We need to deal with both habits and healing, both can occur simultaneously but should never be conflated nor confused. One is not necessarily the other, but each depend on the other.
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Recovery is on purpose, relapse is in purposelessness.
The stone we carelessly displace today is the rock we trip on tomorrow...
Sometimes we must change the battlefield before we can win the battle.
"Porn addiction can be starved to death, but when quitting, the addiction is willing to be fed by almost anything." - William.
You can outlast any urge.
Neither feed nor fight them, breathe through them until they pass.
Fire, Zeal, the Edge of the Blade!
I cannot compare myself with anyone else but me. Therefore, am I a better man than I was yesterday?
You can't conquer what you don't confront!
"When that door to porn is firmly shut, you can rest easy and just focus on living your life, largely unbothered by urges to use. But once you peek past that door even once, the addict sticks his foot against the doorjamb, making it very difficult to get it shut and locked again."
- Noah Church (courtesy of Empty Room)
It is enough that we are living the truth, even if we don't always divulge our secrets.
How to treat urges? Like a telemarketer from the lower brain...! Don't let them sell you, and don't pick up the phone and argue. Just ignore...!
It's helpful to help others on their journals. These habits are so selfish, so narcissistic, it's actually 'healing' to reach out and help others.
Let's walk together away from a life of selfishness, and self-harm (which is what PMO actually is...).
This is an interesting function, an alternative place to post, saving the journal itself for more 'intense' check-ins.
I'm in a weird place right now, but posting here helps. I know that the normalcy I seek is not to be found in old normals, but in the new, and in God.
Found an awesome background picture! Finally...
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