Unshamed & Unchained: Carving Space For Self-Healing & Habit Transformation

35. How to Handle Urges/Cravings

Jul 19, 2023

Learn how to interact with feelings in a more empowering way to quit a porn habit. Explore different approaches to dealing with emotions in relation to porn addiction. Discover the power of feeling in control and living in line with your values. Understand the importance of allowing and processing feelings and urges. Benefit from the support of a coach or group for personal transformation.

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

Interacting with Feelings in Relation to Porn Addiction

02:15 • 10min

The Power of Feeling In Control and Living in Line with Your Values

12:18 • 9min

Allowing and Processing Feelings and Urges

21:05 • 5min

The Power of Coaching and Support for Personal Transformation

26:02 • 2min

Common ways we have learned to interact with feelings that make it harder to quit a porn habit.

The difference between avoiding, resisting, and reacting to emotions.

What it means to allow and process a feeling (a skill required to sustainably quit pornography).

How to start identifying some of your less helpful patterns around feeling your feelings/urges.

Some questions to help you start identifying your learned patterns.

Sample thoughts that are helpful to think while feeling your feelings.

Signs you are resisting and urge vs allowing.

Along with some other favorite/recommended tools and resources.

Allowing and processing feelings/urges is something you can do.

This is a built in capability that has been trained out of us.

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Danny Poelman is a certified life coach who helps Doctor-Dads Dealing With: burnout, stress, trauma, unwanted habits, and/or strained relationships To heal, sustain, enrich, and maintain a high level of performance in ALL areas of your life (and change unwanted habits), WITHOUT adding more hustle/exhaustion to the equation.

Danny also has years of experience helping guys stop looking at pornography (and be happy about it) and make their real life so good that porn becomes irrelevant. He originally created this podcast to help those who are struggling with porn in their marriage and lives, and who know deep down there's something "more" for them if they just learn the skill of doing life porn free.