Overcome Pornography: Focusing on Yourself Is the Only Way

Happy Fathers’ Day yesterday! I hope it was a pleasant day with ample food and kind words. 

Before I forget, this week I have a free masterclass set up for you on Wednesday at 7:30 PM MT.  We are going to be learning how to drop the porn struggle.  Be sure to register at zachspafford.com/freecall

How to become an expert on yourself and why it matters if you want to leave pornography behind.

When I am...

This week we are going to discuss your cycle of avoidance and how to recognize what is going on for you around this cycle and a few things you can do to help remove yourself from the cycle. 

We’ve talked about experiential avoidance or buffering in episodes 5, 6, and 135.  I’ll link to those episodes in the show notes. 

Humans have a unique ability to problem-solve. From the very beginning of human existence, we have learned how to survive in the world. 

ONE OF...

Overcome Pornography: A Thank You Letter To Porn

This week is a really busy week.  YM camp up in Enterprise and speaking at a Youth Conference here in town.  

The more angst that we have toward pornography, we think is going to create the motivation to stay away. 

But what that is more likely doing is giving it power over you.  

I think we think that if we create a harsh relationship with something, it will banish that thing from our lives. 

Often,...

Overcome Pornography: What it takes to finally quit pornography

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1. Willingness to think differently about the problem

Episode 89 - Emotional Debtor and Episode 100 - Pornography is not THE problem 

1. An understanding of what is happening and why
2. Can’t run away, can’t push it out of your mind
3. You have to face it
4. Ask questions
5. Be willing to confront what it is objectively and curiously
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Overcome Pornography: How to Ruin a Night Out - Three Tips

How much power do you give the random strangers in Las Vegas. 

On Friday we had tickets to see Jim Gaffigan in Las Vegas. 

I was looking forward to it.  Darcy was, too. 

Unfortunately, Jim got Covid and the show was canceled at the last minute.  

We didn’t find out until after we were down there and had dinner. 

So, we decided to catch another show.  

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Overcome Pornography: 3 Secrets to Managing Emotions

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 *NOTE - This is a transcript of our conversation and may be more difficult to follow than the interview. 

So, we got an email about a podcast we did and I'm going to actually release the entire podcast as a bonus on Wednesday so you can listen to it. 

We did an interview with Heather Rackum at The LDS Life Coaches Podcast and it was a fantastic. I thought it was that fantastic podcast.

The point of the podcast was to change the conversation around pornography to help...

Overcoming pornography isn’t just pushing a new thought into your mind to supersede the thoughts that have naturally occurred.  

I think we’ve all heard the analogy of the stage of your mind and how we can become totally free from the plague of our unwanted thoughts by just changing what’s on the stage.  

While I think this is a worthy attempt to advise and assist those struggling with pornography or any other issue, it falls short in actual...

I’d like to take you back to General Conference a few weeks back. I loved listening to President Nelson as he spoke about how to keep spiritual momentum. 

If you don’t recall the talk, he offered 5 ways to Maintain positive spiritual momentum. 

The five were

1. Get on the covenant path and stay there.
2. Discover the joy of daily repentance.
3. Learn about God and how He works.
4. Seek and expect miracles.
5. End conflict in your personal life.

I’d like to talk about...