Sobriety Isn’t Recovery: Mindfulness, Choice, and Rewiring the Brain

Explore the Unhooked app: https://unhookedapp.co 🔵 Want to break free? Join Unhooked Academy now: https://www.unhookedacademy.com/ This week, I'm bringing back one of my favorite episodes because its message is just as relevant today as when I first recorded it. You've decided to quit porn. You're feeling motivated, you've set your goals, and you're ready to change. But then an urge hits, and suddenly all that determination feels a lot harder to hold on to. What do you actually do in that mo...

Explore the Unhooked app: https://unhookedapp.co 🔵 Want to break free? Join Unhooked Academy now: https://www.unhookedacademy.com/ What happens when something you turn to for pleasure slowly starts shaping the way you see yourself, your relationships, and the world around you? In this reshare from Wake Up with Marci, I sit down with Marci Hopkins to share a part of my own story that changed the direction of my life. On the outside, things were going well. I had good grades, friends, and plent...

Explore the Unhooked app: https://unhookedapp.co In this episode of Unhooked, I sit down with Ben Brown, host of The Shift podcast, to talk about his journey from years of compulsive sex, porn, validation-seeking, alcohol, and drugs into a life of recovery, purpose, and transformation. Ben shares what his life looked like before recovery, including the constant pursuit of women, escalating porn use, partying, and the feeling that he was becoming someone he thought he needed to be. We talk a...

🔵 Want to break free? Join Unhooked Academy now: https://www.unhookedacademy.com/ Explore the Unhooked app: https://unhookedapp.co What if stopping porn isn't actually the thing that creates lasting recovery? In this episode of Unhooked, I’m resharing a conversation I had on Sam’s Healing Podcast about porn addiction, recovery, and what it really takes to build lasting freedom. We talk about why porn itself is often not the underlying problem, but instead a way of escaping uncomfortable emot...

🔵 Want to break free? Join Unhooked Academy now: https://www.unhookedacademy.com/ Explore the Unhooked app: https://unhookedapp.co What does it actually take to heal after infidelity, and why does defensiveness make rebuilding trust so difficult? In this episode of Unhooked, I sit down with Sam from Sam's Healing Podcast to talk about infidelity, addiction, and what real recovery looks like after betrayal. Sam shares his own journey after an affair that turned his life upside down. We talk...