mindfulness in building intimacy and fostering healthy relationships. The conversation touches on 'porn resilience' instead of striving for a porn-free life, advocating for intention and personal ethics in sexuality. Chambers also introduces the Porn Resilient Marriage Summit, aimed at helping couples rebuild trust and intimacy while confronting fears and challenges together.
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Relapse Triggered A New Approach
- Taylor describes his own relapse after five years sober and how it forced him to rethink recovery.
- He shifted from punitive tactics to integrating mindfulness, acceptance, and sexual health into therapy.
Holistic Framing Beats Narrow Detoxs
- Taylor emphasizes treating unwanted porn use within broader mental health and relational contexts.
- He blends behavioral work with mindfulness, ACT, and integration rather than narrow abstinence-only models.
Train Porn Resilience Not Just Abstinence
- Build resilience to pornography instead of aiming only for total avoidance or streaks.
- Train to encounter sexual triggers and return to baseline quickly rather than being undone by exposure.